The K12 Lab designs professional development experiences that inspire educators and set them on a journey to creatively engage with their students, content, school, and community. Through experiences, resources, and tools, we are constantly developing ways to build the creative confidence of educators.

We teach teachers in the ways they are now being asked to teach – in immersive real-world projects and experiences where creative problem-solving matters most. Since doing beats talking about doing, we embrace jumping into new, invigorating experiences. Sure, there’s some initial discomfort, but the reward becomes clear as educators stretch beyond their comfort zone to pick up new skills and mindsets.

Designers on our team and in the K12 Lab network bring creative mindsets and a bias-to-action to tackle big challenges, make new experiments happen, and share our learning with our communities to catalyze change.

Click here to read about design challenges we’ve recently tackled.

The K12 Lab offers full quarter courses and pop out experiences for the Stanford community to explore the potential of design in the sectors of elementary and secondary education.