🎤 ✏️ Welcome to our 2024 Elevating Teacher Voice discussion series, hosted by Jan Iwase. The format is simple. A guest educator will read out loud one of their blogs or essays, and then open up the session for discussion. No pre-work, no homework, no fuss, just deep listening, conversations and fellowship. At this gathering, Jan's guest will be WSCB Member, Garreth Heidt. Garreth has taught middle and high school students via a unique instructional approach to creativity and design thinking for more than 30 years. His curricula seeks to develop skills in critical viewing, question formation, civil discussion, problem finding, and problem solving. The learning process is driven by design-minded means to a unique educational end for his students, and is focused around two simple questions: “Why are things the way they are? How can we make them better?” He currently teaches a 10th grade Gifted Humanities, and is the Lead Learner and co-designer of his high school’s innovation and social entrepreneurship space, NOVA Lab. 🦋