Thank you for being here. School of Thought is a collective, a people-based learning community that is creating ripples of impact.
About School of Thought
School of Thought expands the definitions of school to be cross school and cross setting and about lifelong learning.
We do this through our blog, online learning gatherings and in person projects locally in Philadelphia. Learn more about us here.
Join the 1K+ blog readers from all fifty states in the US except Arkansas (please forward to an Arkansasian?) and across the world (hello, Kenya! Japan! Australia!) to engage in fresh takes on learning and learning sciences and to get inspired to apply research grounded in human connection.
We share big ideas and how to make them usable.
We do this by:
Advancing knowledge and promoting the voices of aligned empirical work,
Building a community of thinkers in an increasingly divided world, and
Committing to and sharing ways to enable change with evidence-based ideas from learning sciences that you can use in towards an enhanced definition of ROI.
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Who creates School of Thought?
My name is Jane, and I am a Philadelphia-based researcher, illustrator and community builder.
I have been everything from a student to a scientist, but find that I am most happy when I am co-creating with community. And visuals, which are available and commissionable here. I love learning about learning, and sharing that, which is really what this blog is all about.
In my experience, people who do research and the people who engage practice are not in the same places, and even if they were, they are not speaking the same language. I want to find ways to connect the two.
In the last few years, I’ve worked with a team to co-found a school, illustrated a children’s book, and co-created a learning community.
I love the intersection of research and practice, data and visuals, school and community. My work has been featured in academic journals, here and here, and popular publications. I’ve gotten to tell the story of our work on podcasts and in the news. But my favorite work is right here with School of Thought.
I curate School of Thought, and it is co-created by dozens of authors, educators, researchers, visualizers, entrepreneurs, and rethinkers from all over the world. This is a collective!
I would love for you to join us.