DESIGN TECH HIGH SCHOOL
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Mission Statement
Design Tech High School is a free, public high school that is partnering with the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University to personalize the learning experience so that students graduate innovation ready. Public Education in the United States is facing a critical challenge: how to close the achievement gaps among K-12 students and meet significantly increased expectations for all of the nation's’ high school graduates to be college- and career –ready. Our schools educate to fill children with knowledge —while all the research shows us that they should be focusing on developing students’ innovation skills and motivation to succeed.
About This Cause
Our mission at Dtech is for our students to be Disruptive innovators. It is our mission to ignite a passion for learning and to inspire our students to become self-motivated, enthusiastic participants in their education. We honor the uniqueness of each individual. We believe at DTech that innovation can be taught. The five key skills that disruptive innovator’s possess: the cognitive skill of associating and the behavioral skills of questioning/explore, observing, networking/collaborating, and experimenting/prototyping. • Explore problem space allows innovators to challenge the status quo and consider new possibilities; • Build empathy for end users helps innovators detect small details — in the activities of customers, suppliers and other companies — that suggest new ways of doing things; • Collaboration permits innovators to gain radically different perspectives from individuals with diverse backgrounds; • Prototyping/testing prompts innovators to relentlessly try out new experiences, take things apart and test new ideas; • Creative Confidence — drawing connections among questions, problems or ideas from unrelated fields — is triggered by questioning, observing, networking and experimenting and is the catalyst for creative ideas.