Posts by Benjamin Scragg

December 1, 2020 | Benjamin Scragg | Design
Learn about our team’s effort to lead a national workshop collaboration focused on the designing future undergraduate STEM education, and the lessons we learned along the way about collaborating remotely and at scale.

October 18, 2019 | Benjamin Scragg | Scholarship
Back in January, we shared about the launch of an exciting idea emerging out of Miami, Arizona, seeking to provide opportunities for high-achieving students in rural areas across the state.

August 9, 2019 | Punya Mishra, Jennifer Stein, Benjamin Scragg, Lisa Wyatt, Claire Gilbert and Cassandra Kellaris | OofSI
Christina Ngo wrote a series of posts about her stint as a design strategist in OofSI. We thought it would be fitting that the Design Initiatives team respond in kind, by writing a post about her stay here and the impact it had on all of us—in ways small and large.

March 14, 2019 | Benjamin Scragg | Design
On Tuesday 2/12, I jumped back over to San Diego for my second visit in a week to “America’s Finest City.” This time, I went to join a convening of education innovators and changemakers to network and share approaches to school design and r

March 6, 2019 | Benjamin Scragg | Design
On Tuesday 2/5 and Wednesday 2/6, my colleague Jennifer Stein and I traveled to La Jolla, California for the Higher Ed Innovators and Disruptors: Social Mobility & Student Success Conference, which was organized by the Student Retention and Success team at UC San Diego.

October 27, 2017 | Benjamin Scragg | Design
As part of an exciting new district partnership, the Office of Scholarship and Innovation kicked off a community design lab with the Avondale Elementary School District

September 14, 2017 | Benjamin Scragg | Design
As we continue to dive into an open-ended design process with the Madison administrative leadership team, five teams have emerged with specific challenges they want to tackle.