Design Thinking: Problem Of Practice To Opportunity To Innovate

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 and the 17 UN SDGs)

Raising Community Voice To Design The Change We Want To BE In The World

This unique workshop invites all stakeholders of a learning community to come together and develop a shared understanding of their unique ecosystem and together work to:

• Collaboratively brainstorm a host of opportunities for innovation to enhance learning practice,

• Identify community partners working in this space seeking partners in connecting, engaging, and growing together,

• Explore and co-creating opportunities to effect positive change locally and globally, and

• Design a sustainable and generative plan for each stakeholder to continuously engage with one another in the learning space to continuously design the change they want to BE in the world.

Designed For Good: Designing Sustainable Solutions To Solve Tomorrow's Problems Today

Apply the Designed to Learn framework to unpack issues and design solutions 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