Embedding Innovation Labs in Schools as a Vehicle for Transformation in Education
Education has been in the midst of a global transformation effort for quite some time. While education reform has been a central focus for decades, in the last five years especially the conversation has shifted from reform to redesign—to transforming our fundamental model of teaching and learning from the “sage on the stage” model that […]
Edtech Market Entry Strategies: India
At the beginning of 2020, the edtech market found itself at a turning point. There had already been huge leaps forward in education technology, and investment-led interest had naturally followed, with $1.7 billion raised in 2019 alone. There was no going back now; edtech had made an indelible mark on classrooms around the world and […]
Bridging the Evidence to Policy Gap: A Learning Partnership Approach to Research
WISE, the Education Commission, and Education Development Trust came together with the Rwanda Basic Education Board (REB) to generate new evidence on school and system leadership during COVID-19. School leadership has never been more complex or critical than it is today. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic struck and left over 1.5 billion children out of […]
The future of educational leadership: Five signposts
Published by the Centre on Strategic Education in Australia, The future of educational leadership: Five signposts is a study that explores and reflects on the nature of the leadership required at this pivotal time in human history. The paper argues that a new form of leadership is urgently needed to reshape our educational systems in a post-Covid […]
COVID-19: Bringing Girls Back to School
This joint blog post has been produced by speakers following a conversation organized by WISE on the occasion of International Women’s Day (March 8th), on the consequences of the pandemic on girls’ and women’s education. The following summarizes their contributions and highlights recommendations on potential solutions to remedy to this issue: The returns to schooling […]
Trust and Thriving Learning Ecosystems
The importance of trust in learning ecosystems is often emphasized but rarely interrogated. The aim of this piece is to guide deeper dialogue and reflection about the practice of weaving trustful relationships as a foundation of thriving learning ecosystems. It is in no way intended to be definitive or comprehensive. What is trust? There is […]
Conveying Big Ideas with Small Budgets
In 2015, 40 percent of Africa’s population lived in cities. By the late 2030s, more than half of Africa’s population will call urban areas home. With over 60% of its population under the age of 25, the ability of West African cities to nurture learning and wellbeing for all its citizens has immediate consequences for […]
Stewarding Learning Ecosystems: The CommunityShare Story
In conversation with Josh Schachter, founder and director of CommunityShare (www.communityshare.us), on stewarding learning ecosystems, interviewed by the WISE team. What sparked your interest in learning ecosystems? Though it may sound strange, I often joke with my students that lemurs were some of my best mentors in making sense of the world. My formal training […]
Learning Ecosystems: Knowing When You Are Ready for Change
Sustaining continued learning has become one of the main/urgent developments in education as the global pandemic continues to unfold. We as resilient human beings must seek ecosystem-based approaches to change adaptation. To start, we must ask ourselves “are we ready for such change?” Being ready to adapt ecosystem-based changes for sustained learning requires us to […]
Highlighting the Ta’theer Leadership Development Program in Lebanon
Qatar Foundation’s WISE ALL-IN Case Studies Given that school leadership is one of the most important influences on student learning, WISE/ALL-IN’s 2025 strategy, is to focus its research, program support, and advocacy toward supporting school leader development in under-served global contexts. As part of this work, in 2019 WISE ALL-IN supported field-based case studies of school […]