We started to interview educators in Baltimore City, in order to learn from their stories and perspectives. 2/19 Interviewed Danna Thomas, Founder of Happy Teacher Revolution 2/21 Talked with teachers from Anne Arundel County Public Schools
Champion call & Reframe the HMW questions
February 15 - Joined the DFC USA's Champion meetingFebruary 19 - Met with project supervisor, Becky!Jade Shih February 15th was our second time to join the Design for Change USA's Champion online meeting. The conversation was led by Sanjli, the founder of DFC USA, and participated by other regional leaders, the "DFC champions". Other than us... Continue Reading →
Defining the Challenge, Connections, & Research
February 7, 2019-Jade I eventually got to do the research around "history and healing", so I shared the notes from my desk research. There is a book called <<The Mis-education of the Negro>> where I learned a lot about important historical perspectives. Although it mostly reflected on the history of higher education for African Americans, it provided... Continue Reading →
Crafting the Design Challenge
February 5, 2019-Sarah
Frame & Plan Cont.
January 29, 2019-Jade Today was our first official meeting with Becky, the supervising faculty (yayyy!), in this new semester! We started the conversation with recapping the 8th Annual Progressive Education Summit last Saturday. Sarah shared about the experience of listening to 6 different story-tellers of Baltimore and the workshops she attended, and I reviewed the opening keynote... Continue Reading →
Frame and Plan
January 29, 2019 Getting Started/Day 1: Frame and Plan: Jade and I are currently working through the Frame and Plan stage and are also diving into our initial research. To kick us off, our project advisor, Becky Slogeris, connected to us a teacher who worked with Becky and a previous Social Design student to work... Continue Reading →
The Project: Sharing, Implementing, and Sustaining Design for Change in Baltimore City Classrooms
This project began from Jade Shih’s desire to use her experience in MICA’s Social Design Master’s program in a way that would both be inspired by and support the work of Design for Change. Design for Change is a global movement founded on the concept that children Can create change, and they can start today.... Continue Reading →
Teach, Learn, Design
January 25, 2019 Teach, Learn, Design is a blog documenting the Independent Study project of Jade Shih and Sarah Dunn. Through this platform, we hope to explain and share the process of our work as we move through the Human Centered Design process (to be defined later in this post). We hope this blog will... Continue Reading →