At our first divisional faculty meeting, we used some provocative insights from Warren Berger‘s A More Beautiful Question to examine some of our familiar routines and practices through the lens of our important summer learning experiences. We wondered together about how might these powerful experiences reframe how we look at the familiar so as to make it seem new again and open for inquiry. Continue reading When the familiar becomes this sort of alien world
Tag Archives: innovation
Designing for Innovation
What do you get when you bring together faculty teams from each division and frame mission-focused inquiry around a design thinking framework? You get our first successful Innovation Institute. Over a five-day period this summer, a diverse group of faculty came together to explore the concept of time and how it impacts teaching and learning at LREI. With facilitation by designers from the School of Visual Arts Design for Social Innovation program (@InquiringMonica and @playlabinc), the participants explored how a design thinking mindset can be used to forward our mission through the cultivation of empathy connected to purposeful action. Within in this framework, participants identified questions connected to problems whose solution will have a positive institutional impact on our work and culture. Continue reading Designing for Innovation
Meet the d.lab (not) the same as the old tech lab
For a number of years, we’ve been working hard to more thoughtfully embed our use of technology in the context of meaningful grade level and subject area projects. Continue reading Meet the d.lab (not) the same as the old tech lab
Tools of the Trade
At the start of the school year, each seventh grader received an iPad 2 to use over the course of the year. Students are using the iPads throughout the day in their classes and are bringing them home to continue and extend their work. We believe that the small scale tablet form of the iPad offers a wealth of ways for us to enrich the already exciting and demanding seventh grade program. Continue reading Tools of the Trade