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 […]
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 […]
Managing Innovation Environments and Ecosystems Capacity-Building Initiatives in Latin America
In 2016, the International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation (IASP) adopted the concept of “Areas of Innovation” as places that bring together infrastructural, technological, institutional and cultural facilities that attract entrepreneurially-minded people who have new ideas and capital and are focused on innovation and enhancing the development of the knowledge society. This […]
The Future of Learning is in Your Community
We tend to believe that teachers are responsible for children’s learning with strong support from parents. Teachers and parents are essential, but since Bronfenbrenner introduced the Ecological Systems Theory to explain how the inherent qualities of children and their environments interact to influence how they grow and develop, we have known that children’s development and learning is […]
Learning Ecosystems – Designing Vibrant and Purposeful Learning Communities
In the past months, the notion of “learning anytime, anywhere” turned into an everyday reality for millions of learners who found themselves locked out of schools and universities due to the coronavirus pandemic. This global crisis also made the world realize that effective learning doesn’t only happen in schools. In fact, it relies on an […]
Everyone a Changemaker Ecosystems: a new framework for the growing up years
Over 300 years, human society has been moving toward a new reality: where everything is changing with greater speed and is becoming more deeply interconnected. With this, comes a risk of a new divide between those who cannot adapt to change and those who do have this ability. This evolution poses the question: how can […]