Animating Question
Life is messy by design. How do we teach innovators that being curious matters more than being perfect so they can live their biggest adventures and courageously cultivate a better world?
Cynthia Bushey
Learning Engagement Lead
Cynthia has been working as an educator for over two decades in both formal and informal learning environments. She has worked with both youth and adult learners as a public school classroom teacher, a 4-H positive youth development educator, an undergraduate and graduate college course designer and instructor, and as an academic counselor and director of academic coaching and tutoring. As a curious learner herself, Cynthia has conducted educational research and enjoys expanding her understanding of the neurology of learning and the role of executive functioning for academic and life success. She is passionate about collaborating with others on the creation of learner-friendly educational spaces that engage Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles that allow for fun, inquiry-based, self-directed learning. She believes when we meet each other as unique individuals with strengths to share that inclusive, equity-minded communities flourish.
Education
B.A. in Theatre, SUNY Plattsburgh
M.S.T. in Elementary Education: pre-K-6, SUNY Plattsburgh
M.A. in Educational Psychology: Cognition & Instruction, University of Connecticut
Foundations in Design Thinking Certificate, IDEO U
WHAT SHE’D WHISPER IN THE EAR OF HER 15-YEAR-OLD SELF
You are already enough. Isn’t this exciting? Now you can both succeed and fail knowing neither of these will break you.