We keep looking for a silver bullet to fix our system. And yet, we’re often ignoring

the best asset we have…

Our Teachers

Teachers are our most powerful

innovators.

What if teachers had the opportunity to collaborate beyond school walls?

What if we could bring together a global network of teachers to share insights and design for the future of education?

Welcome to

The Teachers Guild is run by by IDEO’s Design for Learning Studio and Riverdale Country School’s Delta Group.

We are a team of educators and designers who are inspired by teachers across the globe who innovate every day.

Design New Solutions Together

Use the design thinking process to tackle your biggest questions. Form teams, make each other’s ideas better, select favorites, and share your stories.

Get curious and go beyond what you know. These are not your own ideas yet! So, post inspirations by talking to students and gathering solutions outside education.

How might we as teachers better connect and communicate with our school communities.

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Questions We’ve Heard From Teachers

CURRICULUM

SPACES

PROCESSES AND TOOLS

SYSTEMS

How might we develop students to be active seekers of knowledge in subjects that they have little knowledge of? How might we help children from disadvantaged backgrounds increase their vocabulary?

How might we create a comfortable space that meets the many needs my students have throughout the day? How might we create an exciting & effective space for teachers to collaborate?

How might we engage parents as an integrated part of their students’ learning? How might we recruit the best teachers to our school? How might we re-envision arrival and departure procedures at our school?

How might we track the development of students’ character traits over time to help shape our school philosophy more intentionally? How might we connect more with our neighborhood community?

Let’s Transform Education Together!

Join us for a special SXSWedu Design Sprint

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What will I do at the workshop?

The Guild Team along with our Teacher Coaches will work side-by-side with you and your team. We will run through a design sprint on a Collaboration question suggested by teachers.

Tweet-Up

Tweet us your How Might We question and vote others up.

DISCOVER

Form teams. Brainstorm insights. Input discoveries and reflect on shared experiences.

IN PERSON DESIGN SPRINT

IDEATE

Form a new team. Discuss ideas. Input concepts. Share out and reflect.

EVOLE

Evolve your idea based on reflections and prototyping.

Pre-Session

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SELECT

Go through ideas and select your Favorites. Teachers who create selected Favorites will be announced and highlighted.

By building on each other’s ideas, we will amaze students, schools and the greater system with a flood

of new and better teacher designed solutions.

Dare to design with us.

Molly McMahon mmcmahon@ideo.com

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