Category: OofSI
May 24, 2021 | Jennifer Stein | Learning Futures, OofSI
As the U.S. began to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic this spring, the calls for schools to find ways to learn from the crisis — to not simply return to the pre-pandemic “normal” — have come from many directions. Yet for schools and educational institutions that have just been through the most challenging year in recent history and are still managing the day-to-day work of running schools and educating students in an ongoing pandemic, this is no simple task.
October 10, 2019 | Lisa Wyatt | Learning Futures, OofSI
On the evening of September 9, pod A at Kyrene de las Manitas buzzed with activity as students showed off their new learning space in a newly launched prototype program.
September 13, 2019 | Punya Mishra | Learning Futures, OofSI
This past Monday was a special. That evening I was at Manitas School in Kyrene school district for the ribbon-cutting of the new school model we have been working on for the past two years. An important part of the evening was the reveal of the name of
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.
July 17, 2019 | Punya Mishra | Learning Futures, OofSI
I just got back from a trip to Israel. I was invited by the MEITAL 2019 conference and the Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts. MEITAL is an organization of higher education institutions in Israel focusing on understanding and responding to local and global trends shaping the future of education.
May 31, 2019 | Michele Gaines | OofSI
Over the past year, the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College has engaged in an integrated effort to focus on wellness.
April 24, 2019 | Cassandra Kellaris | OofSI
I’m a little sad that we’re done facilitating a series of workshops with ASU’s College of Health Solutions (CHS). These sessions, intended to clarify some grand challenges that the College will work on for the next several years, produced some really interesting outcomes.
February 26, 2019 | Punya Mishra | OofSI
Jill Castek, at the University of Arizona, invited me to participate in an NSF funded workshop on developing “Principles for the equitable design of STEM learning environments.
February 14, 2019 | Punya Mishra | OofSI
I was recently invited to present a Keynote at the Mobile Technology in Teacher Education (MITE) 2019 Conference hosted by The University of Technology, Sydney.
February 11, 2019 | Medha Dalal | OofSI
This spring, the Office of Scholarship and Innovation launched a series of informal gatherings of faculty and staff fueled by coffee and bagels.
January 28, 2019 | Punya Mishra | Learning Futures, OofSI
How might we? Three words, and a question mark. At one level it is a simple question—leaving open what it is that we might do. But at another level its openness is its strength. Because inherent within it is a call to action, a discomfort with the way things are, and an openness to change.
December 30, 2018 | Punya Mishra | Learning Futures, OofSI
Since 2008 the Mishra/Sawai family has been creating short videos to welcome in the New Year. These videos, created on a shoe-string budget, are usually typographical in nature with some kind of an optical illusion or aha! moment built in. Check out our latest creation to welcome 2019 titled “Reflect”.
October 31, 2018 | Punya Mishra | Learning Futures, OofSI
Most of the work that we do at the Office of Scholarship and Innovation at the Teachers College is practical and pragmatic—working with school districts through our community design model, reimagining what university technology labs can be, supporting faculty in their research and scholarship.
September 12, 2018 | Punya Mishra | Learning Futures, OofSI
Goofing off between meetings, I scribbled one line, five syllables long, on one of the white-boards in our office space. Within a few minutes, lo and behold, was a lovely haiku.