Category: Principled Innovation

Ed Leadership partners with Mesa Public Schools using Leadership Pathways with Principled Innovation
October 5, 2021 | Eoline Cary and Terri McCoy | OofSI, Principled Innovation, Scholarship
Starting Fall 2021, Ed Leadership has embedded their Leadership Pathways master’s degree program into the Mesa Public Schools with ASU staff to support and coach aspiring leaders in the district.

December 18, 2020 | Mikayla Madjidi | Principled Innovation
The Principled Innovation team presented a tailored version of their The Power of Pausing: Reflection for Personal and Professional Transformation to the attendees of their Innovation Week workshop on December 10th, 2020.

December 16, 2020 | Jodie Donner, M.Ed. | Principled Innovation
What was supposed to be an in-person presentation in Anaheim, CA earlier this year evolved into a virtual session during ISTE 20 Live.

November 16, 2020 | Mikayla Madjidi | Principled Innovation
At the end of October, the Principled Innovation team hosted an hour-long online workshop titled The Power of Pausing: Reflection for Personal and Professional Transformation at the 2020 ASU CSW/SC Professional Development Conference.

October 28, 2020 | Jodie Donner, M.Ed. | Principled Innovation
Applying the Principled Innovation framework was paramount in the creation of IgnitED Labs Online.

August 14, 2020 | Mikayla Madjidi | Principled Innovation
This summer, the Principled Innovation team supported the MLFTC curriculum redesign faculty to embed Principled Innovation practices into course outcomes.

July 17, 2020 | Punya Mishra | Principled Innovation
The economist and thinker Andrew Scott once said something that blew me away. He said that: The 20th century created the idea of teenagers and retirement.

June 22, 2020 | Punya Mishra | Learning Futures, Principled Innovation
The Center for Science and the Imagination at ASU has a new series called Us in Flux. Every two weeks they publish a (super-short) short story that explores “themes of community, collaboration, and collective imagination in response to transformative events.” They follow each story with a virtual conversation with the author and a guest.

June 3, 2020 | Claire Gilbert | Principled Innovation
I’m very excited to announce that this week, we’ve launched our very first podcast, Slice of PI, wherever podcasts are consumed!

May 29, 2020 | Mikayla Madjidi | Principled Innovation
The words “fake news” have been significant and controversial in the last few years and are especially relevant now as misinformation about COVID-19 spreads as fast as the coronavirus itself.

May 27, 2020 | Cristy Guleserian | Principled Innovation
Recently, I had a conversation with a school leader who shared his approach to supporting and communicating with faculty and staff during this time of great uncertainty.

May 18, 2020 | Mikayla Madjidi | Principled Innovation
We are all living in a new context, and adjusting to a life of remote work has been challenging. Changes in the tools that we use to communicate and collaborate have been tricky to navigate.

May 13, 2020 | Mikayla Madjidi | Principled Innovation
Amid the pouring rain, 67 area leaders gathered at the Tempe campus on Saturday, February 22nd to focus on Principled Innovation: Leadership for Today, Tomorrow, and the Future

April 17, 2020 | Mikayla Madjidi | Principled Innovation
Like so many others in the valley, I’ve taken to the trails for fresh air and exercise to beat the stress of our isolating social state.

April 3, 2020 | Punya Mishra | Principled Innovation
Mike Crowley has a guest post on the silverliningforlearning.org site titled: If we need to be right before we move. (If you haven’t read it, I recommend it strongly. Go ahead follow the link above. I’ll be waiting). [Pause] Welcome back. I

April 3, 2020 | Punya Mishra | Principled Innovation
Is the COVID-19 crisis the tipping point for online learning?

March 20, 2020 | Cristy Guleserian | Principled Innovation
The other day I received a text message from my oldest daughter who is creating her best life in New York City. She’s an emerging adult who is living independently in another state for the first time. She’s young, strong, and kind of my her

March 5, 2020 | Punya Mishra and Cristy Guleserian | Design, Principled Innovation
This is the second of two posts on the topic of bringing principled innovation practices to designing learning futures.

March 4, 2020 | Punya Mishra and Cristy Guleserian | Design, Principled Innovation
This is the first of two posts on the topic of bringing principled innovation practices to designing learning futures.

February 24, 2020 | Punya Mishra | Design, Principled Innovation
Our college has embraced the idea of Principled Innovation as being a core value that informs everything we do.

February 19, 2020 | Punya Mishra | Principled Innovation
Over the past few years I have struggled with some of the consequences of disruptive innovation and have come to distrust the jargon of creative destruction and disruption that has become the mantra of our time.

February 14, 2020 | Jennifer Stein | Principled Innovation
The word “protocol” has a somewhat rigid, almost clinical connotation for me, evoking a sense of strict rules, a process that must be followed, perhaps consequences if one does not. Yet in the last year or two, I have learned that protocols do not have to be that

February 10, 2020 | Hannah Jennewein | Principled Innovation
As we look towards a new year of possibilities and opportunities, we wanted to step back and share some updates with our Principled Innovation Staff Catalysts cohort.

January 7, 2020 | Jodie Donner, M.Ed. | Learning Futures, Principled Innovation
Educators from MLFTC attended and presented at the 45th Annual Association for Moral Education Conference. The focus on “Morality and Ethics for the Digital World” at the Seattle conference directly aligned with Principled Innovation and provided the p

December 18, 2019 | Cristy Guleserian | Principled Innovation
December traditionally has been an opportunity for our Principled Innovation team to look back on the work we have accomplished over the past twelve months and see how far we have progressed towards.

November 12, 2019 | Cristy Guleserian | Principled Innovation
A few years ago we asked ourselves the question, “What could it mean for a college of education at a public university to integrate a character education framework into the systems of teacher and leader preparation?” The answer was uncertain, complex and, according to some, impossible.

November 12, 2019 | Jennifer Stein | Principled Innovation
Reorganizing the student success team in Student Services so that students have easy access to staff who can provide support in specific areas of need, including wellness, financial advising, and career counseling.

November 12, 2019 | Cassandra Kellaris | Principled Innovation
This cohort of MLFTC staff will work together during the 2019-20 academic year to demystify the practice of principled innovation and inspire positive change across MLFTC.

November 7, 2019 | Punya Mishra | Design, Principled Innovation
Quick summary: In which I disparage the buzzword “design thinking” even while praising the idea of design; point to the value-neutral nature of design and the need for a more principled approach, and end with a video that seeks to capture a vision of principled innovation embedded into the design process.