Dan Ryder is an award-winning educator by trade, generalist by practice, and he's a 20-year veteran teacher and improv coach at CRCS Overman in Skowhegan, Maine. As a part-time education consultant, Dan offers customized professional development experiences in design thinking, project based learning, technology integration, standards-based education, curriculum design, critical creativity, and improvisation around the United States and beyond.

Elyse Burden is passionate about equity and elevating the voice, role, and contributions of young people as they do work that matters to them. At Real World Scholars, she and her team work to give students the opportunity and resources needed to be changemakers and social entrepreneurs in their communities – not one day, but right now. Elyse believes in creative solutions and recognizing that young people are brilliant, creative, and angry enough to help the world find solutions to some of our scariest challenges.

References from this episode:

Dan Ryder (@WickedDecent)

CRCS Overman (https://www.crcsme.org/overman-academy)

Elyse Burden (@LyzBurden)

Real World Scholars (www.realworldscholars.org)

d.school - The Input Obsession (LINK)

"The Artist's Way" by Julia Cameron (LINK)

"It Didn't Start with You" by Mark Wolynn (LINK)

"Design Is Storytelling" by Ellen Lupton (LINK)

"Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore" by Dan Ozzi (LINK)

"salt." by Nayyirah Waheed (LINK)

Connect:

Michael Crawford, PhD (https://twitter.com/mjcraw), (https://www.mjcraw.com)

Dr. Jane Shore (https://twitter.com/shorejaneshore)

School of Thought (https://schoolofthought.substack.com/)

Revolution School (https://revolutionschool.org/)

Community of Thought Gatherings (https://www.paispa.org/community-of-thought-gatherings)

Pennsylvania Association of Independent Schools (PAIS) (https://www.paispa.org/)

Michael Lipset, PhD of PassTell Stories (http://www.michaellipset.com/)

Music from Digi G'Alessio CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (https://bit.ly/2IyV71i)