Let's Build New Pathways

We all know things have to change in education. It feels like the same problems have been around for generations, and that progress isn't coming quick enough. Another generation can not go by with the same outcomes that leave so many behind.

"It's time for a new way. It's been long enough.
Educators and their learners deserve better."

- CK, Onyx's Originator

The digital world offers opportunities to do things differently. But the reality is, true innovation happens within the classroom. We believe it's time for a sea change in the educational world overall.

3 Elements of the Academic Engineering℠ Changemaker Approach

Many teachers are not in environments that support their success and wellbeing.

Waiting for the systems to change is an unpredictable and unreliable way to go, so it's time for educators to build our own pathways forward.

Academic Engineering embraces the cultivated abilities educators have for learning and innovation.

A Way to Navigate Outdated Systems

  • Gain skills to open doors to a bright future, both in and out of the classroom

  • Build confidence to define and express the problems you see around you

  • Make informed decisions about bringing changes to your community

  • Set goals and transform education with solutions that are built to last

  • Learning Advocates

    Increase your message's impact and keep making a difference.

  • Educational Leaders

    Bring next-generation approaches and technologies to your school.

  • Digital Integrators

    Support your teammates while embracing the future of learning.

  • Force

    Reflect on the forces in place that have influence over your actions, environment, and outcomes.

  • Leverage

    Find the points where you have a voice, where you can make room, and where you can make moves.

  • Unite

    Acknowledge common ground with your peers, superiors, dependents, and all stakeholders who are open to coming together.

  • Individualize

    Identify opportunities that are specifically useful to you, your classes, your context, and your community.

  • Distribute

    Set the stage for extracting knowledge gained that can be shared publicly, applied at other times and places, or passed on through your network.

  • Force

    Research the forces in place that influence the areas you want to operate within and the domains you want to enter.

  • Leverage

    Find tools you can leverage to increase your impact, reduce friction, and expand your potential outcomes.

  • Activate

    Take steps to try new things, build new relationships, shines new lights, and catalyze new initiatives.

  • Monitor

    Observe and record the results of what you do, insights from what you perceive, and feelings of what you experience.

  • Encourage

    Embrace the journey, understand that change takes time, and care for yourself and others along the way.

  • Formulate

    Identify the problem you want to solve, its existence, your assumptions, and abilities to solve it.

  • Ideate

    Brainstorm potential solutions, narrow down based on reality, what excites you, what's actionable, and what you want to do.

  • Elaborate

    Outline your solution, fill in specific approaches, buttress with research, refine based on your learnings, and reflect on your research and solution context.

  • Luminate

    Gather feedback and input from stakeholders and peers, refine based on the feedback, and reflect on those refinements from your perspective.

  • Deliver

    Select delivery channels and contexts, create supporting content, add supplemental content, get the word out, measure and maintain.

Meet CK

After decades of decoding a systematic method of self-determined learning, I transitioned to learning design so I could share my findings with others.

My journey took me to learning, teaching, and exploring in countries around the world while expanding my knowledge.

Along the way, my increased awareness showed me that education around the globe needs a renaissance, and that educators around the world need help bringing it to life.

Academic Engineering℠ combines the best of what I've learned, done, researched, experienced, and designed into a new approach to make it happen.

Join me in the movement to build a better, brighter, and abundant future for all through Education 3.0.

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