Kevin Day to present at Design Thinking Summit In New York
On April 25, 2017, All Saints’ Day School teacher Kevin Day will be co-presenting a design thinking and STEM-based unit at the 100Kin10 Annual Summit at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City. Entitled “The Bridges We Build Together: Cultivating STEMpathy for Syrian Refugees”, this collaborative project between All Saints’ teachers Kevin Day, Sara Brown, and Kim Raisbeck seeks to build bridges between active and authentic STEM exploration, 21st-century skill-building, and how to honor and address the material reality of the refugee experience in Zaatari Camp in Jordan.
His project was selected as a finalist in a recent #MindblowingSTEM collaboration hosted by the Teachers’ Guild. Kevin and Sara are currently co-teaching this unit to the 8th grade class.
Kevin is also collaborating with teachers and students at High Tech High in San Diego, towards co-presenting on local and global refugee issues at the FutureNOW! Edu Conference taking place in San Diego in April 27-29, 2017. They hope to invite participating educators to explore tools and resources for engaging the deep empathy work that fuels successful design thinking-based learning, both inside and outside of the classroom, as well as invite more teachers and students to explore future cross-school learning collaborations.
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To learn more about the project, follow this link: https://collaborate.teachersguild.org/challenge/active-stem/ideate/cardboard-challenges-and-cardboard-challenges-school-wide-cardboard-challenge-meets-syrian-refugee-crisis
100Kin10 is a national network committed to solving one of our country’s most pressing challenges– giving kids a great STEM education– by adding 100,000 more, excellent STEM teachers to America’s classrooms by 2021. https://100kin10.org/
The Teachers Guild believes teachers are the innovators education has been waiting for. In the next three years, their goal is to bring teachers together to solve 30 of the biggest challenges in education today. Every teacher has an inner designer, and The Teachers Guild uses design thinking to create better solutions. They were founded by IDEO, a global leader in user-based design and design thinking-based models of innovation.
The FutureNOW! Conference brings together educators and school partners who are re-imagining learning experiences in their classrooms, schools, and districts. The goal of the conference is to experience these innovations first-hand with active practitioners. Participants engage in a variety of professional learning and collaborative networking opportunities and we encourage every participant to share, connect, and collaborate with attendees and presenters.
The Third Annual FutureNOW! Conference has expanded this year into a multi-day experience. The Conference is on Saturday, April 29th, 2017. Pre-Conference Workshop learning opportunities are offered Thursday, April 27th – Friday, April 28th. https://futurenowedu.net/
The Third Annual FutureNOW! Conference has expanded this year into a multi-day experience. The Conference is on Saturday, April 29th, 2017. Pre-Conference Workshop learning opportunities are offered Thursday, April 27th – Friday, April 28th. https://futurenowedu.net/
High Tech High, San Diego, features an integrated network of thirteen charter schools serving approximately 5,300 students in grades K-12 across three campuses. The HTH organization also includes a comprehensive adult learning environment including a Teacher Credentialing Program and the High Tech High Graduate School of Education, offering professional development opportunities serving national and international educators. Of note, the high school is featured prominently in Tony Wagner’s award-winning documentary, Most Likely To Succeed http//:www.hightechhigh.org.
All Saints Day School
All Saints Day School, in Carmel, CA, is the only independent, private school on the Monterey Peninsula that focuses solely on educating students in Preschool through Grade 8, and has been doing so, with a reputation for excellence, since 1961.
NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATION POLICY
All Saints Day School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin, or sex in the administration of its educational and employment policies, admissions policies, financial aid programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.
NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATION POLICY
All Saints Day School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin, or sex in the administration of its educational and employment policies, admissions policies, financial aid programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.