One of Henry Ford Learning Institute’s most popular ways of supporting schools, districts, and colleges is Design Thinking for Deeper Student Learning, a 3-day immersive workshop for educators who want to create more student-centered, engaging, and meaningful learning experiences.
Choosing a college path, preparing for a career, or deciding what comes next in life can feel overwhelming. There is often pressure to have the right answer, the perfect plan, or a clear destination.
Design Thinking offers a different way in.
We live in a world that is transforming with increasing speed, complexity and lack of clarity – and we need to prepare students to be able to thrive and lead positive change now and for a future that is constantly evolving and impossible to predict with any certainty.
“All education is political; teaching is never a neutral act,” writes Paulo Freire in his 1968 book Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Education requires the shaping of perspectives, beliefs, and values, and even seemingly neutral teaching methods can reinforce existing power structures.
What differentiates us in human evolution is our ability to tell a story, and anyone who has been in a workshop with me knows that I rely on this as a constant for many (possibly too many) of the practices and content of our Youth Leadership Design Jams (YLDJ)
Funded by The Skillman Foundation and with collaboration from the Black Male Educators Alliance, Allies for Radical Collaboration (ARC) is a year-long fellowship for white-identifying educators who lead, love, and nurture Detroit students.
It has been six months since I joined our HFLI team. Six months of navigating a new-ish world after spending ten years as an educator in Detroit. Six months of building new relationships, learning the “HFLI Way,” observing, planning, and facilitating a multitude of workshops and engagements in my role as National Program Director.
Inspired by participants, HFLI’s Executive Director – Deborah Parizek – reflects on her recent experience as a Deep Dive facilitator at the 10th Annual Deeper Learning Conference. Shortly after this event, the National Art Education Association (NAEA) Design Interest Group presented Debi with the 2023 NAEA Outstanding Design Educator Award.
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