(re)School Sprint
PARTICIPATE IN DESIGNING YOUR SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE
PARTICIPATE IN DESIGNING YOUR SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE
Highlights from the (re)School Sprint 2022
School innovators and education dreamers from all over the world
The voice of the Youth
As part of a joint initiative with YCM Challenge, young people from all over the world met to discuss their views on education and shared them with the (re)School Sprint teams.
What would you change if you could design a school from scratch?
Watch a short summary of what they said.
And find out more here
The voice of the Youth
As part of a joint initiative with YCM Challenge, young people from all over the world met to discuss their views on education and shared them with the (re)School Sprint teams.
What would you change if you could design a school from scratch?
Find out more here
Watch some of the Sprint teams' pitches
The Leap Year
Germany
8th graders with no grades,
no subjects, no classes,
no pre-determined timetable
Redefining school today
Colombia
Fostering a culture of trust where teacher-student relationships positively impact the learner’s academic performance and life skills
Re-Frame Wonder
Thailand & USA
How might we have wonder for the natural world flow throughout the learning ecosystem?
Inclusive schools challenge
South Africa
Co-creating solutions to
address inclusion issues
in South African schools
In a nutshell
When is it ?
This experience lasts 2 weeks, from May 2nd to May 13th , with a daily dedication of 1-2 hours per participant. Teams organize themselves as they wish.
Where is it ?
100% online, which allows participants from all over the world to come together. Our platform makes the collaboration easy.
What is it ?
A global event where school innovators from all over the world come together to imagine and prototype innovative solutions for their school of the future.
Who can participate ?
Teams of students and educators interested in accelerating innovation at their schools, school innovation coaches, school leaders and education thought leaders…
Why such an event ?
A strong desire for change...
In countless schools around the world, open-minded educators and school leaders wonder how to shape the learning experience at their schools in line with the challenges and needs of learners facing a new future.
... but a lack of means
There is little readily available experience on how to successfully conduct the innovation and change process in a school. And conversations take place almost exclusively on a national basis.
Our main goals
Exchange international best practices in managing change in schools
What makes it unique ?
GLOBAL COMMUNITY
An active network of school innovators and education experts from 5 continents
CROSS-FERTILIZATION
Think beyond single national education systems and leverage existing good practice to come up with new solutions
ACTION-ORIENTED
Systematically follow-up of presented concepts to make sure they get implemented in schools
ONLINE PLATFORM
Exclusive use of the innovationhub.school with proven tools and methods to collaborate from anywhere and form on ongoing community
Get involved
As a school team
Teams of innovative leaders, teachers and learners who are willing to transform their schools
As an innovation coach
Learning innovators who work with schools to help them innovate and transform their model
As a thought leader
Experts involved in school transformation: pedagogic experts/academics, managers, strategists, policy makers
Our collaboration platform
innovationhub.school provides the basic collaboration platform and ongoing community of school innovators
Highlights from the (Re)Learn Hackathon 2020
School innovators from over 20 countries
I loved collaborating worldwide in making my dream more specific
I learned how important different perspectives really are
Two of the winning projects
I learned about the power of working as a community
Project Faro (Colombia, Brasil, UAE, UK, US) An innovative professional development platform
Best of all I think our group will carry on collaborating
I learned about the power of working as a community
Timeline
INTRO WORKSHOPS
with local school teams and coaches
INTRO WORKSHOPS
April
with local school teams and coaches
KICK OFF EVENT
with all participants and coaches
A guided and fast-paced innovation sprint on our collaborative platform
Sparkling inputs with innovative school stories for inspiration
Method inputs to guide the innovation journey
Individual meetings organized as wished by teams
Mentoring sessions booked as needed
KICK OFF EVENT
with all participants and coaches
SHOWCASE EVENT
with all participants and coaches
SHOWCASE EVENT
with all participants, coaches and policy makers
IMPLEMENTATION
with school communities, coaches and policy makers
IMPLEMENTATION
with school communities, coaches and policy makers
Coached implementation in schools by the network
Systematic follow-up
Implementation of innovative projects in schools
Collaborative platform
Community sharing
Targeted support by international team of school innovation coaches
Meet some of our school innovators
US • Japan
Education Leader, Writer & Speaker
US • Switzerland
Founder of The Educators’ Lab, co-author of The Startup Teacher Playbook
US • Middle East • International
Founder at
Learning Futures
Brazil • Latin America
Edunovator, Teacher, Board Member, Mentor, Author & Speaker
Spain • Latin America
Director of Research and Education Projects UpSocial
Germany
Senior Lecturer & Product Designer
Spain
Educational consultant, Learning designer
Middle East
Co-founder of Eduentreprise and WomenEdMENA
Italy
Programme manager in Ashoka, researcher, trainer, actor
South Africa • International
Co-founder Africa Voices Dialogue, Collaboration Convener, Mentor
Australia
Director and Founder of Real Time Learning
Hong Kong
Learning Experience [Co] Designer and Project-Based Learning Consultant
Thailand • International
Co-founder of Coconut Thinking, School director of Learning and Teaching, Teacher
Indonesia
Co-founder of Junglo and The Cool Education Company
Method
A proven Design Thinking process tailored to schools
Expected deliverable
Video submission
Each team is expected to create their own video to showcase their process and their proposed solution. Teams are encouraged to upload their videos to a streaming platform and make them public so that the judges can view them and make their decision
Video format
2-3 minute video which includes :
- Problem: explain the needs you uncovered or challenges you solved
- Solution: what is your proposals for addressing the challenges
- Prototype: a prototype demo of the proposed tool
- Benefits: who are you solving for and how are they benefiting
- Implementation: how you can make your solution real
Contact us
If you have specific questions, you can contact us at hello@innovationhub.school.
Otherwise, you can directly join the community by creating an account on our collaboration platform and/or sign up to receive our newsletter.
FAQs
All education dreamers are welcome to join the community. Click on JOIN THE COMMUNITY and select ‘As an Education Dreamer’ in the form.
Here is also a social media kit to spread the word about the event.
SCHOOL TEAMS
If you work at a school but can’t gather a team right now, it is possible to participate individually; in this case we will team you up with other participants from other countries. This was the case for many teams of the 2020 edition and proved very enriching for all.
Teams should not contain more than 6 members. However you are welcome to sign up a second team if you want to.
All collective events are recorded and you can view them whenever suits you. You only have to coordinate suitable timeslots to work with your team.
– During the Sprint about 1-2 hours per day on average, total 10-15 hours per participant over two weeks
– Preparation: 2-3 hours
– Debrief and next steps: 1-2 hours
We encourage to involve 1-2 learners, for instance engaged student representatives at your school, directly in your team so to work from all perspectives. If this proves difficult, there is also the possibility for punctual involvement of learners, e.g. during the “explore” step (interview the in order to get their voices), “ideate” (call for ideas), or “try” (test your concept with them).
Yes, it’s the whole point of (re)School to foster cross-fertilization. Among others, there will be pedagogic, technology and process experts available for you to join one of your team sessions and provide feedback. And we will match you with one or several other school teams working on a similar topic. You can also reach out proactively to any member of the international community through our platform.
You can find details on the contribution here.
The main objective of this contribution is tu ensure commitment from school teams, which is why we encourage you to contribute with an amount that you can afford.
INNOVATION COACHES
It’s really up to you! Highly recommended you participate in one of the two briefing sessions for coaches and thought leaders in the week of April 25th.
Coaching a school team shouldn’t take you more than 2 or 3 hours in total.
All other activities are optional for you, based on your availability: you can facilitate a cross-fertilization session among schools, give sparkling input or be part of the Jury. And you are of course invited to the key events
You are welcome to join the community. Click on JOIN THE COMMUNITY and select ‘As an Education Dreamer’ in the form.
THOUGHT LEADERS AND EDUCATION DREAMERS
It’s really up to you! Highly recommended you participate in one of the two briefing sessions for coaches and thought leaders in the week of April 25th.
Coaching a school team shouldn’t take you more than 2 or 3 hours in total.
All other activities are optional for you, based on your availability: you can facilitate a cross-fertilization session among schools, give sparkling input or be part of the Jury. And you are of course invited to the key events
Yes, we also encourage education dreamers to participate to the sprint, providing their perspective and ideas for the school of the future. You can bring your own team members for your community, or we can match you with like-minded education dreamers from other parts of the world.