Education By Design
Education By Design
Podcast Description
The Education by Design podcast explores the architecture of learning environments—how schools are designed, not just operated—how culture is disrupted to make way for innovation and reaching potential. Your host, Phil Evans is a career educator and creative. His guests bring inspirational and practical ideas into classrooms, all over the world. Join him as he engages with innovators who untangle the complexity of educational systems to align with shared values, common practices, and a common language to create powerful, human-centered learning experiences. For any formal schooling system to have an impact, the central focus must be on learning. Let's learn together.
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on topics related to educational innovation, systems thinking, and reforming school culture, with specific episodes addressing issues like equitable practices, student agency, and redesigning learning spaces. For example, one episode delves into how spatial theory can reshape student narratives, while another discusses the impact of joy-centered pedagogies on teacher and student engagement.
The Education by Design podcast explores the architecture of learning environments—how schools are designed, not just operated—how culture is disrupted to make way for innovation and reaching potential.
Your host, Phil Evans is a career educator and creative. His guests bring inspirational and practical ideas into classrooms, all over the world. Join him as he engages with innovators who untangle the complexity of educational systems to align with shared values, common practices, and a common language to create powerful, human-centered learning experiences.
For any formal schooling system to have an impact, the central focus must be on learning. Let’s learn together.
Dive deeper on the EduByDesign Blog: https://edubydesign.com/blog
Join me as I dive into the future of education with Jenny Gillett, the lead architect of the International Baccalaureate's groundbreaking Systems Transformation pilot. In this episode, Jenny reveals how she and United World College communities co-create a two-year, transdisciplinary learning journey—tackling global challenges from biodiversity to river pollution—through systems thinking, design sprints, and challenge-based assessment.
You’ll hear:
- How students apply real-world problem solving under time pressure
- Why only three deeply reflective artifacts can tell a richer learning story than any exam
- The role of Principled Action, Systems Thinking, and Just Futures in empowering learner agency
- Strategies for training teachers in IB Approaches to Teaching and co-creative facilitation
- Insights on fairness, neuro-diversity, and scalable peer-powered professional development
Perfect for educators, school leaders, and innovators, this conversation showcases the power of collaborative innovation, accountable assessment, and community-driven change. Tune in and discover how to transform your classroom into a living lab of student-centered, systems-led learning.
To learn more about the pilot, visit Systems Transformation Pathway: Leadership for Just Futures or Leadership for just and sustainable futures A future-facing model for education
Here is a video featuring the student experience (YouTube)
You might also like to look at two curriculum overview documents: International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme Subject Brief: Systems transformation – Leadership for change and International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme Subject Brief: Systems transformation – Leadership for just futures
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