CEI Showcase '16

Revamp your approach to learning and teaching with the design thinking process! Step away from traditional educational models and constraints to find answers to everyday challenges. First, explore each stage of design thinking and become familiar with key design thinking mindsets. Then adopt a beginner’s mindset to your specific classroom obstacles: Look for answers outside of education to see how other industries tackle similar challenges.

Across the nation, design thinking is being used by educators, school and district leaders, and school designers as a powerful process and set of tools that ignite user-centered innovation in learning and teaching for students and educators. Participants will be guided through each stage of the design thinking process and will introduce and model key design thinking mindsets. To model approaching challenges with a “beginners mindset,” the design challenge we will explore will come from outside of education, which will allow participant to fully engage with the new process and skills without being harnessed to the current constraints.

Empathy building pushes problem solvers to better understand root causes, resulting in more thoughtful innovation and change efforts. Hacking is an approach to change that is founded on three mindsets: bias to action, failing forward to learn, and starting small. <br /> Gain tangible skills for using empathy and hacking to support personalized learning, innovation, and school transformation. Apply these design thinking tools to solve sticky challenges and develop healthier students and classrooms.

Co-facilitated by CEI’s SpaceLab team and alumni from Colorado’s first cohort of School Retool, an innovative fellowship for school leaders.