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Human Centered Design
Human Centered Design is at the heart of every MESA project. This means that problems are not thought of in isolation, but rather in context with the people involved. People are involved in every step of the invention process in a human centered design.
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Liberatory Mindsets
We value creating safe spaces and opportunities to explore the vulnerability and courage needed to develop students’ and teachers self-awareness as equity centered designers. Equity-centered design embraces liberatory mindsets.
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Social Emotional Learning
We work to enhance students’ capacity to integrate skills, attitudes, and behaviors to deal effectively and ethically with daily tasks and challenges through instruction in the five core competencies of self awareness, self management, social awareness, relationship awareness, and responsible decision making.
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