1. What’s the Big Deal?
How Design Thinking
Transforms the Classroom & School
2013 ACSA Leadership Summit
November 8, 2013 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Menlo Park City School District
Menlo Park CA
Maurice Ghysels, Superintendent
Alicia Bowman, Director of Student Assessment, Program Evaluation & Research
Erik Burmeister, Middle School Principal

2. Purpose of our Presentation

3. What is Design Thinking?
“The Methodology commonly referred to
as design thinking is a proven and
repeatable problem-solving protocol that
any business or profession can employ to
achieve extraordinary results.”
-Fast Company

4. What is Design Thinking?
http://feedroom.businessweek.com/index.jsp?fr_story
=3def41e1b7396a87d623c3f13762217960729575

5. What is Design Thinking?

6. Opening Ourselves to Possibility
Design thinking is a mindset
It’s really not training
it is doing.

7. With design thinking you….
Focus on the individual
Design as Delight

8. With design thinking you…
Observe to Inspire
Go and see things that are different than you.

9. With design thinking you…
Fail early
and
Fail often

10. How Do We Design Something
Different?

11. Let’s get you designing…
A Hangout for Brenda
and her friends

12. Design Thinking in Menlo Park
We apply a design thinking lens to most things
in Menlo Park.

13. District Level
Empathy
with the
Community

14. Program Level
Empathy and Inquiry with Teachers

15. School Level
Designing for Delight

16. Classroom Level
Students as Design Thinkers

17. Learn more about Design Thinking
The following websites provide resources around
Design Thinking especially in the educational setting.
http://dschool.stanford.edu/
http://www.k12lab.org/
http://www.ideo.com/work/toolkit-foreducators
http://createdu.org/
http://www.extremebydesignmovie.com/