Building Skills, Strengthening Communities: The Impact of Learning Festivals
What can students learn outside of the classroom that they would not necessarily access in formal education systems? In a world facing challenges such as poverty, conflict, inequality, unemployment, and environmental sustainability, education holds a pivotal role in addressing these issues. However, traditional education often struggles to meet the evolving needs of future generations. As […]
Collaborative Leadership for Transforming Education in Learning Ecosystems
Developed through an 18-month collaborative effort with education practitioners worldwide, this report explores collaborative leadership for transforming education in learning ecosystems. Building on the previous two reports, “Education Reimagined: Leadership for a New Era” and “Education Reimagined: Leadership for Transformation” by the WISE Agile Leaders of Learning Innovation Network (ALL-IN), this report presents and analyzes a […]
Education Reimagined: Leadership for Transformation
Numerous crises are going on in our world today: health, climate change, and access to quality education, and this was already true before COVID-19. These crises affect how we teach, what we teach, and the skills we’ll need now and in the future. As a result, there is a growing global movement for educational transformation […]
Education Reimagined: Leadership for a New Era
The WISE Agile Leaders of Learning Innovation Network (ALL-IN) was established in 2017, as an action-oriented global community of practice of educational leadership experts – including academics, program providers, practitioners and policy makers – who research, design and advocate for high-quality school leadership policies that prepare and support school systems in educating the learners of today and […]
Using Project-Based Learning in Low Resource Contexts Globally: Understanding the Choices and Challenges
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has seen innumerable alternative approaches to learning evolve in response to colossal global education disruption. The flourish of new and progressive pedagogies during this unprecedented time emphasizes the ever-evolving need for teaching and learning that encompasses all needs, all learners, and all communities. But how can we ensure that […]
Developing Local Learning Ecosystems in Qatar to Advance Equity, Inclusion and Social Cohesion
Two years ago, when WISE launched the research project “Local Learning Ecosystems: Emerging Models”, in partnership with the Innovation Unit, we asked ourselves how the models of learning ecosystems featured in the report could evolve as a significant new driver in education on a large scale. Since then, WISE has observed enormous growth in appetite for […]
Teacher Wellbeing: Findings from a Scoping Literature Review and Case Studies in Cambodia, Kenya, and Qatar
The future of every society in the world depends on teachers. Teachers impact children in a myriad of ways, from teaching the lifelong skill of how to learn, to the practical skills to navigate daily life and to modeling healthy, respectful interactions. To optimally teach children, we need teachers with strong wellbeing. Wellbeing is associated […]
Learning Ecosystems: A Powerful Means to Supporting Learners in Underserved Communities
As we dive deeper into the question of Learning Ecosystems – what they are, what are their strengths, their weaknesses, the key concepts and how they can be adapted – at the WISE Learning Ecosystems Living Lab, through our discussions and workshops with our community, we’ve started to notice similar remarks crop up about the […]
Exploring Educational Ecosystems through the Lens of Intermediary Organizations: Insights for Policy and Practice
As the research and work on educational ecosystems has grown, we now recognize a growing global trend that has positioned “intermediary organizations” in an oversized ecosystem role. Through their direct work with schools, especially the most vulnerable schools, these organizations – which include NGOs, philanthropies, and for-profit agencies – straddle the larger ecosystem and the […]
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 […]