End Each Meeting With Five Outputs and the Child’s Next Week
Five-Output Meeting Record
Companion to The Child Should Never Experience the Organizational Chart · Updated 2026-09-30
Use this to leave a cross-functional student meeting with a written decision, an owner, and a review date. Worked as Tool 3 in “Seven Prototype Tools Put the Ideas to Work in Real Meetings”, in “Make the Seams Disappear for the Child”, with the five outputs explained in “A Meeting Should End With Decisions Someone Owns.”
Name the student or population and the specific question this meeting exists to answer.
- Student or population:
- The question this meeting exists to answer:
- Date and roles present:
The Five Outputs
| Output | Record here |
|---|---|
| Observation: What do we know from current evidence? | |
| Interpretation: What are the leading explanations, including any competing hypotheses and any disagreement? | |
| Decision: What will change as a result of this discussion? | |
| Ownership: Who will do what? List the action owners, and name the integration owner. | |
| Review: When, and against what evidence, will the decision be reconsidered? |
Close the Record
| Field | Record here |
|---|---|
| Who owns family communication after the meeting | |
| Uncertainty the team could not resolve (record it; do not smooth it into false consensus) | |
| What the child will experience differently as a direct result of this meeting |
If the last row is empty, the meeting produced conversation, not a change the child will notice.
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