EduCon 2025

Garreth Heidt taught middle and high school students via a concept-based, project-oriented approach for more than 30 years.

His curricula seek to develop skills in critical viewing, question formation, civil discussion, problem finding, and problem solving. The learning process is driven by design-minded means to a unique educational end for his students, and is focused around two simple questions: “Why are things the way they are? How can we make them better?”

He spent the last 7 years of his career co-creating a social entrepreneurship class called inNOVAtion Lab—a space for students to explore design-thinking and purposed-based, self-determined learning projects. A space for inspiration, aspiration, respiration, and creation where teachers and learners can break the script of schooling to develop peak experiences and defining moments for all learners.