#AK12DC entering Phase II of the project

October 25, 2014

This was one of the first posts we shared on Google + to begin Phase I of Atlanta K12 Design Challenge (AK12DC).

https://plus.google.com/105871228677961620917/posts/JFsZ7L45x9U

We are now beginning Phase II of our project with eleven Atlanta-area schools, five public Fulton County schools and six independent schools. Each school has assembled a design team of 5-7 faculty members. Scott Sanchez, a Stanford d.school faculty member, is our global facilitator who oversees a team of four leaders, six mentors, and eleven design team facilitators.

On our website at http://atlantak12designchallenge.org you will find the stories of each school’s journey to uncover a prototype that addressed their design challenge. In Phase II, the eleven school’s design teams will continue to use design thinking as a process to gather more empathy and solve for their design challenge.

We have secured funding from local foundations to support our work. In addition, one of the foundations has hired an evaluator to work with our teams throughout Phase II so we can validate the work and uncover what impact it is having on a school’s ability to innovate its practice using design thinking.

Follow our website as the journey continues.

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#education and American Dream: Are we failing the test? | Center for Teaching

October 26, 2014

[…] We have to transform a society that has lost respect for the teaching profession. We scapegoat teachers for the problems in education and we build elaborate hierarchies that remove the decision-making further and further from educators in the classroom. Politicians and educational policy makers have never been very good at solving complex problems, like those that exist in our public educate system. We have to invest more in school leaders and teachers designing solutions to problems. A model for this work is being implemented in Atlanta K12 Design Challenge. See a recent post that highlights how design teams of teachers are using design thinking to solve for complex challenges in their schools. This project is a public-private partnership between Fulton County Schools and private schools in Atlanta (click here). […]

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