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Action Collabs have been designed as action-based, brainstorming and problem-solving experiences, in which participants will use new tools, skills, and learnings to create educational impact at the student, institution, and national levels. Facilitated small-groups will identify opportunities for change, design possible solutions, test and prototype creations, and present ideas back to the group at large.
Action Collab 1: Identifying Opportunities
Revisit familiar educational problems with fresh eyes. Consider voices that might challenge your world view. Knowledge collaboration is essential to solving big, intractable problems.
Action Collab 2: Design
Build on the research done in Action Collab 1. Create a range of potential solutions that explore a broad range of possible programs, from not-yet-created to already in existence. Design encourages a multitude of thoughts.
Action Collab 3: Prototype
Experiment with your Action Collab 2 ideas in a low-risk/high-learning environment. Act out a new service. Sketch out a website. Create paper models. Build a new school out of cardboard. Create an idea of something you can share with others. Embrace failure as an indicator of open thinking toward plausible solutions.
Action Collab 4: Scale and Spread
In a short amount of time, you have created a kernel of an idea. Now is the time to share it with the group through storytelling, video, or another type of presentation. Focus on the audience needed for your idea to proliferate.
Action Collab Co-Designers
Jonah Houston, IDEO Designer
Dr. Lisa Petrides, ISKME President
Action Collab Leaders
Chris Miller
Dr. Erin O'Connell
Dale Dougherty
Eda Roth
Action Collab Facilitators
Jonah Houston
Elizabeth Doty
Cathy Goerz
Betsy Hasegawa
Carl Mack
Andrea Savari
Megan Simmons
Tom Stat
Samantha Wayne
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| Lab Leaders |
 Chris Miller has been performing and teaching improv for almost 20 years. He co-founded LifePlays, which brings the powerfully transformative and connective skills of improv to communities and innovative workplaces, such as Google, Genentech, Microsoft, and Whole Foods. |
 Dr. Erin O’Connell teaches Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Her scholarly interests include ancient and modern comparisons and the reception of classical literature, performance, and philosophy. |
 Dale Dougherty is the founding editor and publisher of Make magazine, which focuses on innovative Do-It-Yourself (DIY) technology projects. He is the creator of Maker Faire, and General Manager of Maker Media at O'Reilly Media. |
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 Eda Roth is an actress and consultant specializing in bringing theatre based skills to professional communications. She teaches presentation and communication skills and works extensively in the area of leadership, helping executives to develop clear messages and effectively engage others.
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| Lab Facilitators |
 Lead Facilitator: Jonah Houston, product and systems designer
Houston is a senior project leader at IDEO in Palo Alto. He works on a wide variety of projects ranging from medical devices, office furniture, consumer electronics, food and beverage, and large-scale systems design. |
 Elizabeth Doty, organizational learning consultant, coach, educator
Since 1993, Doty’s firm, WorkLore, has focused on diagnosing breakdowns and dysfunctions in large, complex organizations, helping clients such as Intuit, Hewlett-Packard, and Archstone-Smith capitalize on hidden opportunities to improve performance. |
 Cathy Goerz, creative producer, workshop facilitator, filmmaker
Goerz is a multi-faceted Creative Catalyst who is passionate about inspiring positive change through communications. Whether she’s leading workshops, producing video or working the phones on a press tour, Catherine brings infectious bright energy, creative agility and insightful business acumen. |
 Dr. Betsy Hasegawa, organizational consultant, educator, researcher
Hasegawa’s research, teaching, writing, and practice have focused on adaptive leadership, adult development, groups and organizational systems, including issues of authority and leadership, the politics of diversity, managing complex organizational systems, and developing sustainable organizations and communities. |
 Dr. Carl Mack, cultural diversity, group dynamics, human relations consultant and facilitator
For the past 35 years, Mack has worked at all levels of education including teaching elementary and university students, chairing both Ethnic Studies and African and African American Studies at UC Davis, and serving as a public school superintendent. |
 Andrea Savari, foresight and strategy developer, researcher, sense-maker
Savari applies insights from futures research and emerging technologies to develop strategy and market opportunities. Recently, she created a 2020 forecast of the future context for education, including a map of key trends driving change, disruptive innovation areas, and implications for re-designing public learning systems. |
 Megan Simmons, teacher, trainer, environmental educator
Simmons supports the development of education programs, workshops, and training activities for the OER Commons project at ISKME. She is particularly passionate about providing environmental education and art programs to underserved communities nationally and internationally. |
 Tom Stat, business developer, designer
Stat is an Associate Partner at IDEO and a member of IDEO’s global relationship design community helping to manage a number of IDEO’s key client relationships and directing business development efforts across all IDEO practice areas. |
 Samantha Wayne, social marketer
Wayne loves contributing to the growth, power, and creativity of communities. Her background includes facilitating group therapy sessions, teaching college courses, training unemployed adults the importance of networking, and managing after school art programs. She dances on the ledge of knowledge. |
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