Our belief
Improvement shouldn't be limited to isolated pockets but rather a shared journey fuelled by collective growth. By working with others, we can learn more and improve faster.
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When people with different ideas and perspectives come together with one goal - making education better - we can achieve more than if we were working independently. That's why we built a platform where we can move beyond individual efforts and harness the collective expertise of educators from different backgrounds and locations.
Doing things differently
The challenges we face in education are too big to tackle alone. But looking outward with a more collaborative approach requires us to be more open to exposing our vulnerabilities and shortcomings.
We grow stronger when we tackle obstacles head-on, learn from our experiences, and share what we have learned. This means sharing when we have got things wrong, so that we can grow from our challenges.
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Mistakes are inevitable. We want to spotlight these moments not as failures but as valuable lessons. Each mistake is an opportunity for inquiry into the 'why' and the 'how' – understanding what led to the issue, how it impacted the students and teachers, and most critically, what can be done differently next time.
Our inspiration
We have been guided by the thinking of several sources of inspiration:
Black Box Thinking: The Surprising Truth About Success
Matthew Syed
Organizing Schools for Improvement: Lessons from Chicago
Anthony S. Bryk
et al.
The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
Julia Galef
Mindset - Changing The Way You Think To Fulfil Your Potential
Carol Dweck
Districts That Succeed: Breaking the Correlation Between Race, Poverty, and Achievement
Karin Chenoweth
Learning To Improve: How America’s Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better
Anthony S. Bryk
et al.
