design thinking
Reframe Problems as Opportunities to be Creative
By: Elsa Randolph. We LOVE teacher bloggers. Especially those who are student-centered, innovative, and driven in everything they do. Moss Pike is one of those teachers.
SXSWedu: Design Thinking, Learning, and Teaching
By: Moss Pike. Thanks to the mutual exchange of ideas at SXSWedu, more educators are starting to embrace the possibilities and new thinking that entrepreneurs can add to the conversation, in taking on more of a design mindset.
Design Thinking Course Trains Future EdLeaders
Reflecting on our visit to UW’s Danforth Program that working to transform principal leadership training to create Deeper Learning experiences for emerging EdLeaders.
Design Thinking: A Human-Centered Approach to Innovation in Education
By: Sandy Speicher. We tend to think first about the needs of the system and create solutions from there. But what if we looked first to the needs of people, and then designed ways the system could meet its goals by serving these needs? This is the heart of how design thinking gets to innovative solutions.
Improvement vs. Innovation
Improvement is playing for singles and doubles. Innovation in swinging for the fences. EdLeaders need to lead community conversations that create the right balance of the two.
Design Thinking in Schools: An Emerging Movement Building Creative Confidence in our Youth
As we help today’s students build their foundation of core academic knowledge and skills, we also need to look at the ways we are helping our youth build their confidence in their abilities to create. From name badges to state economies, we need our youth to know that they can empathically and intelligently shape the world. We need to help them develop the tools to create change.
How Schools Boost Student Performance through Architectural Design
The shift from concrete and brick to wood and glass, from overhead lights to natural lighting, from carpeted floors to hardwood, and from enclosed, square rooms to open spaces with curves isn’t just a matter of aesthetics. It’s about creating a better educational environment.
Going to Summer Camp to Create a New School
Christine Ortiz has been been asked many times, “How do you start a school?” She is the person to ask because Christine has actually founded a school and feels confident others can do it too.