he Design Initiatives team collaborates with partner school districts and community organizations, as well as with Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College students, faculty and staff, to develop innovative solutions to the “wicked” problems in education. To
achieve this, we use an intentional, collaborative, open-ended design process that values local context, diverse perspectives, intrapreneurial thinking and iterative testing of solutions.
“Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.” — Herbert Simon
The following eight strategies encourage you to think productively, rather than reproductively, in order to arrive at solutions to problems. \"These strategies are common to the thinking styles of creative geniuses in science, art, and industry throughout
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references and index..