Collaborations

At D39C, we are constantly researching best practices, visiting innovative schools and businesses, and collaborating with great thinkers in the world of business and education. We are grabbing and using the best of everything we have discovered to create a school that meets the needs of every individual learner on campus. Here is an updated and growing list of people, places, and research that inspire and inform our work here at Design39Campus.

Current Collaborators/Site Visits

Alyssa Gallagher

*Greg Horowitt

Jordan Greenhall

  • Deep thinker, synthesizer

  • San Diego, California

Michael Floyd

  • Deep thinker, programer

  • San Diego, California

Grant Lichtman

Kathleen McCloskey and Barbara Bay

  • Personalized Learning (UDL)

  • Wakefield, Massachusetts

Cary Matsuoka

Will Richardson

Lectica

  • "We develop and deliver diagnostic, formative, embeddable, low stakes standardized assessments of core skills and concepts."

  • Cambridge, Massachusetts

David Kelly

Jackie Gerstein

  • @JackieGerstein

  • Boise, Idaho

box

  • Los Altos, California

*Paul Carff

  • Google

  • Mountain View, California

Jo Boaler - Stanford

*Howard Chan - King Chaves Neighborhood of Schools

  • Website

  • @socratech

  • San Diego, California

Schools/Programs/Site Visits

PDS

  • Presbyterian Day School

  • Adaptive Learning System around math (.csv format)

  • Memphis, TN

Parish Episcopal

  • Faculty Evaluation Plan

  • Dallas, Texas

Realm Charter School

  • Berkeley, California

*Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School

  • School garden

  • Berkeley, California

Santa Rosa Academy

  • Piloting K-5 PLTW Launch

  • Menifee, CA

*Sabot - Virginia

  • "We’re committed to intellectually challenging education that develops children’s capacities for creative problem-solving, collaboration, and disciplined research; cultivates the respectful exchange of ideas; and brings meaning and joy to learning."

  • Richmond, Virginia

d.school: Institute of Design at Stanford

*Camarena Elementary School

  • Chula Vista, CA

*High Tech High

  • Chula Vista, CA

*High Tech Middle

  • Chula Vista, CA

*High Tech Elementary

  • Chula Vista, CA

*Vista Innovation and Design Academy (VIDA)

  • Vista, CA

Books

Scott Doorley & Scott Witthoft - Make Space

David and Tom Kelly - Creative Confidence

Tony Wagner - Creating Innovators

Tony Wagner - The Global Achievement Gap

Jo Boaler - What's Math Got To Do With It

Steven Farr - Teaching as Leadership

Sylvia Libow Martinez & Gary Stager - Invent to Learn