We heard from Louka Parry (The Learning Future) and Nicole Dyson (Future Anything).

Please see a copy of the slidedeck here.

Nic & Louka also announced a partnership between Future Anything and The Learning Future to support schools to move from vision and strategy to reality in the classroom through a three-year engagement.

Year 1: Strategy & Vision

Year 2: Leadership, Culture & Pedagogy

Year 3: Curriculum, Capabilities (incl. Learner Profiles) and Classrooms

If you’re keen to chat more about this transformation work for your school, reach out to Nic (nicole@futureanything.com) and/or Louka (louka@thelearningfuture.com) directly.

Here’s the framework, tools and templates helpful to explicitly teach 21st Century skills (or soft skills, or general capabilities) in your classroom.

Capabilities Research

• You can explore the ACARA General Capabilities via the V9 website or through the QCAA information page.
• The 6 Cs of Deeper Learning are explored in two books by Michael Fullen (et. al.). Deep Learning: Engage the World Change the World and Dive into Deep Learning: Tools for Engagement (check your local library catalogue for a free copy).
• The work happening by the SACE Board in South Australia is discussed here. Check out our great Live Learning session with Hassan Mekawy (Program Manager – Education, SACE Board of South Australia) and Pip Cleaves (Deputy Principal – Strategic Initiatives, NSW Department of Education) which unpacked how we can prioritise the development of capabilities as integral to the purpose of education.
• New Metrics from Melbourne University have shared this resource pack about assessing agency in learning. You can learn more about the New Metrics partnership here.
• Read about the Matthew Flinders Anglican College Learning Powers launch here.

Future Anything Building Capabilities Resources

• The slides from the presentation are here.
• A recent blog on our update to the capabilities (with heaps of research) is here.
• If you want to see the list of books Nic most often recommends, you can check them out here. If you’ve got another one you’d recommend, please let her know!
• Nic’s blog on how we assess enterprise skills in our Activate classrooms is here. 
• Learn more about our approach to capability building in CEO Nic Dyson’s recent blog, Agency is the Antithesis of Compliance. 
• Learn more about Building Confident Communicators and Effective Project Management in Kate’s posts from last year, or why not dip into our article about Why Enterprise Skills and Superpowers.
• See the sample ChatGPT conversation here.

If this is your jam, you’ve still got time to jump into our Enterprising Curriculum online program. Over nine weekly workshops, we’ll support you to build a whole new unit of work. See more on this cohort-based professional development here.

Otherwise, key resources from this session are below:

• The key slides from the session can be found here.
• This is the canvas that we used for the session.
• Nic’s blog on designing a future-focused curriculum is here. This blog walks through a simple process to re-imagine curriculum.
• More on building relationships with students at the beginning of a school year/unit is here.
• More on nailing the context complexity of your units here.
• PBLWorks and High Tech High have a wealth of resources on Project-Based Learning, as well as exemplar projects and bucketloads of templates.
• This is our Project Rubric. It’s a student-friendly rubric that can be used to help teachers and students to assess projects.
• One of our Live Learning Online CPD sessions was on ‘Designing Joyful Curriculum’ with Joanne McEachen from The Learner First. If you missed it, you can check out the recording here. It’s a fantastic discussion around curriculum design principles. 
• Joanne references AMMA (Authentic Mixed Method Assessment) and Contributive Learning in the Live Learning session above. Check them out.
• In a previous Live Learning session, we also caught up with Laura McBain (d.school, Stanford, USA) and Kwaku Aning (Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Thinking, San Diego Jewish Academy, USA) on bringing the real world into the classroom through Project Based Learning. You can watch it here.

Using Future Anything’s Odyssey framework and our Catapult Cards, here are all the resources you need to take students from picking a problem through to pitching a solution.

Building Collaboration in an Enterprising Classroom

• Students are most successful in an enterprising classroom when they are supported to work in groups. You can read some strategies to support students in group work at the Future Anything blog here. 
• PBL Works has published useful guides to help teachers support their students in forming project teams and using roles in teams.
• You can also level up on building norms in groups and creating team contracts through further PBL Works resources.
• You can nab Catapult Cards for your classroom here.

How often do we invite students to the table to design curriculum with us? We heard from eager and candid young people as they provided real-time feedback on your learning in order to make them more real world, engaging and (dare we say?) more fun.

Resources:

• The key slides from the session are here.
• The OLMC ‘Activate Create -Your -Own’ Case study video is here.

We heard from a panel of industry leaders who unpacked a ‘cheat sheet’ of practical ways you can engage your local, regional or global community in your classroom.

• Hear from a panel of industry leaders who will unpack a ‘cheat sheet’ of practical ways you can engage your local, regional or global community in your classroom.
• Nic Dyson, founder of Future Anything, explores the importance of authenticity in this blog here.
• Our Live Learning session from Cambodia’s Liger Leadership Academy is a powerful story of real-world learning.
• In a previous Live Learning session, we also caught up with Laura McBain (d.school, Stanford, USA) and Kwaku Aning (Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Thinking, San Diego Jewish Academy, USA) on bringing the real world into the classroom through Project Based Learning. You can watch it here.
• Finally, you can find out more about our Activators and how they support our Activate schools as Entrepreneurs in Residence here.

We talked with two incredible educational leaders who are revolutionising traditional notions of learning and reimagining the future of education within their schools.

Resources:

• Connect with Pip Cleaves on LinkedIn here.
• Connect with Alex Bruhn on LinkedIn here.
• Read more about GVL here.
• Read more about YouthInc here.
• I mentioned Coorparoo Secondary College as a school that is doing things differently with their four day school week. We spoke to Chrissie Coogan, Principal, in one of our Live Learning sessions here.
• In the same Live Learning series, we went to Cambodia to chat with Liger Leadership Academy. It was a pretty incredible conversation.
• In this episode of Live Learning, we chatted with three principals who started their own schools. You can watch it here.

What is made possible when activating purposeful and strategic design in schools? We learned with (and from) The Learning Future as they lead us through practical activities to design and develop whole-school strategy and culture in a fun and collaborative way.

Resources below:

• The Strategic Project Template is here.
• The Quick Reference Guide is here.