WHY IS THE I CAN MINDSET IMPORTANT?
Because children do not need permission to make the world a better place.
The I CAN Mindset equips every child to be
AWARE of the world around them
ENABLED with the skills to take action and
EMPOWERED to design a more desirable and sustainable future- TODAY!
When children are thus PREPARED,
The world one day, will no longer need to be REPAIRED.
4 EASY STEPS TO UNLEASH THE
I CAN SUPERPOWER
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FeelEXPLAINER VIDEO
FEEL
This step starts with asking you to slow down and 'understand' the situation before jumping to 'solve' it.
Why is it Important?
It develops EMPATHY.
When you want to design a better solution, you need to move from 'assumptions' to 'insights' - this happens when you engage with the user and design solutions 'WITH', instead of 'FOR' them. 
ImagineEXPLAINER VIDEO
IMAGINE
This step asks you to brainstorm solutions to improve, enrich, change the user experience.
Why is it important?
It develops ETHICS.
When you choose to offer a solution to change the current situation, it asks you to take the 'responsibility' for the same. This mindset helps you believe that you are NOT helpless, change IS possible and YOU can drive it!
DoEXPLAINER VIDEO
DO
This step is about creative agency and the ability to take timely action.
Why is it Important?
It develops EXCELLENCE.
'Action' that follows 'intention' results in desired 'impact'. Furthermore, the focus on details allows the action to improve the 'quality' of the experience, building a habit for excellence.
ShareEXPLAINER VIDEO
MEET THE SUPERHEROES
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Come As You Are
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The Water Guardians
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Healing Child Cancer Patients
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A Safer Neighbourhood for All Children
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Creating a Community Garden
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The Real Social Network: Seeing Past Digital Relationships
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The Power of Language: Wisdom of the Inga Community
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A Toy Plane to Reforest Valleys
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Young Environmental Leaders of Lynn
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The Recycling Wheel
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Response-ability: Helping a Disabled Student
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Fighting Prejudices Against Homosexuality
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Immigrant or Not, You Are My Friend!
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Including Children With Special Needs
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Bringing Light to the Dreams of Blind Kids
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Combating High Drop-Out Rates
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Discovering Teaching-Learning Materials from Waste
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Securing the School Wall
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A Canteen for All
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Bamboo-zled!
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Lobbying for Free Range Milk
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Our Safe Way to School
GET INSPIRED
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Kiran Bir Sethi awarded the Vital Voice honoree 2018
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Design for -Change A Champion of learning through play
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Design for Change- Teacher Prize
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A message for all the superheroes!
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What is Design for Change?
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Design for Change - Global Impact
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TED talk- Kiran Bir Sethi
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Dr Howard Gardner on Design for Change
LETS GET STARTED!
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use the FIDS framework
A WORLD OF SUPERHEROES
Design for Change has a global footprint in more than 60 countries. The stories of change from some of the countries can be viewed below in the
LIVE DATA map. Please click All years to view the stories since 2009, you can click on the blue slider to view stories from any year, hover on any one country to get the data at a glance.
To see the stories specific from one country, click on the country and view stories using the filter options- by year, by category, by story type or by language. Click on a specific dot to view the details of the story.
To view stories from another country please click on the back button.
Excited to light up the world with your story of change!
Participate in the Design for Change school challenge in your respective country and submit your story.
Impact
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1 Countries
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1 Stories of change
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1 Teachers trained in FIDS
HAPPENINGS
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Blurring the Boundaries Between School and Life
Kiran Bir Sethi's interview with the WISE- QATAR where she talk about the pedagogy at Riverside School which has a single-minded focus : student wellbeing. Read what she has to say about her approach to education.
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Edutopia features Riverside School
Glimpse through some of the most insightful practices shared by Edutopia on Riverside School that makes this school a beacon of hope today, the curriculum designed using the simple FIDS framework is shaping young lives not only at Riverside but also in more than 60 countries across the world!!
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Kiran Bir Sethi awarded the Vital Voice honoree 2018
Kiran Sethi was awarded the Vital Voices Global Leadership Award in Washington DC on 4th April, 2018.
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DFC signed a collaboration with OIEC
The International Organization of Catholic Schools- that takes Design for Change to over 240,000 schools worldwide, and Scholas Occurrentes - the organization that the Pope created in Argenitna in 2001, to make students from public and private schools take action- that takes Design for Change to over 446,000 schools worldwide
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DFC Recognized By hundrED
DESIGN for CHANGE, the largest movement for children, has been announced by global education non-profit HundrED, as one of its 100 innovative education projects across the world, all of which have been gathered over the past two years.
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Wendy Kopp shares about Riverside
Wendy Kopp (CEO & Founder of Teach for America) Last year I visited Global Teacher Prize winner Kiran Bir Sethi, who founded the Riverside School in Ahmedabad, India, 15 years ago.
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Riverside featured in Taking Design Thinking to School
Taking Design Thinking to School: How the Technology of Design Can Transform Teachers, Learners, and Classrooms uses an action-oriented approach to reframing K-12 teaching and learning, examining interventions that open up dialogue about when and where learning, growth and empowerment can be triggered.
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'Re-imagine Learning Challenge'
Design for Change was selected as one of the Top 10 Champions of the Re-imagine Learning Challenge by the LEGO Foundation and Ashoka.
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'Global Teacher Prize' Recognition
Kiran Sethi, Founder- Design for Change was selected as one of the Top 10 Finalists for the Global Teacher Prize. Organized by the Varkey Foundation, in March 2015
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DFC Receives Top Good Practice Award.
Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Perry Christie, presented the first place prize for the Commonwealth Education Good Practice Awards to Dr. Satbir Bedi, Joint Secretary for the School of Education in the Ministry of Human Resources Development of India.
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DFC Mentioned on THE GLOBAL GOALS website
World Leaders have committed to 17 Global Goals to achieve 3 extraordinary things in the next 15 years. End extreme poverty. Fight inequality & injustice. Fix climate change. DFC has been recognized as one of the action steps to reach these Global Goals.
