Kaleb Rashad, Ed.D. & Eric Chagala, Ed.D. have experience creating new schools & school transformation efforts. From designing and leading innovative schools to creating systems to sustain the work.
Key Skills & Experiences Include
Skills
All have expert-level theoretical understandings about how children and adults learn, organizational learning, and change theory. Most importantly, each group member holds, values and cultivates key habits of MIND and HEART (as described by the Coalition of Essential Schools) which supports critical and co-generative thinking. “Habits of Mind” are, in part, ways of problem solving and “Habits of Heart” are, in part, about caring for others, identifying with and honoring different ways of seeing the world. Skills which are Indispensable to this work.
Key Skills & Experiences Include
- Current Founding Principal of the Vista Innovation & Design Academy (VIDA)
- Current Creative Director of High Tech High Graduate School of Education
- Led the implementation of inquiry-based learning and cultural transformation in high-poverty, public schools
- Designed and helped start of Design39Campus
- Stanford d.School Trained
- Center for Adaptive Schools Trained
- Record of leading projects at both the school, district and state-level
- Graduate School of Education Faculty: Leading Innovative Schools
- Secured funding from Verizon and Qualcomm to provide technology for students
Skills
- Innovative Leadership
- Human-Centered, Equity-Driven Design
- Education Leadership Research
- Project Management
- Grant Management
- Talent Growth and Development
All have expert-level theoretical understandings about how children and adults learn, organizational learning, and change theory. Most importantly, each group member holds, values and cultivates key habits of MIND and HEART (as described by the Coalition of Essential Schools) which supports critical and co-generative thinking. “Habits of Mind” are, in part, ways of problem solving and “Habits of Heart” are, in part, about caring for others, identifying with and honoring different ways of seeing the world. Skills which are Indispensable to this work.