The Class:Lab

what is the class:lab?

A two-day professional education program for educators practicing project-based learning at high school or university levels. The course helps you completely redesign your course from the ground up, transform your classroom teaching experience and leave with several months worth of teaching material.

What makes it special?

The Class:Lab was created from the ground-up to help educators rethink their classroom experience from scratch in a safe space and introduce design-doing in a meaningful way. The heart of the experience is the wall-size canvas created specifically for educators to be able to see your entire course in one place and physically move about to shape aspects of your classroom experience.

What is design-doing ?

It's our response to the limitations of design-thinking which does not play sufficient emphasis on doing. We re-conceived the design-thinking process as a series of jobs rather than a collection of spaces or methods. You can choose to grow up and become a specialist in any of these jobs.

why should you do it ?

Because you have rarely designed your course; you usually inherit it or increment it. Because designing your course is meant to be exciting and fun, but here you are doing it all alone behind your computer.

Who else is doing it ?

Riverfield Country Day School in Tulsa, Oklahoma has been running on this approach from K-12 for the past four years and happy to give you a tour.