• 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 empowered learners and more purposeful learning, and

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

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

• Unpack the unique value proposition of your community

• Learn how to transform pain points into opportunities to innovate

• Leverage the many voices in your space to uncover a single unifying vision for growth

• Emerge with a clear vision of your what it takes to take your concept to creation by defining the process, timing, and accountability to achieve your goals

• Understanding the unique ecosystem of each learning community

• Identifying community partners looking to connect, engage, and grow together

• Researching opportunities to learn and explore locally and globally

• Design a plan to engage each stakeholder in designing the change they want to see in the world

• Learn the cognitive science underlying playful learning

• Develop strategies to harness powerful learning strategies today through games and play

• Invite learners to collaborate in designing their own multimodal learning experiences

• Emerge with tips, tools, and powerful practices for using games for learning today where the assessment IS the game, and return the joy and fun to learning

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!

• Unpack the cognitive science underlying engagement, passion, and purposeful learning,

• Apply concrete methods to enhance learning in your unique learning community.

• Deepen learning and increase engagement amongst colleagues and learners,

• Develop interdisciplinary collaborations across the building and throughout the community, and

• Discover the power of student-led assessment across the curriculum.

• Delineate myths from reality in the way assessment supports and enhances learning

• Unlock the power of authentic assessment to extend and accelerate growth and engagement

• Empower learners through a focus on choice, voice, and community

• Emerge with powerful tools to measure what matters and learn to take, use, and calibrate feedback to fuel growth

• Discover novel techniques for creating, and applying formative assessment,

• Learn how to use the results of formative assessment to drive impactful instruction, and

• Elevate student voice as an integral role in the process of ongoing learning.

• Explore the most innovative emerging technologies,

• Extend learning beyond the walls of the classroom,

• Learn how to implement these tools seamlessly throughout the curriculum.