Bellwether Education Partners

Transforming education to ensure systematically marginalized young people achieve outcomes

Nonprofits
Academia and Education
Digital Services

Offering human-centered research and design methods

Disjointed, inefficient processes hindered resource accessibility and broad stakeholder appeal, while strict grant constraints added pressure to meet timelines. Fíonta partnered with Bellwether Education Partners (BEP) to design a Drupal 8 website toolkit, offering human-centered research and design methods for education policy professionals.

Challenges

Resource accessibility issues
Grant constraints and tight timelines
Need for broad stakeholder appeal

Solutions

Design Drupal 8 website toolkit
Enable efficient content entry
Enable custom content types
Create intuitive interface

Results

Increased
staff capacity and efficiency
Improved
access to tools
Enhanced
user experience

Project highlights

Efficient content entry

Early content entry training empowered the BEP team to contribute to content while development was underway, leading to timely and successful project completion.
Custom content types

Drupal’s flexibility allowed for custom content types, enabling the presentation of individual tools and brief descriptions on summary pages.
User-centric design

Fíonta focused on user needs, creating an intuitive interface that facilitates browsing, reading, and downloading valuable resources.

Project Summary

Fíonta collaborated closely with BEP to design a visually appealing and easy-to-navigate Drupal website. The content-first approach allows users to easily access and download tools while providing custom content types for individual tools and summary pages. Training sessions equipped the BEP team to enter content efficiently, ensuring a smooth sprint toward launch in just six months.

Outcomes

BEP now offers an additional authoritative, rich resource to its partners across the spectrum of public education organizations, policymakers, and providers. The toolkit can be easily and cost-effectively maintained by existing BEP resources.