The Design Thinking Classroom

<p class=ql-align-center><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>A Design-Oriented Approach That Can Best Serve Today's Students and Educators Alike</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>How can we make schools more relevant engaging and capable of supporting the development of skills and dispositions that will help students themselves design a life worth living?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Drawing from his ample experience in the classroom as a school administrator and as a designer author David Jakes makes the case that design thinking offers an approach to education that is responsive collaborative and well-suited to the opportunities of the twenty-first century. Full of exercises and suggestions for how design thinking can change educators' approach to classroom layout virtual learning assessment and more this book shows how we can make today's classrooms better places to teach and learn.</span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </em></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The Design Thinking Classroom</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> helps create the conditions for K-12 teachers and school leaders to innovate and improve a new kind of educational experience.</span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>It's a book for readers who are invested in rising to the challenges faced by modern institutions and a powerful argument for the ways design thinking can transform education. </span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Endorsements</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A book that implores education to be infinitely more human and humane centering people in the design of their own learning and spaces.-Diana Laufenberg</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>At their core every teacher is and has been a designer whether they've realized it or not. David Jakes's new book provides teachers with concrete principles for improving in their role as educator-designers ensuring teachers are better equipped to develop the learning experiences every student deserves.-Darren E. Draper</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Jakes counters traditional and stagnant viewpoints of P-16 education with practical opportunities for educators to enrich and improve their current practices in order to do what is right just and equitable for future generations of students.-Jeremy S. Brueck</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>David Jakes's insightful and practical book is a hope-filled well-lit pathway for educators.-Laura Walker Deisley</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>