Educators! Here’s a quick equity-driven empathy tool to learn more about the strengths, hopes and anxieties of your students’ parent/caregiver for this coming school year. We have one for students too!! http://www.designschoolx.org/your-tools

From the official Podcast Page for the U.S. Embassy in Wellington, New Zealand. Just discovered this while researching how/where #liberatorydesign is being practiced. I thoroughly enjoyed this brief moment and interview about being an edu-agitator (needed during this opportunity to redesign how we deliver "school"). from August 2019.

Thank you @regularblackbruja

Happy Father’s Day! Here is a video from Building Up Boys, a new org that David Clifford has had the privilege of working with. The invitation here, particularly for white and white presenting fathers, is to have “the Talk” with your kids about racism, anti-blackness, misogyny, and own your racism, anti-blackness, and misogyny AND share what you’re doing about it. It’s one thing to be a father, it’s another to be an active anti-racist, anti-misogyny father. Model the courage to feel, to be anti-racist and to love. I’m practicing my Talk (and listen) today.

Watch through and through. Look within through and through. Examine your school culture and curriculum through and through. What are you and your school committing to today, and the next, and the next, and the next...... 

A school's schedule is a manifestation of its vision, values and skills. What kind of schedule will your school have when the quarantine is lifted? This brief video shares how DSX (design school x) designed a schedule to design graduates that could navigate uncertainty with equity and creativity. More can be found at www.designschoolx.org David Clifford Founder Corrina Hui Founding Equity Designer and Schedule Wiz

Honored to have been asked to share. Thank you David Pinedo at @life_during_quarantine.

Thank you @susiewise for sharing this article.

Thank you, Dr. Rebecca Hong for sharing this. A good and poignant read.

Social Justice Superhero for the taking and trying. 50 zines were dropped off Brett Hart M.S., one of OUSD’s Grab & Go locations. If this is your spot or naighborhood, please take one for each of your students at home ages 11-24. I’ll try to have more for next Tuesday. This unit was orginally designed for middle school students in 2014 to use design practices to locate their inner social justice super hero. It has recently been revised, designed with a particular “user” in mind: those at the margins of doing equity/social justice Work--white boys ages 11-24. After deep empathy work with this demographic, this new version emerged with a goal of inviting their equity-centered creative courage to see themselves as agents for liberating change. We at DSX feel all might benefit from trying it too. If you try it, please send feedback so it/we can improve! If you have a printer, make some! Share them with a friend or neighbor or even drop some off at your local school. The PDF can be found under Tools on the website. #liberatorydesign #socialjusticesuperhero #dsxoak #x-shapedhumans (at Harte Bret Middle School) https://www.instagram.com/p/B968babheu9/?igshid=owido3faf4mv

DSX would like to offer the Social Justice Superhero Project. It was designed for 11-24 year-olds to help see themselves self as change-agents in their world. This project invites them to develop Liberatory Design Mindsets to explore their superpowers, emotions, beliefs, community, creativity, and leadership in relationship with their world in order to build a strong sense of purpose in designing for equity. (Foldable ‘zine HERE). If a printer is not available to you please contact DSX and we will send you some or you can use the link to draw your own ‘zine with paper and pen!

So you want to build X-shaped humans? What if your alphabet doesn’t have an X? What then? Time for an #equitypause. @Yodernz explores how even our alphabets can embed bias into our designs. #liberatorydesign @BomaNewZealand

In 2010, Tim Brown, the co-founder of IDEO, proposed the idea of a T-shaped person: someone with both depth and breadth of skills. What makes a T-shaped person special is empathy. But our world of ever-increasing complexity calls for people who bring more than empathy and more than knowledge. In this thought-provoking talk, David Clifford offers a new model to build embodied, purposeful, self-aware, ethical, creative people.  This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

Very excited that our X-shaped human is featured in this piece by Dr. Cheryl Doig @CherylDoig. The DSX X-shaped school model explores how to build the environment that invites and fosters the X in all of us. 

Yes!