📝 Episodic Synopsis

What happens when learning stops being about information—and starts becoming about invention?

In this episode of Classroom Narratives: Healing in Education, Dr. Joey Weisler sits down with educator, author, and innovation specialist Dr. Fred Estes to explore how design thinking can transform the classroom into a space of agency, creativity, and real-world impact.

Drawing from decades of experience across K–12 and higher education, Dr. Estes introduces the “ABCs of learning”—Agency, Belonging, and Competence—and challenges educators to move beyond traditional models of instruction that prioritize memorization over meaning.

Together, Joey and Fred examine what it means to create classrooms rooted in invitation rather than force, where students are empowered to solve real probl ...