Daphne Chase has been teaching for over 15 years and is currently a second grade teacher in the San Gabriel Unified School District.

Daphne began her Design-Based Learning (DBL) journey in the summer of 2015 at the Summer Instittue for Teachers (SIFT) at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California. She then completed her Master of Arts in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Design-Based Learning offered at Caifornia State Polytechnic University, Pomona in 2017.

In addition to being a classroom DBL teacher, Daphne is a DBL coach at the SIFT and for a cohort of teachers in her district. She has taught a Design-Based Learning Introduction class as a guest lecturer a at Cal Poly Pomona, for an Induction Consortium, and on her district’s ‘Voice and Choice’ professional development days. She is proud to have introduced Doreen’s innovative DBL methodology to her district and is amazed and inspired by the San Gabriel teachers who have taken DBL to new heights in their classrooms.