WEEKLY WEDNESDAY OPEN WORKSHOPS (WOWS) ON ZOOM (FREE)

1st + 3rd Wednesday @ 11am US ET
2nd + 4th Wednesday @ 8pm US ET

Compass any challenges, coached by me and each other!

No experience needed. We’ll end with open Q&A. Come as often as you like. Bring friends! Reach out for the link to join.

MINDFUL MINUTE MONTH (MMM) (FREE)

Daily at a Compass-o-Clock you choose

I’ll send a daily reminder (and fun stickers!) to Compass your day or part of it for 3 minutes.

Use this Month of Mindful Minutes Mini-Journal or just a sticky note, and improve your work/school/life.

Further Compass Coaching or Workshops

By request

I offer accessible coaching and workshops around using these questions in contexts such as:

• Teaching and leading in schools

• Organizational teamwork, innovation, and strategy

• Life, career, and home

Stanford d.School “d.life” Life Design Retreat: Keynote Workshop

May 9-10, 2024

Stanford has shared Innovators’ Compass as a companion tool to their Life Design curriculum and invited me to lead a keynote workshop for their 2024 Life Design Retreat with some of their 400+ collegiate members at the Career and Life Design Center at Trinity College (which was also designed via Innovators’ Compass!).

FutureFocused: Workshop

March 25, 2024

I'm thrilled to copresent a "Getting Unstuck" workshop with Morgan Muschamp, who teaches a version of my Olin design for aging course at innovative Beaver Country Day School, and to check out the other fantastic speakers and sessions at their conference.

SXSWEDU: Panel

March 24, 2024 - Austin, TX

I'm honored that Innovators' Compass is part of these people's work with incarcerated youth to first-generation college-goers, and to present the panel “Own Your Narrative: Transformative Self-Designed Stories” at SXSW EDU '24.

Audio available here.

MassCUE: Workshop

October 18, 2024 - Foxborough, MA

Speech pathologist Kim Zajac and I are teaming up for the workshop Unstick! 5 Questions to Unleash Everyday Design Thinking From STEM to SEL to Staff Meetings at MassCUE, New England's largest education technology conference with lots of great sessions. Join us!

New England Independent Booksellers Association: Workshop

October 3, 2023 - Providence, RI

I’m honored to offer the workshop “Getting Unstuck” for independent booksellers, who are the heart of our communities! Please share this with New England booksellers you know and love! Here’s their description:

We all want to innovate. We all want to do the kind of Blue Sky thinking that will move our businesses forward, enrich our staff, and increase personal happiness. But, honestly, who has the time? Join innovation coach and educator Ela Ben-Ur for a session on how apply her easy-to-follow “Innovator’s Compass” technique to make things better across your work, community, and life.

ISTE: Playground Stations

June 26-27, 2023 - Philadelphia, PA

I was thrilled to also finally make it to ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) as a part of two great “Playground” sessions to let attendees get hands-on with Innovators’ Compass!

Elon Design Forge Conference: Keynote Workshop

Mar 31, 2023 - Elon, NC

I was thrilled to finally make it to Elon Univerity’s Design Forge—and to hold a keynote workshop to launch the conference’s exploration of participatory intergenerational design. Video here.

Harvard Graduate School of Education's Everyday Innovation for Early Learning Leadership and Practice: Keynote Workshop

April 27-28, Cambridge, MA

It was wonderful to give a Design Thinking workshop for early educators—wonderfully close to home!

Designing for Equity, Justice, and Innovation in Education - Online Teacher Prep Pilot Program

Saturdays, 2/25-6/3 2023, 11am-2pm CST Online

The Center for Certification and Competency-Based Education (C3Be) at the University of Kansas will offered a 14-week virtual professional development opportunity in Designing for Equity, Justice, and Innovation in Education, for educators serving middle and high school students. During the program, participants used a version of Innovators’ Compass to explore and improve their practice through the lens of three core competencies – Teaching for Justice, Grounding in the Science of Learning and Development, and Thinking Like a Designer.

LINKEDIN LEARNING OFFICE HOURS SEP 2022: ENABLING INNOVATION FOR EVERYONE IN YOUR ORGANIZATION

I joined LinkedIn Learning author Keith Hopper for a hands-on 45 minutes exploring observations, principles, ideas and experiments in making everyday innovation possible.

CoSN 2022: THE POWER OF ONE WORKSHOP

In this video, Ela introduces Innovators’ Compass—and the power of one observation or idea to unleash the power in one student, teacher, parent, team, leader, community, district, and beyond. After showing it, Holly Doe facilitated an in-person workshop at the CoSN National Conference for Edtech Leaders in Nashville.

TEACHER SUCCESS SUMMIT 2021: 5 QUESTIONS UNSTICK GROUPS

This session is the culmination of work around how to beat barriers to collaboration using Innovators’ Compass and powerful facilitation approaches.

MASSCUE EDTECH CONFERENCE 2021: INNOVATORS’ COMPASS & ICOMPASS.ME FOR EQUITABLE EDU

Manjula Karamcheti and Ela Ben-Ur share case studies of Innovators’ Compass in classroom, counseling, staffroom, and community settings. After this video, participants used icompass.me together on advancing equitable education using technology (and otherwise).

Big Questions Institute: Navigating a Mess of Unending Challenges

A webinar focused on COVID stories and a short Compass experience.

Teacher success summit 2020: 5 Questions unstick students (and their grownups)

See and practice using Innovators’ Compass with students for their personal, interpersonal challenges—and with grownups too.

SXSWEDU 2020: Together! A Tool To Design With and For all Voices.

Is there a voice you struggle to include in the design and decisions of your school or organization? Tackle that tension with Innovators’ Compass. This self-guided workshop takes 90 minutes with all activities.

National Science Teachers’ Association (NSTA) STEM Forum 2020: Share Observations and Ideas About Teaching STEM in COVID Times Using Innovators’ Compass Online.

A short intro with Valeria Rodriguez's stories using the Compass from STEM to SEL to staff meetings. Then participants around the world created a shared icompass.me about teaching STEM in COVID times.

MASSACHUSETTS COMPUTER-USING EDUCATORS (MASSCUE) Get a CUE PODCAST: Ela Ben-Ur and Innovators’ Compass

Brandon Hall is an engaging interviewer—and a great sport, as he jumps into a compass about a challenge the golf team he coaches was experiencing!

Deeper Learning Boston 2022: 4-hour Deep Dive

It was a pleasure teaming up with Kim Zajac for a four-hour deep-woods deep-dive: Stuck happens! 5 Questions to Design Your Way Forward—From STEM to SEL to Staff Meetings.

AAUW National CONFERENCE FOR COLLEGE WOMEN STUDENT LEADERS 2022: 1/2-day pre-workshop

I was invited to work with 300 college women student leaders for an afternoon to kick off their conference. They coached each other in individual challenges most on their minds. Then, in groups, they designed a great conference experience—down to experiments that they followed up on at the end.

the Summit for transformative learning in Atlanta (STLinATL): TWO WORKSHOPS

I offered two hands-on workshops. One focused on STEAM, Projects, and Lesson Planning; the second on Social-Emotional Learning (SEL), Student and Staff Voice, and Leadership.