Our Approach

How can we grow all students holistically so they can shape a better future?

"We bring together people and organizations around the world to make progress towards a shared learning agenda guided by these questions and its implications in classrooms, schools, and systems globally."

UNDERSTANDING THE CHALLENGE

Our Theory of Change

The Global Institute is addressing the fact that while there are exemplary classrooms, schools, and systems around the world, the global ecosystem lacks effective global learning systems to surface and spread their insights.

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Learning Across Borders

The Global Institute engages practitioners in learning together across borders about how to advance students' holistic development

Generating New Evidence

And the shared inquiry also generates new evidence about how to shift classrooms, schools, and systems, to enable these insights to spread widely

Multiplier Effect

This contributes to the orientation, mindsets, and beliefs of practitioners, who have a multiplier effect in their communities

Anchoring our agenda on 3 learning questions

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Classrooms

What is happening in classrooms where students are developing holistically?

What distinguishes classrooms that support students' holistic development—and how do they think, act, and measure success?

Systems Change

What is happening in places where collective leadership is developing towards system change?

What defines collective leadership that drives systems change—and how can we understand and measure its impact?

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Leadership

How can we develop collective leadership to shift classrooms and systems?

What individual and collective capacities are needed? What learning conditions, experiences, and orientation shifts enable the development of people throughout the ecosystem—and how can we measure that progress?

Our Learning Experiences

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Courses & Workshops

Reaching thousands

These engagements draw learners into foundational insights, seed new ideas and activate future champions.

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Deep Learning & Leadership Development

Reaching hundreds

Some practitioners with unique insight on our learning edges participate in collaborative inquiries that deepen leadership, strengthen relationships, and generate new insights and frameworks.

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Virtual Resources & Communities

Reaching tens of thousands

A world-class hub and AI bot to share insights at scale, offering accessible, personalized tools and resources.

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Locally-led Innovation, Adaptation & Evaluation

Reaching dozens

Local communities innovate and adapt global insights and frameworks, leveraging participatory research to generate new evidence.

Our Learning Experiences

Courses & Workshops

Reaching thousands

These engagements draw learners into foundational insights, seed new ideas and activate future champions.

Deep Learning & Leadership Development

Reaching hundreds

Some practitioners with unique insight on our learning edges participate in collaborative inquiries that deepen leadership, strengthen relationships, and generate new insights and frameworks.

Virtual Resources & Communities

Reaching tens of thousands

A world-class hub powered by AI to share insights at scale, offering accessible, personalized tools and resources.

Locally-led Innovation, Adaptation & Evaluation

Reaching dozens

Local communities innovate and adapt global insights and frameworks, leveraging participatory research to generate new evidence.

What are we learning?

 

FELLOWSHIP

BOLD Fellowship

The Beacons of Learning Design (BOLD) Fellowship is a global fellowship that connects leaders from some of the world's most transformational schools and learning environments to reshape education for a better future.

REPORT

The Missing Piece

Our report, The Missing Piece: Developing Collective Leadership to Transform Education, brings together what we have learned from hundreds of leaders from across our network about what is at work in the communities and systems that are making progress towards ensuring that all children learn.

FRAMEWORK

Teaching As Collective Leadership (TACL)

An actionable and locally customizable framework for teachers, teacher coaches, and program designers to grow students as leaders of a better future for themselves, their communities, and all of us.

TOOLS

Holistic Student Outcomes

Student Leadership Measurement Library and Holistic Student Outcomes Monitoring Toolkit hosts two complementary repositories that consolidate global and local resources and guidance on how to effectively measure the holistic development of students as well as tools for measuring holistic student outcomes.