Designing for hope, wonder + joy.
Hello!
Blue Dot Education (BDE) is a San Diego based non-profit that aims to uplift communities and steward the earth’s ecosystems sustainably for future generations. BDE uses education as its primary mechanism for achieving these twin goals.
Our human-centered work focuses on designing and providing experiences and projects in the vision of creating a better and more equitable space for all learners.
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We partner with schools, districts, and edu organizations to design, implement, and coach for Deeper Learning (DL) in their learning communities. Workshops and professional learning plans are aligned to the cognitive, interpersonal, and intra-personal domains of DL.
School Retool is a professional development fellowship that helps educational leaders like you redesign school culture using small, scrappy experiments built on research-based practices that lead to Deeper Learning.
Consulting + Design
Drawing on our network of educators and professionals, we aim to create greater impact through collaborations with schools and businesses, including services such as professional learning, student-facing programming, or team building activities.
THE
BLUE DOT TEAM
Our co-founders worked as educators at High Tech High School in San Diego, CA for nearly two decades, pioneering project-based learning practices and developing educational experiences to engage youth in real world work.
Blue Dot has grown into a network of educators and professionals who are committed to supporting people, communities and the outdoors through social and environmental projects.
"The classroom Blue Dot Educators teach in is not one of textbooks or rows of desks or grades. It is far beyond that. Its classroom is the world and the learning comes from experiencing that world and becoming comfortable in that world. What results is a student who begins to think for themselves and sees life in a broader perspective, more than any classroom can provide."
Mark Aguirre
High Tech High Educator (retired)
San Diego, CA
"The Blue Dot team is full of the most insightful and learner-centered individuals I've ever met. The projects they have co-created with students and other educators stand out among the hundreds I have seen to date as ones that meet young people where they are, and take them far beyond where any one learner could go on their own. They are willing to push the boundaries when needed and can design the hell out of a grounded and rich learning experience or environment."
Elyse Burden
Executive Director and Co-Founder,
Real World Scholars
San Diego, CA
"Blue Dot has truly been a game-changer for our educational endeavors. Their ground-breaking project-based learning training has revolutionized our teaching methods. Moreover, they've not only provided incredible and distinctive authentic experiences to our educators and students through community grants, but have also fostered a deep personal relationship with our institution. We are profoundly thankful for their unwavering commitment to education."