Biomimicry
Biomimicry is an approach that adapts strategies or ideas from the natural world to solve human challenges, often providing a framework for creating resilient educational systems and organizations. Just as ecosystems thrive through interconnection and adaptation, learning platforms and institutional structures can evolve to better serve their communities by following nature’s blueprints.
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Outdoor PD for Educator Wellness and Innovation
Working with educational systems across the Great Plains, I keep running into the same pattern: the way we usually do professional development doesn’t touch the problems educators are actually carrying. Here in…
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Biomimicry in Learning: Coyotes & Adaptive Funding Strategies
This piece has been folded into Biomimicry as a Lens: Coyotes, Pine Cones, and Prairie Grass, which consolidates the four-part series into one essay. The coyote section is there.
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“Flow” in Course Design: Organic, Alternative Approaches
For most of my career I have designed courses the way I build Canvas templates, which is out of parts. My atomic design system breaks a course into atoms (colors, fonts, buttons),…
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Homegrown Learning Book (Preview)
Working as a learning designer across the Great Plains, I’ve found that conventional instructional design approaches often wither when they’re transplanted into rural and otherwise unusual contexts. That’s what started Homegrown Learning:…
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Biomimicry in Learning: Prairie Grasses & Hidden Infrastructure
This piece has been folded into Biomimicry as a Lens: Coyotes, Pine Cones, and Prairie Grass, which consolidates the four-part series into one essay. The prairie section is there.
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Biomimicry in Learning: Pine Cones & Released Content
This piece has been folded into Biomimicry as a Lens: Coyotes, Pine Cones, and Prairie Grass, which consolidates the four-part series into one essay. The pine cone section is there.
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Biomimicry as a Lens: Coyotes, Pine Cones, and Prairie Grass
This series began as four separate posts and was adapted into a presentation at ISTELive25, embedded below. In September 2026 I consolidated the four pieces into this one essay, keeping what held…
