John Nash
University Council for Educational Administration, Headquarters, Associate Director for Communication
John B. Nash is an associate professor of Educational Leadership Studies at the University of Kentucky. John is a specialist in the design and prototyping of innovations in education. He teaches courses on design thinking, school technology leadership, and school reform. His current research agenda focuses on the methods to design and prototype innovations in education. John is also the director of UK’s Laboratory on Design Thinking in Education (dLab). The dLab promotes and studies the application of human-centered design, bringing community members together to create new solutions to previously unsolved challenges.
John has held faculty positions at Iowa State University and the University of Texas at El Paso. As a social research scientist at Stanford University, John held associate directorship positions in two laboratories: the Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning (SCIL), and the Stanford Learning Laboratory, where he managed interdisciplinary and international teams of research scientists examining the effects of innovative technologies on learning. While at Stanford he co-founded the Open Eye Group, a firm with headquarters in the U.S. and Sweden, focused on bringing design thinking to schools and communities.
Supervisors: Colleen Capper, Larry Leifer, and Stig Hagström
John has held faculty positions at Iowa State University and the University of Texas at El Paso. As a social research scientist at Stanford University, John held associate directorship positions in two laboratories: the Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning (SCIL), and the Stanford Learning Laboratory, where he managed interdisciplinary and international teams of research scientists examining the effects of innovative technologies on learning. While at Stanford he co-founded the Open Eye Group, a firm with headquarters in the U.S. and Sweden, focused on bringing design thinking to schools and communities.
Supervisors: Colleen Capper, Larry Leifer, and Stig Hagström
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"[T]his book is a worthwhile resource for those seeking to learn to systemically apply design in education and to effect change and improvement for the schools and students they serve." -Teachers College Record
"[T]here is much that any educational leader or practitioner interested in design thinking will like and find useful in the book." -Teachers College Record
From the Back Cover
"Schools were not built for the adults who work there. They were built for the students and the communities they serve. John Nash provides a 'how-to' guide for using design thinking principles in our schools. When we understand and empathize with our end users, we are able to create and test possible solutions to any problem we face. If you follow the blueprint laid out by Nash, you will be able to meet the changing needs of the next generation of students."
--Nick Polyak, superintendent, Leyden School District 212, Illinois
"The education sector continues to careen into a period of social change of historical proportions, and Design Thinking in Schools is perfectly timed for school leaders navigating turbulent waters. This accessible guide for school change keeps students and teachers at the center of the work to ensure deep, meaningful, sustainable, and long overdue shifts in traditional schooling."
--Chad S. Ratliff, lab schools principal, Albemarle County Public Schools, Virginia
Reviews
"[T]his book is a worthwhile resource for those seeking to learn to systemically apply design in education and to effect change and improvement for the schools and students they serve." -Teachers College Record
"[T]here is much that any educational leader or practitioner interested in design thinking will like and find useful in the book." -Teachers College Record
From the Back Cover
"Schools were not built for the adults who work there. They were built for the students and the communities they serve. John Nash provides a 'how-to' guide for using design thinking principles in our schools. When we understand and empathize with our end users, we are able to create and test possible solutions to any problem we face. If you follow the blueprint laid out by Nash, you will be able to meet the changing needs of the next generation of students."
--Nick Polyak, superintendent, Leyden School District 212, Illinois
"The education sector continues to careen into a period of social change of historical proportions, and Design Thinking in Schools is perfectly timed for school leaders navigating turbulent waters. This accessible guide for school change keeps students and teachers at the center of the work to ensure deep, meaningful, sustainable, and long overdue shifts in traditional schooling."
--Chad S. Ratliff, lab schools principal, Albemarle County Public Schools, Virginia