Emily Pilloton: Teaching Design For Change

Emily is talking about Public Education around her hometown. She lives in Bertie County: Virginia.
out of 3 Children living in Poverty.
They jobs are agricultural: They Mostly sell cotton, Tobacco, Peanuts.
The Biggest Employer is the Purdue Chicken processing plant.
Windsor is home to 2,000 people it’s a small town.
In Windsor the building are not in use or they need repairing.
There is no Walmart, Internet Café, and Or Coffee shop.
Windsor is 60 percent African American.
Most of the White people go to a private school like the Laurence Academy.
The Public schools is about 86 percent African American.
There is no pool of qualified teachers that can teach in Public schools.
Only 8 Percent of the County has a Bachelors Degree.
There’s not a Legacy of the pride of Education.
Only 27 percent of the 3RD – 8Th Graders in Bertie County pass Their End of Grade Exams.
Dr. Z was brought in October of 2007 to be a Super attendant to fix the broken school System.
He started one of the first Charter schools in the US.
That’s why she lives where he lives.
Dr. Z invited Private H design a non Profit group.
She is a Partner with Dr. Z
The group has a certain design Process.
Project H Design
Design through action
Design with, not for.
Design systems, not stuff.
Document, share, and measure
Start locally, and scale globally.
Build.