When teachers solve problems, they inspire their students to solve problems, too. How can teachers use their best strategies as a launching pad for deeper learning and professional growth? And how can curiosity, co-creation, and collaboration before a lesson idea is formed be a game-changer for classroom practice?

On this episode of Tch Talks, Ashley Lamb-Sinclair, Instructional Specialist and Deeper Learning Coach for Fern Creek High School in Louisville, Kentucky and 2016 Kentucky Teacher of the Year, joins us to talk about her work with School Startup. This pilot program is where three cohorts of Teacher-Founders are engaged in the design process to rethink and redesign deeper learning in their classrooms and professional learning communities.

She also shares her recent adventures as founder and CEO of Curio Learning, an app that helps teachers discover new ideas and curate them in a personalized way. The app also facilitates collaboration with other educators in order for them to grow as professionals and find the ways to best help their students.

Ashley believes that if every teacher woke up to the awesome influence he or she has, there would be a drastic overhaul of the system and that -- bottom line -- it takes a teacher to transform learning.

Resources:

• Follow Ashley Lamb-Sinclair on Twitter
• Explore Ashley’s blog: Beautiful Junkyard
• Ashley Lamb-Sinclair’s work featured in The Washington Post
• Ashley Lamb-Sinclair’s work featured in The Atlantic
• Are You Teaching Content Or Teaching Thought? - Teach Thought
• School Start-Up
• Curio Learning
• Follow Curio on Twitter
• Follow #TeachLikeARebel on Twitter
• Curio Journal on Medium
• Sevenzo
• Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
• True School Studio
• Design Thinking for Educators
• 45 Design Thinking Resources for Educators
• The d.school Bootcamp Bootleg
• Design Thinking Mixtapes
• Tools for Taking Action
• Deep Design Thinking
• Luma Institute

Teaching Channel Resources:

• Pinwheel Discussions: Texts in Conversation
• Tcher's Cut: Pinwheel Discussions
• Design Thinking, Empathy, and Equity
• Design Thinking, Empathy, and Equity – Part 2
• Critical Friends: Building a Culture of Collaboration
• 4 Big Ideas for Engaging Students (Deeper Learning)
• Deeper Learning Video Series
• Critical Friends: Building a Culture of Collaboration