Inspiration in Universal Design Instead of meeting our mighty team of three East Bay School for Boys staff members for a space design day at their school, we started the morning at the universally designed Ed Roberts Campus in Berkeley for inspiration. After immersing in the space and noting both the visible and invisible elements(…)
Oftentimes in the design process, coming up with a “point of view” to guide design is challenging. However, focussing on a point of view allows designers to flare and come up with novel ideas to innovative. We spent time with the team at Prospect Sierra drilling to, defining and redefining their point of view of(…)
We know many schools and organizations are looking for help from design thinking experts to bring the process to their sites. While the K12 Lab Network works to engage with as many of these groups as possible, we can’t always meet the need! If you are looking for long-term consulting related to bringing design thinking(…)
Storytelling often comes into play at the end of the design thinking process – where teams distill ideas to communicate what they created. To flip that assumption, we brought together our d.home team educators, as well as collaborators across the d.school, for their 4th and final workshop as a cohort to engage in a day(…)
Know somebody you want to introduce to design thinking? Unable to attend a d.school workshop but are interested in learning more about the process? Join us for a design thinking crash course on Tuesday, May 19th! This experience will be lead by our d.school Experience Assistants, and will give you the opportunity to immerse yourself in the process by(…)
In collaboration with Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE) and School Retool we are pleased to celebrate the release of Transforming Schools Using Project-Based Learning, Performance Assessment, and Common Core Standards by Bob Lenz, Justin Wells, and Sally Kingston. Their book draws on the example of the Envision Education schools, as well as(…)
Summer conjures many things… Free time, sunshine, beach weather, ice cream… and some amazing workshop opportunities! OUR WORKSHOP Introduction to Design Thinking workshop with the d.school’s K12 Lb Network Are you an educator interested in exploring design thinking? Apply here for our Summer Introduction to Design Thinking workshop. You’ll have the opportunity to build your(…)
We considered feedback seriously before designing our third, of four, d.home Team experiences in our d.home Team series. We looked at videos, interview notes, feedback surveys and “next step” post-its to try to understand what was resonating with our educators from our past experiences together and what was not. It was clear from the data(…)
The K12 Network spent an exciting afternoon diving into design thinking with the staff of Bayside STEM on February 18th. The design team at Bayside STEM wanted to get all teachers and staff on the same design thinking page before several different new school initiatives launched, so we got right to work. We did a(…)
We started February 9th in a small room off the East Palo Alto Phoenix Academy Cafeteria (EPAPA). EPAPA deeply supports and cares for its students, making the culture feel more like a family than a school. We spent the day with a powerful team of five EPAPA educators, ranging from the Lead Education Specialist who(…)
