Creatively Imagining Education
Educational Consultant
Instructional Systems Designer
Divergent Thinker
Services
Steve offers exceptional value for consulting on educational innovations and topics about justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. Passionate for uncovering clients' creative confidence, Steve empowers and encourages educators and leaders to think outside the box of possibilities by transforming ideas from the inside.
Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Facilitates conversations and develops educational programs on JEDI topics for education
Instructional Design
Analyzes, designs, develops, delivers and evaluates instructional programs and outcomes
Professional Learning
Develops professional learning for educators focused on student-centered outcomes
Teaching & Training
Leads and facilitates engaging and relevant learning experiences for education and business
Visual Literacy
Creates strategies for making and organizing message design
Creative Confidence
Ignites and inspires the creative potential inherent in every person
Motivation
Improves curriculum design with motivation strategies
About me
Steve is the founder of DivergentED Consultants, offering custom solutions for the challenges within instructional technology, curriculum design, and instructional systems design. His goal is to help educational leaders be more effective in creating faculty-responsive and student-centered learning for online and in real-space.
He is passionate about inspiring and engaging teachers in their profession, as well as providing the support teachers need in their pursuit of innovative and divergent thinking for teaching. Steve's expertise includes facilitating, coaching, and training higher education faculty who are transitioning to online teaching methodologies. He provides webinars on the integration of instructional resources into learning management systems like Canvas and developing student-centered, interactive online resources.
"Technologies are powerful tools for teaching. In the hands and mind of a confident educator, edtech can inspire students to experience deeper learning beyond the classroom and to imagine solutions for undiscovered challenges"
Resources
A Doctorate Degree Cannot Open All Doors
A routine faculty consultation on lecture slide design changed my dream job as Academic Technology Lab Manager into a stepping stone for my career. After a productive work…
Creativity-Powered Learning
Many teachers hear “I’m not creative” echoing from their students when starting a project that requires them to make something. In many students’ minds, the thought of doing…
Chase the Lion!
It’s a crazy idea to chase a lion. Your brain signals you the strong impulse to run the other way, fast! I decided to live divergently, that is…
I’m not creative!
Uncovering the lie to reveal creative confidence in ourselves “I’m not creative!” is a typical statement. It is also a lie that’s often repeated in our minds, typically…
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Contact
Send your questions, comments, ideas, recipes, inspirations and requests for speaking or consulting.
Contact me for a one-on-one consultation about your professional growth or for your school, district, or business needs. I can offer you an inspirational, creative confidence-building session, or keynote presentation.
Need a longer-term commitment? Ask me about group facilitation and transformational change strategies for building student-centered learning environments, developing cultural competency leadership, and integrating design thinking for problem-solving.