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Schools as Startups and Students as Founders. 3 Strategies For Student to Design Their Future

Imagine if every student introduced themselves by saying: Hi! I’m ____ and I’m working on _____. Instead of: Hi I’m a freshman and I go...

Urgent Optimism: How to Give Your Team the Skills to be Futurists

2022 is quickly coming to a close. As we begin a new school year we have two options. Option 1: We keep doing what we’ve always been...

What is Design Thinking in Education?

So you have heard about design thinking and are curious to see how you might use it. Or perhaps you have used it before and you are...

Five Reflections From A Decade of Using Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn as a Professional

2012. That was the year I began to explore social media as a professional. I wish I could say it was curiosity. On the contrary. I was...

Part One: Back to the Basics – Preparing Students in Higher Education with Digital Literacy Sk

From adults to young children, the past two years have challenged us to live, work, and learn in different ways. For the past decade...

How Leaders Use Design Sprints to Collaborate, Solve Problems and Make Decisions

If you are in a role where you make decisions and solve problems then you’ll be interested in design sprints. In 2019 I was invited to...

From Idea to Impact: 3 Tools to Accelerate Innovation, Collaboration and Trust with Teams

When I interviewed Erik Brynjolfsson on the Designing Schools podcast he shared, “Don’t just look at what’s being done and think how can...

Why I Turned My Dissertation into a Documentary. An Invitation to the Live Launch

In 2018 I began the Global Executive EdD program at the University of Southern California. In many ways it was the greatest empathy...

Creating a Culture of Collaboration and Trust at Design39

I had the privilege of reflecting on this topic and sharing thoughts with Devin Vodicka, author of Learner-Centered Education and CEO of...

Reinventing Education for The Second Machine Age

This past year we all experienced the rapid acceleration of change in just about every area of our lives. From remote work to the news,...