Getting SparkED accelerates education ecosystems with and through pragmatic forms of imagination. We seek to cultivate a dynamic network focused on co-creating and scaling transformational approaches to learning and teaching, wherever the action is.
Laura Cechanowicz
works at the intersections of art and science with immersive media, installation, sound, animation, health, rehabilitation and more.
Ed Finn
studies imagination and our collective capacity to imagine and enact positive futures
Rebekah Jongewaard
partners with educators to create learning opportunities that nurture imagination, cultivate agency, and support meaningful contributions to communities students care about.
Michelle Jordan
examines how peers experience, express and navigate uncertainty as they engage in collaborative problem-solving, particularly in K-12 STEM learning contexts.
Annette Schmidt
builds student and teacher wellbeing in PreK-12 schools through experiential, hands-on learning in outdoor classrooms and explores how relationships among nature, students and teachers supports wellbeing for all three.
Bregje (Bree) van Geffen
designs and studies experiences on the intersection of multisensory learning, imagination, and futures thinking to create inclusive, transdisciplinary experiences that bridge art and education across age groups.
Ruth Wylie
Steve Zuiker
is a learning scientist whose research is broadly based on the notion that ideas are only as important as what we can do with them, and how imagination helps put ideas to work in new ways.