ReImagine Science works through networks of mutual support and opportunities for collaboration. We are proud of the initiatives we are connected to that focus on youth. One of these is Pseads, an inspirational and impactful shift in how science and literacy are taught and integrated from 2nd grade through graduate school. Another is the Global Co Lab Network, and its Teens Dream initiatives. Pseads was a key participant in our 2020 TEDCountdown event. We are astonished and empowered by the depth of insight in poetry produced through this program. Teens Dream, with its global focus through the work of Linda Staheli, its founder, brings forward the initiative and work-for-impact from teens the world over.
Pseads
Dr. Matthew Davis and Dr. Elizabeth Miller grew Pseads (“seeds”) to create the conditions that cultivate and enable an inextinguishable spirit for exploration, innovation, and collaboration.
Pseads was born out of work with students of all ages, in locations all over the world; Elizabeth and Matt witnessed learners’ struggles. Struggles to see value and personal meaning in learning, to discover the confidence for learning across any subjects, and to find the freedom to dream and design.
The Pseads team produces programs and projects that use science, cosmology, story, media, and poetry to create journeys for learning that reveal new ways of perceiving and relating to the world. Rather than single interactions, Pseads programs work with students (2nd grade to graduate school) in diverse environments over multiple months or years, creating a long-term foundation of relationship and experiential learning.
ReImagine Science has seen this first-hand, with young students who shared their personal creations during our TEDCountdown event in 2020 (see link below) – some of whom were at Psead’s recent Harvest of the Heart, and continuing to produce marvelous works of impact and meaning.
Teens Dream
ReImagine Science has partnered with Global CoLab Network to host various salons, both in the Washington DC area and in California. Global CoLab Network founder Linda Staheli was already well on her way to creating her youth-focused global initiative, the Teens Dream project, when she spoke at the 2015 Franchise 4 Humanity event we helped produce. In Oct 2023 Global CoLab Network celebrated it’s 10th annual Teens Dream SDG Hubs. These hubs are unique, weekly virtual meetings that support teens in collaborative initiatives to address today’s big challenges through projects in their own communities. The teens, aged 13 to 19 years old, are part of the growing movement to address the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals – SDGs – through local action.
We champion their work and hope you will consider signing up as a mentor, a hub participant (if you’re 13-19 years old) or a supporter of this good work. You can do any of those three by contacting them on the Global CoLab website.
TEDx
Beginning in 2011, our Executive Director Kennan Salinero became involved with the California Bay area’s Innovation Tri-Valley Leadership Group. ITV’s founder, Dale Kaye, and the head of school for Valley Montessori, Rosalind Hamar, had initiated a project to host a TEDx event in the Livermore California region. Following Dale and Roz’s lead and joining the project as speaker curator, Kennan found TEDx to be a strong platform for sharing ideas and leading change.
Since then, we have collaborated on a number of TEDx events, and in 2020 began leading TEDx events of our own.
TEDx productions are independently organized by volunteers who step up to the challenge, apply for a license, and follow the detailed rules and regulations set by TED, a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading.