Who you are:

You are a teacher/educator that wants to build student agency and future-ready skills.
You believe that working on community-connected, real-world problems in the classroom will help students make a difference in their community and in the world.
You recognize that in order for students to thrive, they require dedicated time to work on social-emotional skills like social awareness and responsible decision-making, and hard to nurture soft skills like creativity, problem-solving, and communication.
You're interested in igniting the critical-thinking and collaborative capacity of your students by bringing the design thinking process into your classroom.
You want to learn more about how to create and run student-led, human-centered Design Challenges.

What you'll learn in this course:

You'll dive deeply into the critical first three phases needed to create a student-led, human-centered Design Challenge;
- Discover
- Analyze & Define
- Generating Ideas
You'll experience a complete Design Cycle for yourself;
You'll learn about how other educators have approached and succeeded in this work;
You'll finish the course having practiced the skills and built the tools you need to prepare to run your OWN student Design Challenge;
And, you'll have been granted access to extensive curriculum toolkits that provide lesson plans that can be followed step-by-step to ensure success.

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