Fostering Future Friendly Schools & Social Innovation

Education for Social Innovation, with our partners at the Toronto District School Board. The new course, co-designed with a group of lead educators at the TDSB, brings together elements of our Student Voice and Global Citizenship e-courses with new content infusing topics of social change, entrepreneurship.

Technology for pedagogical documentation. Several of the most engaged schools also participated in our Future Friendly Schools program, gaining new perspectives on their strengths and opportunities though a survey of their stakeholders. Here’s a look at some of the outcomes generated through the words of participating educators and students.

Education for Social Innovation, with our partners at the Toronto District School Board. The new course, co-designed with a group of lead educators at the TDSB, brings together elements of our Student Voice and Global Citizenship e-courses with new content infusing topics of social change, entrepreneurship.

Technology for pedagogical documentation. Several of the most engaged schools also participated in our Future Friendly Schools program, gaining new perspectives on their strengths and opportunities though a survey of their stakeholders. Here’s a look at some of the outcomes generated through the words of participating educators and students.

Education for Social Innovation, with our partners at the Toronto District School Board. The new course, co-designed with a group of lead educators at the TDSB, brings together elements of our Student Voice and Global Citizenship e-courses with new content infusing topics of social change, entrepreneurship.

Technology for pedagogical documentation. Several of the most engaged schools also participated in our Future Friendly Schools program, gaining new perspectives on their strengths and opportunities though a survey of their stakeholders. Here’s a look at some of the outcomes generated through the words of participating educators and students.

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Leigh Melander PhD Spillian

Leigh Melander, PhD is a story weaver, a ridiculous revolutionary, and an inveterate meanderer. Why go straight ahead when there are always delightful side paths to discover? She is most excited about helping people to look deep into imagination and possibility, so they can find ways to bring their most beloved wild ideas to life. She works with both individuals and organizations as they invent new ways to make the world splendid. She is so lucky to have the most extraordinary launching pad, a Catskills retreat center on a remarkable historic estate, called Spillian: A Place to Revel. Spillian offers public and private events to mark moments of deep imagination and celebration in people's lives, and is, incidentally, is one of Leigh's big wild ideas. She's been writer as well as a performer in theater, dance and music around the world; a strategic planning and marketing consultant for commercial and nonprofit ventures; and has worked in community in a host of ways, from building sustainability tools to asset-based family resource centers. She is deeply committed to working to create a regenerative world. Her doctorate is in cultural mythology and psychology, and she served for five years on the Board of Directors of the Joseph Campbell Foundation. She's been featured on the History Channel as an expert on myth and story, hosted two radio programs on myth and imagination on an NPR affiliate in New York that is being reborn as the podcast Myth America, and is off planning her next adventure. Visit her at leighmelander.com.

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