We are Nature: Deepening Our Roots as Community Leaders
Since time immemorial, nature has been our greatest teacher. The patterns existing within and between complex and distinct systems speak volumes about how to create thriving teams. Indeed when we look to nature for inspiration on how to lead, we see the very foundation of any ecosystem is reciprocity, a willingness to share, to give […]
What World Do We Want to Shape?
This is a reflective essay written as part of the WISE Emerging Leaders program. My fingers slowly press on the warming keyboard. It is now 40 degrees celcius in my North of France hometown. It is the first time in my life that this region, known as one the coldest in the country, has reached such […]
A Call to Nominate the 2021 Education Hero!
Ask anyone, anywhere and they will probably tell you how important education is. From the world’s most under-resourced communities to the offices of Prime Ministers, education is the rare issue on which there’s nearly universal agreement – that investments from early childhood learning to aerospace engineering can lift millions out of poverty, advance science, save […]
Evaluating the Impact of Global Citizenship Education on Young People’s Attitudes Towards Equality, Diversity and Tolerance
This research aims to address questions around the implementation, measurement, and success of Global Citizenship Education (GCE) as a response to the global challenges of the twenty-first century. GCE aims to foster peaceful, inclusive, tolerant, sustainable, and socially just societies; yet despite its centrality in international policy discourse and academic research, the impact of GCE […]
Thinking & Acting like a Designer: How design thinking supports innovation in K-12 education
The needs of the twenty-first century demand new approaches to learning. Today, student success requires skills for collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, and problem solving, and these skills are increasingly becoming a focus in both K-12 and higher education settings. But twenty-first century learning needs to be much more if we are to expect young people […]
Learning and Well-being: An Agenda for Change
The understanding of well-being as an important goal for individuals and for communities has gained real traction in recent years. Yet the idea of “learning for well-being” is still only at the margins in schools the world over. Curricula for twenty-first century skills continues to focus primarily on the academic subjects and on transversal skills […]
Explorations of Creativity: a Review for Educators and Policy Making
Creativity is the driving force of human evolution. In our early 21st century the demand for creative thinkers is particularly high. Interest in creativity has generated countless studies, books, and articles. Which popular beliefs about creativity are valid? In this comprehensive and accessible review, multiple strands of research are woven together revealing intriguing mechanisms and […]
Learning to Make a Difference: School as a Creative Community
Education systems are failing to meet the needs of too many learners today because it ill equips them for the challenges of an uncertain, turbulent world in which they will have to find solutions to challenges with other people. Drawing on some of the most innovative organizations in the world, including Pixar and Barcelona FC, […]