Hold a final work team meeting.

Bring everyone who had some role in the focus group research together to celebrate your monumental accomplishment and reflect back on the entire effort. Team members should take this opportunity to exchange learning about the focus group process, discuss what worked and what did not work, and to talk about needed changes for the next time you conduct focus group research.

Also use this meeting to talk about where you go from here. What are you going to do with the results? How will the students who participated in the focus groups know that you heard them and are taking action? How will the rest of the school community learn about the findings and the resulting policy or strategy changes?

See the next step, "Put results to work," for examples of changes made at Jessamine County Public Schools as a result of the student focus group

Next: Put the results to work.