The Design Team’s Journey

GET AHEAD BY GETTING TOGETHER, DESIGNING TOGETHER, AND GROWING TOGETHER

The design team's journey fosters innovation by integrating empathy, healing, and radical inclusion. Centering marginalized voices, addressing historical inequities, and using an iterative, reflective process enable transformative solutions. By aligning equitable practices with product outcomes, teams co-create sustainable, inclusive systems that model the future they seek to build.

Leverage Web 3.0, the Metaverse, and blockchain to create educational third spaces prioritizing justice and healing. These technologies enable immersive, decentralized environments where diverse voices co-design inclusive learning experiences, fostering a more equitable and connected community. Gain a support system and experience an immersive community designed for transformation.

What is The Design’s Team Journey?

Guided by the foundational frameworks and their advanced evolution, this experience empowers emergent leaders—teachers, assistant principals, coaches, staff, and social impact practitioners—to drive lasting, transformative change in schools, organizations, communities, and beyond.

This isn’t about incremental progress but bold leaps toward building and sustaining justice, human-centered, thriving ecosystems.

Through personalized design challenges delivered directly to your inbox, we remix organizational functions with transformation and justice, providing actionable steps to reimagine practices and systems. Each challenge is crafted to push boundaries, spark creativity, and inspire courageous leadership in education and social impact sectors alike.

The Design Team’s Journey bridges the gap in leadership development by providing a cohesive, human-centered growth experience. Through transformative practices, expert mentorship, and practical application, your team gains the tools to foster and design justice, healing, and high-quality learning experiences.

This is more than leadership development—a call to action for systemic change, empowering you to cultivate equitable, thriving ecosystems that create lasting impact. Are you ready to leap?

INCLUDES

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Access to three courses + Gladys, The Equity Co-Pilot: Design Achievement at the Margins, Cede Power, Make the Invisible Visible

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Weekly equity-centered design challenges to activate teams for equitable change in schools, learning, and organizations.

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Live bi-weekly debriefs, Banned Book in the Metaverse sessions, and access to the Liberation Library.

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Unlimited access to our community and resource library.

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Earn a limited edition NFT and get lifetime access to our exclusive micro-credentials.

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Earn 15 CEUs, a digital badge, and a wallet to hold your equity learning credentials.

Your Journey Starts Here

  • This foundational course introduces participants to the equityXdesign process and focuses on bringing the voices of the marginalized, such as students, into the design process. Participants will engage with key concepts in designing for equity, learn how to create transformative empathy, explore the intersection of COVID-19 and racism, and iterate on equitable design solutions.

  • Equitable design demands that practices and power balances change and evolve — that we redefine roles, revalue ways of knowing, and reassess the ways we reach decisions. During this third course module, participants will explore the relationships between the following design principles: Design at Margins, Start with Self, and Cede Power. Participants will also create a shared language to talk about race, equity, innovation, and design, and practice using that language in order to see and define problems. At the end of the learning experience, participants will be able to assess their own leadership stances, innovations, and the design process. Participants will learn to speak the future and design the future as they test their new equitable innovations on a small scale.

    This learning experience is for leaders, teachers, edge finders and edge movers looking to expand their understanding and perspective of observed equity challenges.

  • Relationships are often governed by preexisting assumptions that can perpetuate exclusionary assumptions and biased practices. By making them visible, we can assess their impact and create a space for reflection and repair. During this final course module, participants will explore the relationships between the following design principles: Design at Margins, Start with Self, and Make the Invisible Visible. In the course, we will explore metrics and data that will assess how our classrooms, schools, and organizations are becoming more equitable. Participants will learn how to have their equitable innovations grow deep roots and scale in their school and/or organization—they will learn to speak and design the future as they test their new equitable innovations on a small scale.

    This learning experience is for leaders, teachers, edge finders and edge movers looking for new ways of integrating equitable practices and new relationships into their leadership and organizational structure.

For Schools, Organizations, and You!

Imagine equipping your leaders with the tools, frameworks, and support to foster truly equitable and thriving communities. The Design Team’s Journey is more than a program—it’s a comprehensive approach to leadership development that integrates the equityXdesign 3.0 framework and equity-centered challenges to drive lasting, transformative change in your learning environment.

Let’s explore how the Design Team’s Journey can fit into your leadership development strategy and help your team take bold leaps toward equity, inclusion, and systemic impact.

Inquire today to start the conversation!