Unleashing Innovation in Teachers
“In the future I am going to do something that scares me more often.” -Prior Big Ideas Fest 2014 Participant Reflections like the one above are what keep me coming back every year as a designer and facilitator of ISKME’s Big Ideas Fest — an annual immersion in...
Turn on, Tune in, Drop into Improv
We’ve built in “improv"–the improvisational method of achieving cooperation–into the DNA of Action Collabs that we offer at ISKME. Most recently, a writer from San Francisco’s KQED Mind/Shift called out our use of improv at our annual Big Ideas Fest. If you check out...
The Grand Escape: From the Solitary Classroom to a New Social Architecture
ISKME’s “Teachers Advancing Common Core Learning” project addresses teacher isolation by building networks of collaborators. The project is part of the Teacher Practice Networks Initiative, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Here’s a bird’s...
5 Questions for Ashanti Branch
Talk about Big Ideas Fest success stories. Ashanti Branch walked off the stage at Big Ideas Fest 2014 and onto the stage at Sundance Film Festival in early 2015, where he premiered his documentary, The Mask You Live In. A high school principal, Ashanti developed a...
Genetics Gets Personal with the ISKME & 23andMe Learning Challenge
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers; he's the one who asks the right questions. - Claude Lévi-Strauss Do you remember studying genetics in school? Perhaps you built a double helix model or filled in a Punnett square. The field of genetics...