Our How: An "Open Source" Framework for Innovation
We fundamentally believe that everyone has the creative capacity to improve the world around them. It is with that belief that we use Open Design processes to boldly approach every challenge without necessarily knowing how it will be solved. Our work with schools is never based on cookie-cutter, one-size-fits all programs. Rather, we employ an empathy driven approach that is grounded in the following core principles - what we call the ingredients of learner-centered innovation:
Living Mission & Vision
The school understands its "why" and its "how" and is living them through the actions and outcomes one sees in every classroom, every lesson, every day.
Collective Leadership
Everyone is empowered to grow their skill, talent, and leadership capacity by exercising autonomy, mastery, and purpose in the work they do for and with students.
Radical Collaboration
The default mode of every interaction and decision is collaborative - between students, between peers, and between partners in the larger community.
Open Source Sharing
The school is an authentic learning organization, characterized by collective efficacy through the open sharing, critique, and revision of ideas and resources.
Systemic
Innovation
The school uses a continuous improvement mindset to design, implement, and refine learner-centered strategies that better aligns with the Future of Work.
The Open Way Learning Theory of Change
Our Source Code
Open Up, Education! is the book that began the Open Way Learning movement. Backed by research and filled with case studies and examples from around the world, it provides the basis for how educators can leverage the open source principles of transparency, inclusivity, adaptability, community, and collaboration to bring positive disruption to the education ecosystem by modeling and sharing learner-centered innovations in their own schools - environments that prepare students with the skills & knowledge needed to thrive in a rapidly changing world.
Published by Rowman & Littlefield. Also available from: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Google Books, Trove, & Bokus.
The OWL Team
A passionate team of education stakeholders willing to disrupt the status quo...
