In this fast-paced 1-hour professional development we use the author’s proprietary “Paper to Plan” protocol as we “Prepare to Pivot” this fall.

• Educators explore the foundational concepts of design thinking that seamlessly translate to digital spaces and foster essential skills of communication, collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking in your students.

• An extension to essential teacher guided instruction, students learn to co-create meaningful solutions to today’s most pressing issues by collaborating with their peers, honing their communication skills, flexing their latent creativity, and unleashing their critical thinking.

• Through this unique and proprietary protocol useful for both educators and their students, learners become more self-regulated, metacognitively aware, and see themselves as meaning makers in the process of learning as their epistemic beliefs evolve.

• Grounded in my book Designed To Learn: Using Design Thinking to Bring Purpose and Passion To The Classroom, you’ll learn to implement the process of design thinking across the curriculum and throughout the district,

• Fuel more empowered learners and more purposeful learning,

• Identify, research, and ideate solutions to solve real-world problems with purpose and passion, and

• Collaborate to design solutions for a sustainable future (aligned to: Designed for Good: Design Thinking Solutions for a Sustainable Future)

• Grounded in my book Designed To Learn: Using Design Thinking to Bring Purpose and Passion To The Classroom, you’ll learn to implement the process of design thinking across the curriculum and throughout the district,

• Fuel more empowered learners and more purposeful learning,

• Identify, research, and ideate solutions to solve real-world problems with purpose and passion, and

• Collaborate to design solutions for a sustainable future (aligned to: Designed for Good: Design Thinking Solutions for a Sustainable Future)

From Paper to Plan: Co-creating impactful and human-centered experiential learning through games

• Active inquiry into the games we loved as kids and the games our kids love today,

• See games as an opportunity for growth, learning, and enhanced discovery,

• Learn how the mechanics of game play align to the mechanics of learning,

• Create, test, and emerge with a working prototype of a completely unique game that will inspire, engage, and delight your learners!

Designed for Good: Designing Sustainable Solutions to Solve Tomorrow's Problems Today

• Using the lens of design thinking to unpack issues unique to each learning environment,

• Identify the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) achieved by creating solutions for local problems

• Mapping local design to global impact

• As a class, cohort, or community communicate to ideate a design through iteration, prototyping, testing, and continued reflection