Grant Wiggins
DESIGN
Most workshops get the planning right and the session wrong. The creator names the specific participant, the specific problem, and what the participant should be able to do at the end — and then builds the session itself as a list of topics to…
April 28, 2026
PLAN
Every workshop succeeds or fails before a single slide gets chosen. Success is set up by four decisions made up front: who the workshop is for, what problem it actually solves, what the participant should be able to do by the end, and how the…
April 28, 2026
From Learner-Centered to Transformation-Centered
Transformation-centered design is a workshop design philosophy that measures success by observable behavior change, not by information delivered or satisfaction scored.
April 28, 2026
The Guiding Principles of Active Learning
A workshop can deploy every visible marker of active learning — breakouts, think-pair-share, live polls, roleplay — and still produce the passive-learning outcomes the approach is supposed to eliminate.
April 28, 2026