We are pleased to announce the dates of the 6th Annual Summer Workshop for K-12 Educators here at the d.school. Participants from the past five seasons have helped develop a network of amazing teachers and administrators who are using design thinking to improve education. We very much look forward engaging with a new cohort of…
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The d.school is announcing an important transition in our family. Rich Crandall, director of our K-12 Lab since 2008, is joining the team at NewSchools Venture Fund as Associate Partner. A Teach for America alum with an MBA from Stanford, Rich spent four years at the d.school focused on spreading design thinking amongst K-12 educators…
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The K-12 Lab’s ongoing efforts are focused on engaging students and educators alike in design thinking, a methodology that can reunite families, solve community crises, and empower a generation. Because the K-12 Lab believes that students are more engaged and achieve greater learning when they have the opportunity to be innovative, creative, and collaborative, teachers…
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The girl in the picture to the right is part of a growing design thinking movement in India. Although her school is in a Mumbai slum, she took part in India’s first design for social change contest. Using a simple design-thinking framework, she worked with her classmates to develop lesson plans to teach the parents…
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The Design for Giving Contest is motivating schools across India to reimagine the act of giving. Taking place from August 15th to Oct 15th, the contest involves more than 30,000 schools across India. School children will design and implement solutions to help people in need. The goal of this movement is to help children realize that they…
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The d.school’s K-12 Lab team is abuzz with learnings from the recent DT2Schools Workshop. The workshop brought together teachers and administrators from 8 different schools, including two teachers from the Lab’s international partner Riverside School who came all the way from India. In addition to schools, representatives from Teach for America’s curriculum design team also…
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Take a look over at Stanford’s Inter*Action publication, a quarterly that focuses on Stanford’s “myriad efforts in multidisciplinary research and teaching.” The Winter 2008 issue has a great story on the Nueva School Innovation Lab project taken on by the K-12 Lab this past summer. And in general, Inter*Action always has the kinds of stories…
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The d.school’s K-12 Learning Lab has won their first grant to bring design thinking into the public schools! The $75k grant will fund pilot work with East Palo Alto Academy Elementary School (EPAAES) and lay the groundwork for engaging schools nationwide. Lab Director Susie Wise, School of Education Professor Shelley Goldman, and d.school Interim Faculty…
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Course: Designing to Learn Units: 2-4 Tentative Time: Tuesdays 9:30-10:50 The d.school’s K-12 Lab has organized their ongoing endeavors at the Nueva School and East Palo Alto Academy into a small course for the Winter Quarter, and are looking for Stanford students with an interest in K-12 design thinking education who haven’t yet heard about…
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The d.school’s first major venture in the world of K-12 education opened this week at the Nueva School in Hillsborough, CA. Called the Innovation Lab, the project is a 3500 square foot space where students in the K-8 school will develop their design thinking skills. The project cycle was rapid with needfinding in April and…
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