Giving a voice to teacher-leaders, administrators, and students doing amazing things
By Aaron Roberts, Eric Chagala, and Allison Zmuda While the disruption to school has been difficult, disheartening, and exhausting, there also are flashes of possibility, imagination, and curiosity to design again rather than return to an old design that Read More …
By Eric Chagala, Aaron Roberts, and Allison Zmuda The new liberal art of design thinking is turning to the modality of impossibility… what many people call “impossible” may actually only be a limitation of imagination that can be overcome Read More …
Engagement When designing the Vista Innovation & Design Academy (VIDA), we sought to gather empathy from students and as a result made a poignant discovery: students, particularly those from poverty, felt that school was irrelevant to their lives. We endeavored Read More …
The reality of the modern world, especially in schools, is that we work in teams. Teachers may work in grade level teams, PLCs, vertical teams, cross-collaborative teams, and a million other configurations. Administrators also have teams: perhaps at the site Read More …
When my wife was seven months pregnant with our first child, we moved into my parents’ spare bedroom. We had just rented out our house, and we were six weeks away from closing escrow on our new home where we Read More …
Traveling is one of my favorite things to do. I enjoy the adventures of a new journey – both the joys, stresses, memories and the learning that happens every time I venture out into something new. On a recent journey, Read More …