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Design Thinking Workshop: August 10-12

There are still spaces available at this summer’s Design Thinking Summer Institute for teachers and administrators at Prospect Sierra School on the East Bay. The three-day course is being led by veterans of the Stanford d.school–an alum and a former lecturer with many years of K-12 teaching under their belts. If you’re curious about design [...]

Telling stories

As teachers, school leaders, and parents, the stories we tell exert a profound influence on our students, communities, and children. What matters is not only what the stories are about, but how we tell them. This is point of a nice little essay by Richard Gamble over at the Front Porch Republic. He quotes Wendell [...]

Getting unstuck: design thinking

So what do you do, when you’re working project, and you just get stuck? Here’s what design thinking will advise: Don’t just stay there, and try to think it through, or analyze it to death. Think: “Who can I go to?” and “What can I try?” This was one of the gems from George Kemble’s [...]