Design is the rendering of intent.
Full of examples of Design Thinking in action in schools across the country, Design Thinking for School Leaders can help you guide your School to the forefront of the new Design + education movement, one That will move traditional education into the modern world and drive the future of learning..
Captures the hearts and minds of a community.
Storyteller.
Gets things done and creates rapid learning cycles for teams.
Producer.
Challenges the way things are always done.
Rule Breaker.
Designs and curates learning experiences.
Experience Architect.
Shifts from problem solving to problem finding.
Gallagher and Thordarson detail Five specific Roles to help you identify opportunities for positively impacting students, teachers, districts, parents, and the community: Opportunity Seeker.
You\'ll learn how viewing the world through a more empathetic lens--a critical first step on the path to becoming a design-inspired leader--can raise your awareness of the uniqueness of your teachers and students and prompt you to question the ways in which they experience your school.
Leaders can shift from accidental designers to design-inspired leaders, acting with greater intention and achieving greater impact.
Design Thinking for School Leaders explores the changing landscape of leadership and offers practical ways to reframe the role of School leader using Design Thinking, one step at a time.
Alyssa Gallagher and Kami Thordarson, widely recognized experts on Design Thinking, educational leadership, and innovative strategies, call this new perspective design-inspired leadership--one of the most powerful ways to Ignite Positive Change and address education challenges using the same Design and innovation principles That have been so successful in private industry.
What if education leaders approached their work with the perspective of a designer? This new perspective of seeing the world differently is desperately needed in schools and begins with School leadership.
Design is the rendering of intent
