By: Punya Mishra

Design is core to my identity, to who I am. Education is the space within which I function but I try to approach everything I do as a designer. This was not always the case.

By: Punya Mishra

I just came across a quote from Alan Kay while browsing the web. Alan Kay is a programmer, educator, jazz musician and one of the key inventors of computing as we know it today.

By: Punya Mishra

We have been creating short videos to welcome the new year since 2008. This year was no exception. 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.

By: Punya Mishra

I love to talk about design and education. I like to hang out with people who care about design and education. This brings us to a website/blog created by a group of graduate students (and faculty) at the Teachers College that seeks to explore “design in all its richness.”

By: Punya Mishra

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.

By: Punya Mishra

Anyone who works in the area of social design knows how important it is to develop a systems-oriented mindset and how difficult it is to do so.

By: Punya Mishra

One of the most exciting projects we have been involved with in the Office of Scholarship and Innovation (OofSI) has been our partnership with the Kyrene School District.

By: Christina Ngo

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

By: Christina Ngo

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

By: Christina Ngo

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

By: Christina Ngo

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

By: Christina Ngo

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

By: Hannah Scully

This is a special guest blog contribution from Hannah Scully. Hannah is an undergraduate Barrett Honors College student in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College and completed her Honors Thesis on design thinking and its use throughout education.

By: Christina Ngo

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?

By: Christina Ngo

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?