Posts by Christina Ngo

You can’t spell improvement without ME.

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This is the final installment of a series of blog posts about my adventure as a Design Strategist within the Office of Scholarship & Innovation.

Testing ideas tested me

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This is the fifth installment of a series of blog posts about my journey as a Design Strategist within the Office of Scholarship & Innovation.

Lisa Wyatt: a pro at prototyping

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This is the fourth installment of a series of blog posts about my experience as a Design Strategist within the Office of Scholarship & Innovation.

It’s a design project!

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This is the third installment of a series of posts about my key learnings as a Design Strategist within the Office of Scholarship & Innovation.

Identifying a challenge is sometimes a challenge

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This is the second installment of a series of posts about my key learnings as a Design Strategist within the Office of Scholarship & Innovation.

Ben and Christina’s excellent adventure to Columbus, Ohio

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When you first see the title to this blog post, you might think that there’s not much to say about Columbus, Ohio… and what does it have to do with our team?

2good + 2be = 4gotten: see ya, CSI!

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Last week, our seven Teacher Instructional Leaders (TILs) at Coronado High School had their last day before starting summer vacation. Besides writing HAGS (have a good summer) in their imaginary yearbooks, how did we leave things?

Design Initiatives goes to San Diego: part 3

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In the third installment of the Design team traveling to San Diego, Christina talks about her experiences at the Ashoka U Conference!

Coronado Success Initiative: excellent adventures, home visits, and non-academic clubs, oh my!

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All I can say is that without these innovative changemakers, we’d be “in danger of flunking most heinously tomorrow.”

One size doesn’t fit all and get a robot to do it – a conversation with Dr. Yong Zhao

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Last week, Dr. Yong Zhao gave a talk at the MU titled “What Works May Hurt: Side Effects in Education”. Our office scored the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Zhao and just talk.

Welcome, Design Fellows!

The next iteration of cross-staff design

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The Design Initiatives team wouldn’t be the Design Initiatives team if we didn’t also prototype on ourselves, and test new ways of doing the work we do.

MLFTC cross-staff design workshop recap

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#OofSI’s Design Initiatives team hosted a group of MLFTC staff on the Polytechnic Campus for a workshop around the design process.

Kyrene design charrette recap

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Where there’s a will (to be wild), there’s a way.