Innovation Design Incubator
A Maker Space for Teachers—Create, Collaborate, Change Learning!
How It Works
This is professional learning that’s hands-on, high-impact, and job-embedded.
Flexible Scheduling
Incubator Format
Expert Coaching & Guest Speakers
Balanced Facilitation
Sessions scheduled at your convenience and tailored to your district’s needs.
Participants engage in a facilitated design thinking process that encourages learning, curiosity, collaboration, reflection, and creativity.
Teachers receive personalized support and insights from leaders in authentic learning as they create their own authentic learning curriculum.
Combines group interaction, individual work time, and targeted coaching to ensure ideas become actionable and students benefit from the change to learning.
In three sessions, teachers:
Learn authentic learning design and innovate the curriculum for their classrooms
Collaborate with like-minded educators
Engage in deeper learning about the principles of authentic learning design
What to Expect
Innovation Design Incubators harness design thinking tools and strategies to enhance the creation of authentic learning experiences in all classroom contexts.
Incubators are the perfect combination of learning, collaboration, and curriculum creation!
Why It Works
We know what makes professional learning stick—and this incubator is designed with that in mind.
Equipping educators with modern strategies for authentic and experiential learning.
Upskills Teachers
Connecting academic content to today’s greatest learning needs—student engagement, deeper learning, relevance, and real-world applications.
Centers Authentic Learning Strategies
Designed with the evidence base that shows educators need about 25 hours of hands-on learning, practice, and reflection to create real change in learning.
Built to Last
Teachers work on real curriculum challenges with ongoing coaching to ensure the student experience is transformed.
Job-Embedded
& Practical
Research-backed methods that lead to lasting teacher growth and increased student impact.
Rooted in Collaboration
& Reflection
What’s Included
Three Full-Day Sessions
Customized and scheduled to fit your needs
Authentic Learning Incubator
Tailored to align to the teaching and learning needs of each classroom
Expert Facilitation & Coaching
Personal, high-impact support throughout
Upcoming Events
Tue, Oct 28Authentic Learning Grab and Go Virtual PD
Why Partner with Us?
We help educators bring meaningful change to their classrooms through:
Authentic learning in all
content areas
Alignment to literacy goals, district initiatives, and Portrait of a Graduate competencies
Integration of career readiness and future-of-work skills
Proven, research-based strategies that drive sustainable instructional change
"This Design Incubator was a great experience for me personally. I loved having time to actually sit down, digest the durable and future learning skills that are essential to this job skill set. I have really enjoyed thinking through the long-term authentic goals I need my students to meet."
— HS Art Teacher, Big Walnut Schools