Sam Seidel’s appreciation for social justice started in a K-8 school named after Rosa Parks and Sonya Graham. It continued in high school at the historic and diverse Cambridge Rindge and Latin where ...

At a recent teaching conference in Richmond, Virginia, a session on “design thinking” in education drew a capacity crowd. Two middle-school teachers demonstrated how they had used the concept to plan ...

We had our assignment: Find ways to encourage lifelong learning. But we weren’t going to have a meeting. We weren’t going to form a committee. We weren’t going to write a grant. Instead, about 50 ...

Since she began work as co-director of Smith’s Design Thinking Initiative earlier this fall, Zaza Kabayadondo has been fielding numerous questions about the program from interested students, faculty ...

When she first signed up for the Introduction to Design Thinking class offered during this year’s Interterm, Harleen Kaur ’16 wasn’t sure what to expect. Kaur, who said she has taken mostly ...

What is “design thinking,” and why does it belong in America’s classrooms? Actually, as cognitive scientist Lindsay Portnoy explains in this post, many teachers are already using design thinking but ...

Design thinking is a classroom strategy that can facilitate 21 st century skills while allowing students to take action on topics they are passionate about says Sanjli Gidwaney, Director, Design for ...

Rich Lehrer knew that 3D printers could do more than spit out keychains and Yoda heads. In 2013, he led a group of eighth graders at the Brookwood School in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts that ...

The “d.school,” or Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University, to use the formal name that no one at Stanford ever does, sits in a newish building just behind the main Quad, ...

An approach that promised to democratize design may have done the opposite. When Kyle Cornforth first walked into IDEO’s San Francisco offices in 2011, she felt she had entered a whole new world. At ...