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I have watched in wonderment as my kid sister, Doreen Gehry Nelson, has explored the world of K–12 education.

She has worked in the California school system and beyond for years and, along the way, she discovered that opening the floodgates of curiosity leads to all sorts of educational benefits. She experimented over the years with various teaching models that she developed and became quite practiced in the search for a better way.

Doreen has always understood that sparking people's curiosity opens doors to beneficial thinking. Over the years, based on this guiding principle, she has developed her Design-Based Learning methodology, which has proven its value time and time again. It engages individuals with their own feelings and their own ideas as they pursue the inventive experiences that unfold in the classroom under Doreen's methodology.

She has guided teachers to ignite their own imagination, develop their own intuition, and harness their own humanity in order that they can cultivate the same in their students. The power to imagine is the path to a better and richer and more equitable society for all. This is the power of the Doreen Nelson Method of Design-Based Learning.

I have participated in some of those events and have been personally inspired by Doreen's vision and her work. She is building a network of hope for kids, helping teachers light the fire of curiosity and possibility in their students. She is providing light at the end of the tunnel. I'm very proud to endorse her work.

—FRANK GEHRY, ARCHITECT