design thinking

What’s the Big Deal? How Design Thinking

Transforms the Classroom & School

Menlo Park City School DistrictMenlo Park CA

Maurice Ghysels, SuperintendentAlicia Bowman, Director of Student Assessment, Program Evaluation & ResearchErik Burmeister, Middle School Principal

2013 ACSA Leadership SummitNovember 8, 2013 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

Purpose of our Presentation

What is Design Thinking?

“The Methodology commonly referred to as design thinking is a proven and

repeatable problem-solving protocol that any business or profession can employ to

achieve extraordinary results.”-Fast Company

What is Design Thinking?

http://feedroom.businessweek.com/index.jsp?fr_story=3def41e1b7396a87d623c3f13762217960729575

What is Design Thinking?

Opening Ourselves to Possibility

Design thinking is a mindset

It’s really not training it is doing.

With design thinking you….

Focus on the individual

Design as Delight

With design thinking you…

Observe to InspireGo and see things that are different than you.

With design thinking you…

Fail early

and

Fail often

How Do We Design Something Different?

Let’s get you designing…

A Hangout for Brenda and her friends

Design Thinking in Menlo Park

We apply a design thinking lens to most things in Menlo Park.

District Level

Empathy with the Community

Program LevelEmpathy and Inquiry with Teachers

School LevelDesigning for Delight

Classroom Level

Students as Design Thinkers

Learn more about Design ThinkingThe following websites provide resources around Design Thinking especially in the educational setting.

http://dschool.stanford.edu/http://www.k12lab.org/

http://www.ideo.com/work/toolkit-for-educators

http://createdu.org/ http://www.extremebydesignmovie.com/