Innovation Pavilion – June, 2014

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Innovation Pavilion – June, 2014

CONTENTS

Welcome

Event Schedule 3

Agenda 7

What is Design Thinking? 9

Panelist Biographies 14

Notes

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THIS PLANNER BELONGS TO:

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Tuesday, June 10th Kick Off Event - Panel Discussion4:00 - 6:30 pm - Panel discussion Cielo 485 West Happy Canyon Rd., Castle Rock 80108

6:30 - 7:30 pm – Reception

Wednesday, June 11th Create Something Great Think Tank Conference- ideate, initiate, implement 8:00 am - 4:00 pm Innovation Pavilion9200 East Mineral Ave., Centennial 80112

Thursday, June 12th Create Something Great Think Tank Conference - ideate, initiate, implement8:00 am - 4:00 pm Innovation Pavilion 9200 East Mineral Ave. Centennial 80112

Share your experience on social media using the official hashtag = #dcsdCSG14

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PANEL DISCUSSION

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

4:00 – 4:15 Welcome and Introductions

4:15 – 6:15 Panel Discussion

Moderator: Kiffany Lychock

Panel Members:Doug Daniels

o Google Boulder, Colorado

Adrian Bazemore o Proctor & Gamble Seattle, Washington

Meenoo Rami o Philadelphia Science Leadership Academy EduCon

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Elliott Asp o Colorado State Department of Education

Jon Wuerth o Founder School in the Woods o Colorado Springs, Colorado

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Vic Ahmed o Founder Innovation Pavilion o Centennial, Colorado

PANEL DISCUSSION

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Format: Each panelist will present a 10 minute Ted Talk on a self-selected topic from the list of questions5 minutes for additional discussion/interaction by panel members5 minutes of Back Channel Questions for the panelistQ&A from audience back channel with open format - 20 minutesBack channel questions presented by the moderator to the panelistsTwitter/Google+/Facebook hashtag = #dcsdCSG14Final Thoughts: 12-18 minutesClosing message by panel members

Topics for the Panel Discussion:How should we prepare modern learners for their future?How can we transform education systems to ensure that our students are ready for college or the workforce?How do relationships impact creativity and innovation? What does it look like in your environment?What is the biggest challenge that we are facing in preparing students to engage in the 21st century workforce? How can we solve it?

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How do you create and nurture a culture that motivates all stakeholders to move forward, innovate, and take risks?

6:30 – 7:30 Reception

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7 NORMS OF COLLABORATION FROM ADAPTIVE SCHOOLS

Pausing

Paraphrasing

Posing Questions

Putting Ideas On The Table

Providing Data

Paying Attention To Self And Others

Presuming Positive Intentions

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AGENDA

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

8:00-8:30 Welcome And Introduction To The Protocol

8:30-8:50 Exploration Of All The Possible Topics

8:50-9:00 Transition To Topic Tables

9:00-9:15 Design Thinking Protocol And Empathy Overview

9:15-9:40 Empathize

9:40-10:45 Define(take a break in the next hour as needed)

10:45-11:00 Transition/Break time

11:00-12:00 Ideation Overview

12:00-1:00 Lunch - On Your Own

1:00 - 1:15 Framing The Afternoon

1:15 - 1:30 Ideate - We Are Collaborating And Focusing On A Similar Need To Personalize A Solution

1:30-2:00 Generate Best Solution And Share

2:00-4:00 Prototype

AGENDA

Thursday, June 12, 2014

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Day1

Day2

8:00 - 9:30 Welcome Back - Refining Prototypes

9:30 - 9:45 Break

9:45 - 10:15 Reflective Conversation

10:15-11:30 Work Time

11:30-12:45 Lunch

12:45 -1:15 Rejoin - Checking Progress of Project

1:25-3:00 Gallery Walk

3:00 - 4:00 Next Steps / Debrief

Resources:

WHAT IS DESIGN THINKING?

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Design Thinking is defined as human-centered problem solving with an emphasis on collaboration, creativity, and empathy. It encourages imagination and, bringing about multiple options and solutions. It has five steps: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test.

Empathize What is the experience of your user?What do they feel, think, and say?

Define What is the one problem you can focus on?

Ideate What is your solution to the problem?

Prototype What does your solution look like?

Test How will you implement your solution?

"Design thinking is about shaping people's experience. It is a very user-centric approach. It is about color, movement, emotion and involvement. It is also a process - from idea to implementation and beyond. And it is hyper visual."

                                 ~ Geoff Higgins

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YOUR DESIGN CHALLENGE

How do I create a 21st century learning experience for students? How will educators create new innovative practices through investigation and evaluation that motivate and engage students?

EMPATHIZE

Empathy is about stepping into another person’s shoes in order to understand their perspective. The goal is to make discoveries which could guide and inspire your project work.

Have a conversation and ask open - ended questions.

Probe areas of interest.

Write down tensions, contradictions, feelings, and surprises.

Dig for stories.

Discover emotions.

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“If you doubt that a small group of citizens can change the world, indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.”

~Margaret Mead

DEFINE

In this step you will capture your findings and develop a clear, specific, and meaningful purpose statement that encompasses the challenge and reflects some insight you have gained.

Try to synthesize your learning into a few needs that you have discovered and insights you find interesting.

Needs should be verbs.

Insights are discoveries that you might be able to leverage when creating your solutions.

Specifically state the meaningful challenge.

It should feel like a problem worth tackling!

This is the statement that you are going to address so make sure it is actionable.

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IDEATE

Here you are creating solutions to the challenge you have identified.

Go for volume! This is the time for idea generation, not evaluation.

All ideas are on the table. Embrace your inner child and create.

Share solutions and capture feedback from others on your team.

Do not defend ideas just listen and absorb them.

Practice empathy in this process.

Do not judge.

Find patterns and look for interesting threads and themes that emerge.

Assume a posture of wonder and curiosity especially in circumstances that seem familiar or uncomfortable.

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“You can teach a child how to think, but not what to think”

~Margaret Mead

PROTOTYPE

Prototyping is getting the ideas and explorations out of your head and into the physical world. You want to create an experience or make something that others can engage and react to. A prototype can be anything that takes a physical form. It may be a wall of post-it notes, a role playing activity, a space, an object.

TEST

How will you share your solution with the world? How will you implement it? Feedback and gaining new insights are important in this step. Don’t defend your prototype; instead, watch how others react and use your solution.

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N Panelist

Doug Daniels

Doug Daniels is Head of Google Maps and Earth for the North America region and is responsible for the overall vision, growth and execution of the business. Prior to Google, Doug was VP for Telogis, a leading provider of Location Intelligence software for the Mobile Enterprise.

Before Telogis, Doug was the Director of Consumer Sales for Digital Globe, a leading provider of high-resolution satellite imagery products and services.

Doug started his geospatial career at deCarta, a provider of geospatial mapping software. As Vice President, his leadership was recognized as providing Google with the software that became Google Maps in 2005.

Doug began his career at AT&T Wireless Services, where he held a variety of senior management positions, including Director of Sales - Wireless Data for the Western Region. Doug holds a B.A. degree in Economics from the University of Colorado - Boulder, an M.S. degree in Telecommunications from the University of Denver and is currently pursuing his M.S. degree in Geographic Information Sciences and Technology from University of Southern California.

Doug lives in Lone Tree, Colorado and in his spare time competes in road and mountain bike races, is an all-mountain expert skier and overall outdoor enthusiast with his two children Dylan and Walker.

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PANEL DISCUSSION“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation”

~Plato

Panelist

Adrian Bazemore

Born and raised in the foothills of South Carolina, Adrian Bazemore had the great fortune of being surrounded by wonderful teachers and a dynamic school district that not only challenged and inspired him, but rewarded him throughout life by providing an incredible foundation of diversity and critical thinking that serves as the basis for part of his success today. After graduating from the University of South Carolina’s Darla Moore School of Business and International Business Program with a Bachelors of Science in Management and a specialty in International Brand Management, Adrian moved to Asia to work in new market development for a private management company in the service industry. In 2002, Adrian joined Proctor & Gamble as an Account Manager in the Company’s Pet Care sector. Since then, Adrian has held a variety of very diverse roles throughout P&G all over North America that have exposed him to the changing world around us, and the needs that lie therein from the future workforce. Adrian is currently a Senior Account Executive in P&G’s eCommerce division, and manages several projects around expanding consumer packaged goods in the online space.

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PANELIST

Meenoo Rami

Meenoo Rami is a national board certified teacher who teaches her students English at the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, PA, and co-chairs EduCon annually. Mixing moments of joy, laughter, risk and encouragement Meenoo pushes her students to think critically about their connection to the word and the world. She has shared her classroom practice at various conferences such as: NCTE, ISTE, ASCD, EduCon, Urban Sites Conference for National Writing Project, and #140edu. Meenoo also runs a weekly twitter chat for English teachers called #engchat which bring teachers from around the country together to discuss ideas related to teaching of English. Meenoo also works as a teacher-consultant for the Philadelphia Writing Project

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PANELISTS

ELLIOTT ASP

Elliott Asp is Special Assistant to the Commissioner at the Colorado Department of Education. He has been a classroom teacher in both traditional and alternative settings, curriculum developer, university professor, and an administrator at the building and district level and has contributed to books, edited volumes, and research and professional journals on a wide variety of subjects. Dr. Asp has consulted with school districts and educational agencies in a number of states on standards-based education and assessment design and has made numerous presentations to state and national audiences. Before coming to CDE he was an assistant superintendent in the Douglas County and Cherry Creek School Districts and has held central office positions in Littleton and Aurora public schools. He has also served on a variety of state advisory boards and committees including: the Standards and Assessment Implementation Council (SADI), the Technical Advisory Committee for the Colorado Student Assessment Program, the Technical Advisory Group for Longitudinal Growth, and the Governor’s P20 Education Advisory Council.

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PANELIST

Jon Wuerth

Jon Wuerth is the co-founder of School in the Woods, a school of choice for 78 fourth graders in Academy School District 20 located on the north side of Colorado Springs. Along with another teacher, Carol Stansfield, he created this natural science school and opened its doors to eager young naturalists 15 years ago. His school has become extremely popular and has won several awards including the CAEE PreK-12 award and Colorado Springs Greenie Awards for Environmental Education.

Jon has been a teacher for 25 years and now serves as the coordinator for the recently expanded school. He has taught several grades and spent a few years as a K-5 science teacher before School in the Woods opened. Three years later he received the district’s annual award for Elementary Educator of the Year. He holds a master’s degree in Integrated Science Education from Colorado College and a master’s degree in Professional Leadership from Regis University. Jonathan shares his love for the natural world with additional students while teaching summer enrichment programs focused on the outdoors and natural sciences.

An excellent article about School in the Woods can be found at:

http://www.csindy.com/coloradosprings/making-tracks/Content?oid=1141004

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PANELIST

Vic Ahmed

A serial entrepreneur, Vic is a visionary behind Innovation Pavilion. He has built several startup companies from scratch and has the gift for translating visions and foresight into sizeable business opportunities. He has consistently demonstrated the commitment and energy needed to raise angel capital, venture capital and private equity funding, with world-class teams. In both large corporations and startups, Vic formed a reputation as a visionary by articulating concepts and plans to investors, employees, partners, and customers alike.

A leader that is hands-on, results-oriented, technically skilled and experienced, he is at home in a high-growth, high-tech business environment. He has raised tens of millions of dollars and managed hundreds of employees, with the ability to quickly adjust to market changes by balancing between strategic planning and focused execution.

Vic is currently the CEO of Business Genetics, the world’s first scientific methodology and tool for describing business to gain a precise understanding of an organization. He has served on the boards of the Colorado Governor’s Innovation Commission, the Secretary of Technology of Colorado’s IT Commission, ICAST – a nonprofit focused on sustainable development in underserved communities, as well as CAMT. He is a Co-Founder and Chairman of TIE-Rockies and the former Chairman of the Colorado Technology Association (CTA). He has participated in numerous management programs including Stanford University’s Executive Leadership pro.

Vic says, “When you start doing something, you always learn how to do it better. Inevitably, the plan you start out with is not the one you end up with.” He strongly encourages CEOs, especially new CEOs, to have an informal board of advisors, separate and apart from a Board of Directors; “These advisors can help you avoid pitfalls and they can provide unbiased advice since they have no financial interest in the company.”

Looking back over his career, Vic expressed, “Between my successes in Pakistan and the U.S. and my relationships in both places, I really have had the best of both worlds. I’ve worked hard and been lucky and I hope that I have played a part in increasing the understanding between the East and the West—two parts of the world that I love”.

www.linkedin.com/pub/vic-ahmed/0/45/173

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THOUGHTS TO LEAVE WITH

Put what you learned to work ASAP.

Have a heart to nurture the creative capacity of others.

Consider yourself a student of innovation and invest in yourself.

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