UX for Good – Chicago, IL (2011)

One of the social challenges tackled at UX4Good was the reinvention of the American high school. The group that considered the challenge collaborated with education design initiative The Third Teacher to imagine how school works (or, just as often, doesn’t work) from the point of view of students. Now one of our UX4Good alumni has [...]

Participants in UX for Good 2011 chose the Public Education team as the winner of this year’s jury prize. Congratulations to the Public Education team members… Carolyn Chandler Vena Chitturi Chris Courtney Claire Goff Makoto Kern Dan Leu Victor Short Pete Simon Philip Weber Chelsea Winkel Special thanks to non-profit experts Stephanie Pace Marshall and [...]

Sarah Malin Day job: Design researcher, The Third Teacher Description: Sarah Malin provides The Third Teacher team an attention to the implicit values that drive a community and a keen ability to synthesize and articulate findings. Before her arrival to the design field, she studied anthropology and researched identity negotiation in Morocco’s urban centers. To [...]

Fixing Public Education in partnership with The Third Teacher Challenge Overview Our children have become “schooling disabled” in a learning abundant world. Our factory model of education is incapable of igniting and nurturing the intellectual energy and inventive genius of our children toward creating a better future. Learning is not a spectator sport; it is [...]

Stephanie Pace Marshall Day job: Founding President/President Emerita, Illinois Math & Science Academy Description: Stephanie Pace Marshall is the Founding President and President Emerita of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy –the nation’s first three-year public residential institution for high school-age students academically talented in science, mathematics and technology. She was also the founding president [...]

Trung Le Day job: Principal, Cannon Design Description: Trung Le is a pioneer of Cannon Design’s education practice. He has an incessant energy and passion for learning. Le is widely recognized as an advocate for incorporating multiple intelligences and learning styles in the design of education environments. As the international leader of Cannon Design’s education [...]

Trung Le – who will be working with the two UXXU teams tackling the redesign of public education – wrote a great piece this month for Fast Company.  It’s a profile of legendary educator Stephanie Pace Marshall, whom – we’re thrilled to announce – is also joining us to work with the public education teams! [...]