Cardboard Classroom

"In The Cardboard Classroom, authors Doug Robertson and Jennifer Borgioli Binis provide educators with strategies and tools to adopt design-minded teaching in their classrooms. By incorporating design thinking in their teaching practices, teachers create a learning environment conducive to creativity and critical thinking and supportive of students taking ownership of their learning. The authors explain the five stages of the design process-(1) define, (2) design, (3) build, (4) test and revise, and (5) reflect-and demonstrate with real-world examples how this process can be incorporated in various subjects and grade levels. By reading this book, elementary teachers and administrators engage in a comprehensive and candid exploration of the design mindset and approach"--