What does the future hold for education, technology and sustainable system design?
How are human systems designed to coordinate progress and celebrate success within and across industries, sectors and disciplines?
John Janezic is a two-time Sun Devil and completed his B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies: Sustainability and Applied Biology, with a Minor in Spanish and a certificate in Cross-Sector Leadership in 2021. In 2022, he completed his 4+1 Master’s in Global Management: Sustainability Solutions, at the Thunderbird School of Global Management. In his studies he consulted with public sector partners on their sustainable development plans for water, energy and the economy, including the City of Tucson, AZ and Rotterdam, Netherlands. His perspective focuses on connecting assets across industries and sectors to promote community-wide engagement within education, sustainablity and technology use.
With the Decision Center for Educational Excellence, he leveraged a portfolio of high-fidelity education data visualizations to identify communities across Arizona that were seeing outstanding student success across their STEM Programs. Using insights from the data reports to codesign and launch the ASU Impact Corps, a professional network of educators making marked impacts on their school's community and student success, the data-driven decision making model of the Center continues to support educational attainment and economic mobility across Arizona.
In 2023 he worked across the university landscape to codesign and implement two event-based endeavors: the ASU K12 Education Ecosystem - Sparking Synergy and the 100 Year EdTech Project. Each of these events continue to evaluate the current contexts of our educational systems: how does the University play a role in supporting the programmatic and professional goals of our incumbent educational systems, and how does our ongoing innovation and use of technology intertwine with how we live, learn and thrive, both now and into the future?
Currently John works as a Project Manager for the Youth Entrepreneurship team at the J. Orin Edson Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute, where he supports the Verizon Innovative Learning program to facilitate 1:1 technology support, STEM curriculum implementation, and cooridnating programmatic elements for more than 100 VIL Labs across the US.