To learn to think, students need powerful and inspiring models that reflect the design, citizenship, creativity, interdependence, affection, and self-awareness we claim to want them to have.
To teach careful, creative, and truly innovative thinking, students need creative spaces and tools, and frameworks to develop their own criteria for quality and success.
They need dynamic literacy skills that they practice and build upon endlessly.
Not projects that have creativity and design thinking added on, but projects that can’t function without them.
And they need control of it all.