I am an Innovative Designer!

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1	Share a problem that you would like to address, and indicate the Design Framework you think would provide the best approach!
2	Your name	Your email address (someone might want to collaborate with you on your problem - maybe they have a similar issue!)	Describe the problem you'd like to address.	Which Design Process might work for this problem? (Indicator 4a.)	Which digital tool(s) might help you plan and manage your design process? (Indicator 4b.)	Does your design allow for iterations and prototypes? How? (Indicator 4c.)	Describe the open-ended and/or cyclical nature of your problem. What might be your next step(s)? (Indicator 4d.)	What does "exhibit a tolerance for ambiguity" mean to you? Why is that trait an important one to foster?

3	Lisa Howell	lhowell@athensisd.net	Adapting lessons for asynchronous online learning	Design Thinking/Launch Cycle
4	Stacy De La Garza	ssdelagarza@forneyisd.net	Adapting lessons for asynchronous online learning	Design Thinking/Launch Cycle	If we look at the LAUNCH design, then I would use the Look and listen to understand what my students needs and the Ask qustions to understand what I need to do. I would use video resources online through their chromebooks to teach the steps needed to know how to complete assignments.	Yes, I could create the assignment in different ways and allow them to then create their own. Using the LAUNCH design, I could brainstorm and create with them.	Elementary students struggle with how to use technology in the classroom setting and need modeling to understand, if no teacher is present and they need to complete work on their own this becomes a problem due to lack of know how. My next steps are to brainstorm ideas on how to make the process easy for them but still allow them to continue their education.	Means that I am open to many different ideas and way to do things. No one way is exact. This trait is important because every student is different with a different background. We need to foster all ideas so that students can learn how to adapt and be a out of the box learner.
5	Melanie Edwards	melanie.edwards@communityisd.org	Adapting lessons to use in class and online	Six Thinking Hats	Our district is going to Canvas and I can use the same lesson in class and online. I can create interactive lessons that students can communicate with other students. Making the lesson I can add hands-on activities, communications, and students can design and grow.	4c: Students develop, test and refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design process. With the lessons I will be able to allow students to create a process to do their assignments.	In writing, I will help the students through writing process. They will brainstorm, shape the prompt, write each of the paragraphs, and use the editing process to help others through communicatoin.	Students and teachers let go of the notion that they know what will happen. Learning to accept our failures and growth. Giving up power and the illusion of always being right so we can all grow!
6	Tammy Brent	tammy.brent@communityisd.org	Adapting from face to face/hands on activities to online learning	Six Thinking Hats	After going through the Six thinking hats, I can use our Canvas tool at school to help the kids collaborate and actually help me create fun and intentional lessons they can do that will include all students and they will be able to do hands on activities at home.	Yes. The students will be creating their own lessons while teaching them to others in the class.	Brainstorming is one way of walking through the path to get to the answers. Open-ended problems enhance higher order thinking and help us look at serveral different paths to go down. I will be trying new tools and activities for online learning to see what work the best.	Exhibiting a tolerance for anbiguity means that a student or teacher is comfortable with not knowing if the outcome they predict is correct or not. When thinking outside the box, it is okay to be vulnerable, meaning that it is okay to redo, or reteach. When using our higher thinking skills and brainstroming, we are not automatically going to come up with the correct answers. It is important that students know it is okay to redo, then redo if needed to get to the right place. Failure is learning.
7	Shay Frauman	shay.frauman@communityisd.org	Getting students to completly engage in the online learning process with parent support	Six Thinking Hats	After reading through each of the 6 hats, we are using a new platform in our district, Canvas. This is supposed to allow our students and parents to fell like they can collaborate more and feel more invested with the online learning process.	Yes. This is new and there will be many prototypes to get it just right. But, it is supposed to allow for more flow of interacttion between student/teacher/parent.	I am speaking using the"Blue" & "Yellow" hat. I am currently learning, myself, how to use the platform. I feel like getting more in tune with it and truy undrstanding the ins and outs will allow me to show my students and parents how to navigate it with confidence.	Exhibiting a tolerance for ambiguity means that you are open to more than just what you personally know. This is an excellent trait to have because if you are not open to new challenges and ideas, then you cannot grow yourself. :)
8	Oluremi Olaniran	oluremi.olaniran@communityisd.org	Students are not paerticipating appropriately (or at all) in remote learning lessons.	Six Thinking Hats	The district is introducing a new digital tool for the upcoming school year (Canvas). I believe using this tool will enable all involved (the administraors, parents, teachers and students) to be on top of any issues that might arise in the process of learning and achieving success. Thus, all involved can put on the "six thinking hats" at any stage of using this tool to solve the problem.	Yes, from the training I could see that students will have the opportunity to be creative as they submit assignments using various media. This will enable them to use the design process. There is also room for group work and collaboration.	I am already looking at myself, the parents and students wearing mostly the "red, yellow, green and blue hats" as we use the tool. My next steps are to be flexible, and allow time for the thinking precess as we move on, I will also use intentional grouping and collaboration to overcome some of the problems.	"Exhibit a tolerance for ambiguity" means how well I can manage or operate effectively when faced with uncertainty. Thus it is important that I am open to various ways that could be used to tackle a problem. Learning is a life long process so it is important to allow everyone to learn at their own pace and contribute their ideas as long as it will lead to growth.
9	Jessica Davis	jdavis@wacsd.com	Students taking ownership of the assignment and being resourceful when they begin to have questions.	Design Thinking/Launch Cycle	Educators this year gained access to Google Classroom. We are not able to sync more and more outside resources for students to explore and use to help them deep dive during their assignments.	I think using tools like choice boards and hyperdocs allows for students to create all sorts of projects and work through new tech. tools.	With everything being new and/or different from what was considered the norm it's important to lay out clear expectations and exemplars for students to use to guide them through their work.	I think it's important to allow students to create their own versions of the end objective. The pathway for learners is going to be different for differing levels but it's okay as long as the objective is met for each specific student. Letting go of some of that control is going to be very important in a digital world.
10	natalie sutton	natalie.sutton@redoakisd.org	all students participating and engaging in the lesson	Six Thinking Hats	six hats seem to be a easy starting point and we already use canvas. students and i can make the lessons more interactive and engaging.	having 9th graders, using choice boards allows more opportunity to be engaged and taylor to what intrest them.	using open ended questions can be limiting to students who lack confidence in answering these types of questions. setting the environment early on and slowly building into to full on open ended questions using sentence stems to help vuild confidence	exhibit a tolerance for ambiguity means getting my students comfortble with the uncertainty and how well they can manage a certain task. It is important to foster this trait so that students can step out on their own thiniking and understand they can take risk to own their onw learning
11	Susie Baron	barons@friscoisd.org		Design Thinking/Launch Cycle	Using Maker's Space will give students the opportunity to create, design and experiment with a project that often is short term. A student constructs, builds, invents, and collaborates with others in a workspace similar to engineering. Students can reconstruct their design based on questions and thought provoking thinking related to the Maker's Space project. Students have the opportunity to continue to work on their project or rotate to a new Maker's Space station to design a new project worthy of interest to launch their thinking process.	Using Choice Boards to include: Maker's Space, Design Prototypes, Question and Fix Project Problems, Collaborative Navigational Ideas, Framing the Newly Invented Project as a Tool, and Posing the "Patent Project" Presentation to Persuade Potential Investors. This also could be put on Google Classroom to help student submit assigments and keep organized with accountability.	Because, students are familiar with Choice Boards from Kindergarten, I would only be introducting the framework of Maker's Space. Modeling the expectations of each of the framework and how to use the different tools in Maker's Space to build their new invention will take time. Establishing a rubric and building a class prototype model of each exemplar will help to typify the what, how and why. An anchor chart to serve as a visual resource along with the prototype near the rubrics will help the students see where their own project falls on the exemplar scale.	The goal is for students to have autonomy over their learning. When students choose their own partners and projects, it gives them a chance to work on what will impact their learning most. Often with choices, behavior problems diminish, students feel more confident with their task at hand and want to perservere their project. Student qualtiy often is better, because they question their own project with the prototypes with the teacher as a facilitator. Students come from different life experiences and learning situations that impact their lives. No two students learn all the same concepts at the same time. Showing students that failure is a chance to improve and they should be willing to accept uncertainity as a way to grow and improve.
12	Lanie Hollis	lanie.hollis@communityisd.org	Adapting lessons from face to face to online learning	six thinking hats	Our district is going to Canvas this year. I believe that the Six Thinking Hats will help all staff, students, and parents colaborate with each other. We will be able to fix any issues right away with this tool and be able to have a successful year with collaboration from everyone.	Yes, from the triningnthat we have had I can see that it will allow students to be a creative as they would like.	Right now I am currently learning how to navigate this new platform of learning. I feel that it is best for me to navigate what it looks like so that I can teach my students and parents how to use the platform. It will be important to be flexible and collaboratem especially starting off.	Students interperet concepts in more than one way. This is where there creartive side comes out. It important to accept all interpertations of the projects given. I am open to the many different ways that an assignment could be taken whether it is in class or online learning.
13	Jeremy Stout	jeremy.stout@sunnyvaleisd.com	Students are not participating appropriately (or at all) in remote learning lessons.	Design Thinking/Launch Cycle	Utilize Classcraft to create creative and intrisicaly motivate students.	Using Choice Boards to give students choice on how they would like to show their mastery of the subject.	Creating steps and proceedures to help the students that are struggling. Set up a platform of support for students that might be lost or confussed on how to proceed.	Problems have many ways they can be solved and its important to honor the paths students might take to get to that solution. I belive there is no one way to corectly solve a problem.
14	Malia Burnett	mburnett@ptaaschool.org		Design Thinking/Launch Cycle	The district I am employed with makes use of STEMSCOPE. I hope to utilize this resource as much as possible, however I would like to give some of the more hands-on activities a bit more of a problem-solving approach if we have to go back into an exclusive all online learning environment.	Yes. Many of the hands-on activities for STEMSCOPES are experiments that the students take part in after discussing and learning about a new topic. The activities are meant to further their knowledge and understanding of a subject. Project-based ideas to help go along with the given topics can include figuring out problems for topic projects given materials that they have on-hand, or supplying students with specific materials with a given problem to solve.	Students have the ability to further their own understanding on a given Science topic by applying and testing their own knowledge through hands-on activities. The STEMSCOPE digital classroom gives the students the necessary background information, vocabulary, demonstration, explanation, etc. in order to help the students to succeed. It also allows them to go back and check back in on a topic if they are uncertain and to self-check for themselves.	Having a tolerance for something that is going awry or wrong. Students need to understand that failure is okay; that things will always go wrong and that is okay. I have a favorite quote by Albert Einstein that I love to share with my students, "You never fail until you stop trying." As long as you keep trying, you will never fail. It might take you several times to figure out how to get something to work the way that it is supposed to, but you will never fail until you stop trying to figure out what is going wrong. No brilliant scientist anywhere ever got anything right the first time around. Teaching students to have a tolerance for ambiguity is important because it fosters perseverance. It teaches children to test their own limits; to set goals and objectives for themselves.
15	Ayesha Siddiqui	asiddiqui@goodtreeacademy.org	Adapting lessons for asynchronous online learning	Six Thinking Hats	Our school is planning to use Google classroom as the main platform. There are several tools in Google classroom which can be use to design, collaborate, and organize the design process. I am also planning to use Mystery Science lessons. They are a great source as each lesson has several parts and an activity at the end. The lesson and activity is aligned to the TEKS.	Our school is planning to use Google classroom as the main platform. There are several tools in Google classroom which can be use to design, collaborate, and organize the design process. I am also planning to use Mystery Science lessons. They are a great source as each lesson has several parts and an activity at the end. The lesson and activity is aligned to the TEKS.	The next step will be to facilitate students, guide them and keep them focused and engaged. There will be several adjustments to lesson plans and most probably a couple of versions for same lesson since things are different when they are needed to be done remotely. Each student has a unique personality and unique family situation.	As an educator it is essential to understand that we all see things differently and unique ideas and inventions are usually a result of tolerance for ambiguity. I am open to new ideas and perspectives and encourage my students to keep trying and exploring until they completely understand the concept. Their approach might be different but it doesn't mean that they are wrong. And honestly, as a result, I always end up learning new things from them.
16	Angelita De Leon	deleona@greenvilleisd.com	Adapting lessons for asynchronous online learning	Design Thinking/Launch Cycle	If our school the oppurninty to launch a design of The engineering design, I would use video resources online for studnets to understand and complete the assignmnet. We do offer chromebooks so mostly the resources will be from them google it online.	Yes, Depending on the lesson we could create the assignment by creative ideas and students being aware and by using the Launch Cycle will be the approachable way of accomplishing the assignmnet	In the library we read books consistently and open-ended questions happen all the time. When we read a book, questions are asked who?, what, why?how? all the time. Of course, I try my best to answer them to the best of my knowledge. Obviously i do not have enough time during the class to finish the answers. But the following week i try my best to make the questions that have been asked to become more realistic and have the studnets some up with an idea on how to fix the problem.	What does "exhibit a tolerance for ambiguity" mean to you? Why is that trait an important one to foster?
17	Lisa Allen	lisa.allen@maypearlisd.org	How to keep remote learning and face to face learning as similair as possible.	Six Thinking Hats	Google classroom, new online textbook, Listenwise, Commonlit	Yes, in our new writing program, it will "grade" student essays to allow them to make revisions up to two times before submitting work to be graded.	Remote learning is shifting and changing. With the uncertainty of keeping campuses open, I'd like to keep online and face to face lessons/activities the same. This will allow students to understand and know what to expect with we return to remote only or if campus closes for a few days due to exposure.	Students need to understand that just because the answer doesn't pop into their head right away, it doesn't mean they don't get it.
18	Liliana Guzman	guzmanl@friscoisd.org	How to keep students engage and accountable during virtual learning	The launch cycle	Google Meets , Google Classroom, Seesaw and Book Creator	Creating choice boards will allow students to look, listen and learn to create awareness, generate questions, navigate ideas, create solucions and finally they can revise what work and what needs to be changes.	Learning the different tools availables for virtual learning to make lesson that allow student participation and engagement.	It Is good for students to understand that there are more than one perspective to various situations.Being able to allow curiosity to wander freely in asking questions and digging deeper for a better understanding is crucial for the development of critical thinking.
19	Kathryn Southard	kathryn.southard@maypearlisd.org	Many community members speak different languages. How can I communicate with them equitably?	Design Thinking/Launch Cycle	Google Meets, Google Translate, Screencastify made in a variety of languages	Yes, with repeated use we can collect data to determine if our program is effective.	We will analyze the data to determine what parts of our plan are successful and identify areas that could be improved.	Students need to understand that working together and being open to new ideas can be very beneficial. They need to know that it is ok if their idea isn't always the best one, but they can still contribute to make it even better.
20	Amanda Gullick-Wood	amanda.wood@tiogaisd.net	Making the learning personal in my Biology course, I want the students to apply the information to themselves and not just feel obligated to pass a test. For example, why does understanding how cells work and our bodies fight disease matter?	Design Thinking/Launch Cycle	YouTube, Google Classroom, Google Slides, KhanAcademy, Proquest, Human Body games, Biology junction	Yes. Students need to look at real world public health problems and then ask why. And then they need to research to understand the underlying problems. They can look at multiple platforms such as Pharmacuetical treatments, homeopathic, or nutrition therapy and create protoptypes that can be used by the public to combat cancer and disease.	There is no cure for cancer? Why? What keeps the cell cycle from failing? What can we do about it?	Science has very little black and white areas. It is constantly raising questions and we've advanced in our knowledge. Since I graduated in 2003, the amount of knowledge about Autoimmune disorders has grown tremendously, becuase scientists were always searching for the next question and it's answer
21	Amy Smith	amy.smith@chisd.net	Last year, you had to design your beginning-of-the-year sessions for a virtual classroom, and now you need to adapt them for face-to-face teaching.	Solve In Time	Goolge Meets, elink to track research resources, YouTube	Yes. We can test out the flip-classroom theory to see if it actually works and adjust when needed.	Do students have the support to complete work at home in order to be prepared for discussions and teacher facilitation? What do we need to put into place to ensure scholars get work done before coming to class? How can colleagues support students outside of school hours without having to be physically present or waiting on a Goolge Meet to answer questions?	To exhibit a tolerance for ambiguity means can the individual be flexible and open to ideas that are not definded. When conducting research everything will not be spelled out and for some people that is frustrating because they would rather know the answer then to have to deal with the unkown or unexpected. The trait is important to foster because life is very ambiguious. Life does not have a set definition or a way to doing things. Sometimes you have to be ready to deal with whatever may come your way.
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