by Ari Yares | Feb 20, 2017 | Design Thinking, Start Here, The Innovative Dad Blog
One of the best lessons that I learned in graduate school was to ask myself the question, “Do you want to die on that hill?” My advisor would pose that question when it seemed like we were putting on our armor to tilt at a windmill just like Don Quixote. He would...
by Ari Yares | Nov 18, 2016 | Design Thinking, Menu Planning, The Innovative Dad Blog
Packing school lunch is one of my least favorite tasks as a parent. It has to happen every school day. And then happens again the following night. Then, the lunches come home, often not completely eaten, with the kids complaining about what you packed and saying that...
by Ari Yares | Sep 6, 2016 | 21st Century Learning, Design Thinking, Writings
The school year has started and many educators are already talking about failure. This isn’t the failure that many of us are familiar with from school (not from personal experience, just from being in school. It isn’t the glaringly big red F that we...
by Ari Yares | Nov 8, 2016 | Design Thinking, The Innovative Dad Blog
No, that’s not a typo. My kids are not Vulcans. They are, however, volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. Hence, VUCA. The Harvard Business Review defines VUCA as one of those trendy management catch phrases which is short for “Hey, it’s crazy...
by Ari Yares | Jun 20, 2016 | Design Thinking, Writings
I have been wondering for a while why I am fascinated with design. Some of it, I’m sure, I picked up while my wife was earning two degrees in communication design, but the fascination didn’t really hit full steam until well after she had finished. What was...
by Ari Yares | Apr 12, 2013 | Design Thinking, Jewish Day School, Schechter School of Long Island
A colleague of mine once referred to tefillah as the third rail of Jewish education. As irreverent as this may sound, it stemmed from a deep-seated concern that as Jewish educators we struggle with this area of the day school experience, not because it is not...
