What’s Next: The Future of Schools Provocateurs

Laura is the co-director of the d.school’s K12 Lab. As a human-centered designer, her work focuses on understanding the ecosystem of education and finding meaningful opportunities for disruptive design. She is an advocate for equity and social justice work and is leading experiments to ensure more students have access to an innovative educational experience that will help them thrive in a changing world. Formerly Laura was the Director of External Relations at the High Tech High Graduate School of Education. As the Director of External Relations, Laura traveled the globe designing and leading professional development focused on the implementation of progressive education, school transformation, deeper learning and equity initiatives. She has served as a principal of two HTH sites and has taught middle and high school classes in public charter and comprehensive schools. Laura was the architect of the Deeper Learning Conference, a 1600 person, adult learning experience aimed at activating and galvanizing educators for large-scale change.

Join David Jakes, David Culberhouse and Glenn Robbins as they speak with special guest, Jon Corippo!
Jon Corippo describes himself as a “formerly disgruntled student.” He made it almost all the way through school at a 2.9 GPA. His final three semesters in Advertising changed everything, though: Advertising classes were project-based. Jon’s grades shot to nearly 4.0. Jon graduated from college with no intention of teaching.
After about 7 years in non-educational jobs, Jon’s amazing wife persuaded him to try his hand in education: he was hooked after just two days as a long-term sub on an emergency credential.
Over 25 years later, Jon had served a decade at the K-8 level, opened a 1-1, PBL, Google-based high school, served in two county offices, including as an Assistant Superintendent and It Director. Jon has been recognized as a County Teacher of the Year, a 20 to Watch Educator by the NSBA, and was a finalist in the EdTech Digest Awards. Jon also holds the Apple Distinguished Educator, Google Certified Innovator, and Microsoft Innovative Educator badges.
Jon served as the Chief Learning Officer of CUE for half a decade. His work with CUE included creating the CUE Rock Star concept of Professional Development, with a focus on hands-on learning. Jon created CUE Rock Star Camps for Admin, TOSAs, Teachers, and Specialized Editions for core areas. Jon lead the development of the very successful CUE Launch program, and the well-received CUE BOLD Symposium. Under Jon’s leadership, CUE professional learning trained over 60,000 educators.
Jon lives in Coarsegold, California, near Yosemite, with his wife (a very successful educator), three children and a random number of free-range chickens.

Join David Jakes, David Culberhouse and Glenn Robbins as they speak with special guest, Diana Laufenberg. 
For 16 years, Diana was a secondary social studies teacher in Wisconsin, Kansas, Arizona and Pennsylvania. She most recently taught at the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, an inquiry-driven, project-based high school focused on modern learning. Diana was featured on TED.com for her “How to Learn? From Mistakes” and recognized for earning National Board Certification. In 2013, Diana started Inquiry Schools, a new non-profit working to create and support student centered learning environments through all phases of development. She currently serves as the Executive Director and Lead Teacher for Inquiry Schools. When she is not working, she can be found frolicking in the forests and lakes of Wisconsin.

On this episode David Jakes, David Culberhouse, and Glenn Robbins talk with Karina Ruiz. 
Karina Ruiz is one of the founding Principals of BRIC Architecture in Portland, OR and the 2019 Chair of the AIA Committee on Architecture for Education. She is the epitome of the firm’s tagline of Building Relationships and Inspiring Communities. Karina has focused her 25-year career on the design of innovative learning environments. She has designed and managed over $1 billion in educational projects throughout her career, many which have earned numerous local, regional and national design awards, including two James D. MacConnell Awards. Her belief that education shapes the future of this world, drives Karina to ensure that teaching and learning objectives remain the team’s focus throughout each project. She is actively engaged in the national dialogue on the intersection between pedagogy and design innovation. Additionally, as the educational facility planning lead for BRIC Architecture, Inc., Karina inspires our educational planning, community engagement, and design efforts. Her leadership is based in the ardent belief that design can be a partner to pedagogy to better serve the needs of our learners. It is her goal to design schools that empower learners to change the world.
E: karina.ruiz@bric-arch.com @ruizpdx 

Join David Culberhouse, David Jakes, and Glenn Robbins as they explore the future of learning, schools and education with special guest, Lisa Kay Solomon!
A bestselling author, educator, speaker, and dynamic force for good, Lisa Kay Solomon has dedicated her career to making design a more accessible, learnable, and expansive set of everyday leadership practices.
Named one of ixDA’s Women of Design 2020, Lisa has taught leadership and design at the California College of the Art’s MBA in Design strategy, was the founding Chair of Singularity University’s Transformational Practices effort, and recently collaborated with LinkedIn Learning to launch their first “Leader as Futurist” class.
Currently a Designer in Residence at the Stanford d. school, Lisa focuses on bridging the disciplines of futures and design thinking, creating experiences like “Vote by Design: Presidential Edition” and The Future’s Happening to help students learn and practice the skills they don’t yet know they need. At the d.school, she teaches classes such as Inventing the Future where students imagine, debate and analyze the 50-year futures of emerging tech, and works closely with the K12 community to make futures thinking a mainstay of 21c core curriculum.

Iteration 1.0 - Join David Culberhouse, David Jakes, and Glenn Robbins as they explore the future of learning, schools and education. Each conversation will explore and question the existing norms and experiences of school while provoking you to imagine a new iteration of learning and school. New voices from within education and beyond will join in to provide a variety of perspectives on the future and challenge participants to think in new directions.