ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at two projects from the United States that bring a historical perspective to the introduction of design thinking to the K12 school environment. Considering the potential of design in revealing complicated or complex conditions as precursors to transformative change, the WonderLab and Design Rounds vignettes pull sense-making into the space of co-design practices. Design thinking is grounded in deploying a designer’s toolkit to bring the needs of people to the potential of technology, for the requirements of business. The co-design practice vignettes operate at a different scale. School Retool is a fellowship program implemented by the K12 Lab Network at Stanford d.school in collaboration with IDEO and school leaders across the country. It focuses on working with school leaders around specific mindsets that underlie the design process.
