Who Are We?
Kinetic Seeds is a design consultancy tackling complex educational challenges.
Woven into our DNA is the belief that students’ voices can be instruments of meaningful, lasting change. Our approach constructs new spaces within which we (students, learners, educators, advocates, leaders, policymakers and others) can make meaning together.
We purposefully seek out and work with partners who believe diversity is part of our unique social fabric and key to human flourishing and who are committed to rolling up their sleeves to consciously “design out” the inequities baked into our systems and structures. People work with us because we listen first, co-create second. They say we are “do-ers who forklift their thinking.” And we are exceptional facilitators known for finding common ground while delivering emerging next practices that can be used for immediate effect. In the process, we help our clients leverage critical design skills and embrace new ways of working together to create an educational ecosystem where all students can thrive.
Our Services at a Glance
Elevate and Amplify Student Voice
Elevate Student Voice
We champion and design opportunities for students to be heard by learning and sharing their lived experiences, offering and debating the challenges with key stakeholders, and co-creating solutions that will work for all.
Tell Powerful Stories
Tell Powerful Stories
Not the ‘sit around the campfire’ type stories, but the kind that pulls massive amounts of meaningful data and information together in a narrative and visualization that incites action, changes mindsets, and moves us forward.
Design Innovative Solutions
Design Innovative Solutions
Whether you are in need of a new program, practice, or strategic plan, we take the burden of aligning stakeholders, organizing sessions, synthesizing inputs and packaging results off your shoulders so you can focus on your day job.
Evaluate System-Level Structures
Evaluate System-Level Structures
We love digging deeper, because we believe no matter how good ideas are, if you don’t address the foundational issues that have built up over time, you cannot create meaningful, sustainable change.
Facilitate Hard Conversations
Facilitate Hard Conversations
We are not afraid of diving into the uncomfortable and thoughtfully create ‘brave spaces’ for dialogue so that all who come to the table in search of truth and progress will be empowered to create change.
Education Expertise in a Nutshell
Latest From Our Seedlings Blog
Student Mental Health
- Posted by Chris Flanagan
- On June 26, 2023
A Complex Journey of Struggle and Finding Support In the winter of 2023, 31 college students from across the...
Infographic: Top 10 Questions to Explore with Students in 2023
- Posted by Chris Flanagan
- On December 1, 2022
Who has better insight into what new majority learners need and seek from higher education institutions to thrive than students themselves?
- Posted by Chris Flanagan
- On October 6, 2022
Today’s majority learners bring a diverse and different array of experiences, needs, and ambitions. However, in many regards, the...
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