design thinking
5 Emerging Trends in Project-Based Learning
By: Rosie Clayton. How will innovative strategies such as internship integration and games-based learning impact the future of project-based learning? Here are five examples of schools pushing boundaries of PBL.
Projects, Design Thinking and SEL Done Well at Milton Hershey School
Milton Hershey School is dedicated to providing students innovative learning experiences that include design thinking, project-based learning and STEAM, as well as the inclusion of social and emotional learning.
Teaching Empathy Through Place-Based Education
By: Jenny Pieratt. While searching for a way to teach my students both empathy and content, I discovered the solution through place-based learning as we interacted, engaged and connected with our community.
Beginnings Matter: Start The School Year Off Right
As you begin a new school year, what is the message you really want to send? Let these first lessons and encounters be the beginning of the change you want to see in the classroom and in your profession.
How Stanford Took a Cue from Our School in Africa…and Everybody Won
By: Ryan Findley. Understanding the need to contextualize design thinking for the African context, the African Leadership Academy pioneered the self and cultural awareness design thinking process in African schools.
Innovative Urban Education in Denver
If we are going to break the effects of generational poverty and bring high quality learning opportunities to every person on the planet, we have to invest in urban education innovation. Here are several Denver innovation schools we recently visited.
Why School System Leaders Need to be Systems Thinkers
By: Jason Riberio. Part of a difficulty that education organizations experience is that they are rarely viewed as systems and thus not treated as such. What if systems thinking could help education stakeholders understand just how interconnected the work we do is (or could be)?
Things Are Getting Complex, Use Design Thinking to Simplify
A thoughtful design thinking process uncovers individual and team biases, builds mental models and change theories–the team gains appreciation for systems work and how impact might be produced and scaled.
Radical Personalization + Knowledge in Action at d.Tech High
Design Tech High School, or “d.Tech” is using design principles to personalize the learning experience for high school students in San Mateo, California. The school, the only charter school in San Mateo Union High School District, is designed to help young people prepare for dramatic, fast, unpredictable change .
Design Thinking in Action
By Michael Niehoff: Design thinking helps create future innovators and breakthrough thinkers. Michael shares a few examples of what it can look like at the high school and elementary level.