Systems Awareness in Education
We believe that education can be a leading sector in helping shape the cultural changes needed throughout society and that education innovators around the world are busy doing just that. Online and in person, the MIT Systems Awareness Lab is leading conversations that bring together researchers, educators and practitioners to explore work in student and educator wellbeing, classroom practice, and collaborative leadership at the district, region, state and international levels. Discussions focus on the most pressing issues of our time, from climate change and equity to declining mental health and wellbeing.
This event series is made possible through the generous support of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and with founding support by MIT Comparative Media Studies/ Writing, MIT Open Learning, and the MIT Jameel World Education Lab.
Understanding profound change
How can we better understand profound change processes that can shift underlying mental models and institutional structures at multiple levels in education? Without trivializing or over-simplifying, how can we foster a sense of confidence that real systems change is possible?
Moving beyond the quick fix
How can busy educators and practitioners caught in the frenzy of everyday work and the challenges of our COVID-19 reality learn to pause, wonder, and explore how to get beyond our habitual quick-fix approaches as a substitute for deeper change?
Creating the conditions for systemic change
How do we develop more coherent strategies for creating the social and institutional conditions for larger scale and longer-term change?
Education as locus for societal innovation
How can we support a gradual re-orientation to seeing education, and especially pK-12 education, as a critical locus for societal innovation?