By: Kyle Wagner

Former design strategist and project Manager Kyle Wagner shares his experience working on our team and details his personal journey with the Office of Scholarship and Innovation.

By: Eoline Cary and Terri McCoy

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.

By: Stephanie McBride-Schreiner and Ivonne Lujano Vilchis

“Identity in Peer Review”, is the theme of Peer Review Week 2021, a virtual community-led yearly global event during September 20-24. This thematic focus shines a light on the multifaceted role of identity in the peer review process and what is needed to foster more diverse, equitable, and inclusive peer review practices.

By: Jennifer Stein

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.

By: Lisa Wyatt

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.

By: Punya Mishra

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

By: Jennifer Stein, Punya Mishra, Cassandra Kellaris, Benjamin Scragg, Lisa Wyatt and Claire Gilbert

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.

By: Punya Mishra

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.

By: Michele Gaines

Over the past year, the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College has engaged in an integrated effort to focus on wellness.

By: Cassandra Kellaris

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.

By: Punya Mishra

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.

By: Punya Mishra

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.

By: Medha Dalal

This spring, the Office of Scholarship and Innovation launched a series of informal gatherings of faculty and staff fueled by coffee and bagels.

By: Punya Mishra

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.

By: Punya Mishra

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”.