Woodleigh Institute
Nurturing regenerative learning
Mission
The mission for the Woodleigh Institute is to understand and enhance transformative approaches to learning and leadership for the benefit of Woodleigh School and the wider education community.
Innovation Lab
We serve as a global innovation lab for the research, design and implementation of transformative approaches to learning and leadership in schools and communities.
The institute helps to drive the development of programs and practices to ensure that Woodleigh’s learning model stays relevant to the needs of its learners, the aspirations of its community, and the world in which they live.
It contributes to the wider education community and collaborates with schools, universities, and organisations, as a hub of an international ecosystem for innovation in education.
Partners
The Woodleigh Institute is committed to nurturing deep collaboration and learning for systems change in education. It serves as a hub for research-practice and social impact partnerships with a range of schools, universities, businesses, networks, and community organisations.
Our current partners and collaborators include Regen Melbourne, Learning Creates Australia, Center for Systems Awareness, MIT Systems Awareness Lab, Melbourne Assessment, Compassionate Systems Collective, and the OECD Schools Plus Network.
Regenerative Learning
Our practice and research are grounded in relational and systems perspectives of learning.
We understand that the development of knowledge, skills, understanding, and purpose are interrelated and emergent from the relationships that we have with ourselves, others, and the places where we live.
We apply this view to exploring the role that education can play in building the capacity of young people to contribute to the thriving of people, places, and our planet.
Impact
The institute was established in 2019. It engages in educational research that inspires thinking and action, supporting deep learning, creating new knowledge, and improving learning and leadership. The research from the institute provides an evidence base that informs professional practice and student learning across the campuses of Woodleigh School.
Our research is also shared with the wider education community and has been featured in a variety of international forums and publications. Our presentations include the UNESCO-APEID Conference, the ICSEI Congress, uLead and the CSE Teaching 21C Conference. Our research on Systems Leadership and Awareness-based Change was also published in a monograph by the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement.
