posted 19 August 2011 by shaun
The pitch was simple: Tread wanted to create an engaging curriculum that would channel these urban students’ passion for (and sometimes obsession with) footwear into their high school education. The result was a program aimed at giving these kids an intro to design thinking, creative problem solving, and the footwear-design process in seven weeks. Along the way, we discovered a few things that could help other grassroots projects get off the ground.
We can’t wait for the education industry to completely reform itself. What it needs is a spark, an influx of passionate individuals with meaningful ideas bent on challenging the status quo. We need a diversity of opinion, not just another standardized test.
