Participant Co-Analysis
Inviting participants back to help interpret the patterns from their own interviews.
Participant co-analysis
Inviting participants back to interpret their own data is one of the best follow-ups to a listening session. The Polaris report gives you our read on the conversations. A co-analysis session gives participants theirs.
It runs separately from the Polaris report. Districts and youth organizations use these sessions to turn what came up in the interviews into things the school can act on. The two readings often line up. When they don't, that gap is usually the most useful thing in the room.
Free resources
The Polaris Education library at pd.humanrestorationproject.org includes a set of co-analysis resources for any team to use and adapt:
- Facilitation guides for running a co-analysis session with participants.
- Sharing tools that let districts pull quotes and excerpts from their interviews with PII redacted, so people can read the material safely and generate their own themes from it.
- Templates and prompts for turning what the group surfaces into concrete next steps the organization can commit to.
Want our team to lead the session?
The Polaris Education team can run the co-analysis for you, on-site or over video. We prepare the redacted excerpts, lead the group through finding its own themes, and leave you with a written list of the next steps the group proposed.
This is a paid add-on. Your staff can take part alongside participants instead of running the room. Contact us with your group size and dates to set one up.