Taking Design Thinking to School How the Technology of Design Can Transform Teachers, Learners, and Classrooms

Foreword by Bernard Roth

SECTION I. DESIGN THINKING AND ITS EMERGENCE IN K-12 EDUCATION

Chapter 1. Taking Design Thinking to School: How the Technology of Design Can Transform Teachers, Learners, and Classrooms

Shelley Goldman and Zaza Kabayadondo

Chapter 2. The Culture of Practice: Design-Based Teaching and Learning

Meredith Davis and Deborah Littlejohn

Chapter 3. A Praxis Model for Design Thinking: Catalyzing Life Readiness

Christelle Estrada and Shelley Goldman

SECTION II. YOUNG DESIGNERS—K-12 STUDENTS TAKE ON DESIGN THINKING

Chapter 4. Design Partners in Schools: Encouraging Design Thinking Through Cooperative Inquiry

Mona Leigh Guha, Brenna McNally and Jerry Alan Fails

Chapter 5. Taking Design Thinking to East, West, and Southern Africa: Key Lessons from Global Minimum’s Student Innovation Programs

Desmond Mitchell and Mathias Esmann

Chapter 6. Capturing Middle School Students' Understandings of Design Thinking

Shelley Goldman, Molly B. Zielezinski, Tanner Vea, Stephanie Bachas-Daunert, Zaza Kabayadondo

Chapter 7. Adapting the User-Centered Design Framework for K-12 Education: The Riverside School Case Study

Mohanram Gudipati and Kiran Bir Sethi

SECTION III. DESIGN THINKING AS A CATALYST FOR REIMAGINING EDUCATION

Chapter 8. Build It In from the Start: A New School’s Journey to Embrace Design Thinking

Susie Wise

Chapter 9. ResponsiveDesign: Scaling out to transform educational systems, structures and cultures

Ralph Cordova, Ann Taylor, Phyllis Balcerzak, Michelle Whitacre and Jeffery Hudson

Chapter 10. Teachers as Designers of Context-Adaptive Learning Experience

Zanette Johnson

Chapter 11. To Succeed, Failure Must Be An Option

David Kwek

Chapter 12. Empathy in STEM Education

Kathy Liu Sun

SECTION IV. INSPIRING TEACHING: DESIGN THINKING IN THE CLASSROOM

Chapter 13. Professional Development That Bridges the Gap Between Workshop and Classroom Through Disciplined Improvisation

Jennifer Knudsen and Nicole Schectman

Chapter 14. The Materiality of Design in E-Textiles

Verily Tan, Anna Kuene, and Kylie Peppler

Chapter 15. Finding Your Fit: Empathy, Authenticity, and Ambiguity in the Design Thinking Classroom

Molly B. Zielezinski

Chapter 16. Analyzing Materials in Order to Find Design Opportunities for the Classroom

Charlie Cox, Xorman Apedoe, Eli Silk, and Christian Schunn

Chapter 17. Developing Powerful, Portable Design Thinking: The Innovators’ Compass

Ela Ben-Ur

Biography

Shelley Goldman is Professor of Education, Learning Sciences, and Technology Design at Stanford University.

Zaza Kabayadondo is Co-director of the Design Thinking Initiative at Smith College, a pilot program to reimagine liberal arts education.

"Building and sustaining the creative confidence of children is our most important work. Goldman and　Kabayadondo's new book will inspire educators to take up design thinking and help it thrive in classrooms across the country."

--David Kelley, founder IDEO and founder Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school)　

"Taking Design Thinking to School is an excellent envisioning of what school could be. Design thinking is a mindset, and education that takes design thinking seriously can foster habits of empathy, action-oriented problem solving, persistence and knowing when to quit, teamwork, effective communication, and more. And yes, such capabilities and habits can be instilled while also acquiring deep understanding of disciplinary content. This book helps us imagine how to make such an educational approach work."

--Janet Kolodner, Chief Learning Scientist, The Concord Consortium and Regents’ Professor Emerita, Georgia Inst. of Technology

"A must read. Experts Goldman and Kabayadondo are the first to tackle a pervasive problem that every instructor faces: teaching design thinking which often clashes with institutional values and structures. This landmark book is full of rich case studies and actionable insights for anyone who cares about teaching design thinking in K-12 and beyond."

--Elizabeth Gerber, Northwestern professor and founder of Design for America