Real stories
Stories of educational transformation
Real institutions. Real tensions. Real lessons.
Transforming an educational institution is rarely about introducing a single methodology, technology or initiative. These stories show what happens when purpose, culture, curriculum, experiences, assessment, organisation and people become part of the same conversation, following the logic of the Systemic Learning Architecture.
All stories have been anonymised to protect the confidentiality of the institutions and people involved.
Integrate
When experiential learning stops being peripheral
An institution with good active-learning experiences discovers the challenge is not running more projects, but bringing the experiential into the core of the educational model.
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Merge
When an educational acquisition needs to build a new "us"
The integration of institutions into an educational network is decided in the financial and legal spheres, but is played out in identity, culture and shared purpose.
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Create
Creating a school from purpose
A new school can end up being building + curriculum + staff + technology, or it can first be built as a coherent educational architecture.
Observed pattern
Create
Designing a new degree without starting from the subjects
Creating a programme from scratch allows the usual sequence to be inverted: purpose and graduate profile first; the subjects, at the end.
Observed pattern
Redesign
Transforming an existing degree to respond to a world that changed
Updating subjects can be necessary and yet insufficient: real redesign reviews the coherence between the professional we want to form and the experience we build.
Observed pattern
Redesign
Redesigning a school without losing what gives it identity
Deeply transforming the educational model of a school with history requires deciding what evolves and what is preserved because it explains who we are.
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