Sustainable Learning Library

The purpose of this companion guidance is to provide practical and hands-on technical guidance on developing a theory of change as an integral part of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) process.

Presented by Ann PerssonWith an impending teacher shortage and veterans leaving the classroom at unprecedented rates, keeping our educators in the classroom ...

Learn more about the Art and Practice of Adaptive Leadership program from Adel Gamar, instructor at UBC Sauder Executive Education

The complex issues of our time are too much for any one leader to handle alone. Hal Gregersen and Deborah Ancona, who head the MIT Leadership Center, explore...

Ever heard of distributed leadership? If not, you must know about it now. Read the article to know about distributed leadership and its benefits in detail.

Too often programs that serve girls in STEM are limited in service and impact due to size, location, funding, expertise, and equipment. In other cases, proj...

Rasmus Heltberg and Anna Aghumian examine the role of convenings in international development with a focus on the World Bank.

Reductions to UK aid have highlighted the need to understand both how international development research has, and can continue to, effect positive change. Here, Pauline Rose and Elizabeth Tofaris r…

How to plan for and implement effective evaluation in an initiative.

Mercy Corps calls for a radical departure to achieve better outcomes in states plagued by conflict-driven crises, offering a unifying framework to galvanize investments towards sources of resilience.

Learn how to use a collective impact approach to address complex social problems.

A well-designed course should include a series of learning experiences – leveraging different modalities - that allow the learning process to extend across time, provide students opportunities to engage in a variety of diverse activities, and scaffolding to achieve learning objectives. Engaging in …

I. Take Responsibility III. Practice Leadership Embrace complexity:  The world and how we live and work together are becoming increasingly interconnected and massively more complex. Complex problems have unique characteristics that make them impossible to solve in our old ways. We need to understand complexity better, how the world really works and how we can …

In this video, we review the definition of stakeholder, stakeholder engagement as well as the concepts and methods of stakeholder engagement.

Published in Childhood Education (Vol. 99, No. 2, 2023)

Modernizing Learning: Building the Future Learning Ecosystem is an implementation blueprint for connecting learning experiences across time and space.

The increasingly complex and interdependent environmental, social, economic, and cultural challenges facing humanity within our biosphere indicate a clear need for societal transformation toward viable and life affirming futures. Learning ecosystems have the potential to unite diverse stakeholders in collective learning for mutually beneficial outcomes that lead toward desired futures for humanity and all life on Earth.

Explore Universal Design for Learning principles for maximizing ways for students to engage with and learn in your classroom.

What is Theory of Change (TOC)? Theory of change (TOC) is a detailed description and illustration of how and why the desired change is expected [...]

This blog was written by Nancy Peek, M&E Fellow, USAID/KEA/FFP and Laurie Starr, Strategic Learning Advisor, Save the Children

Listening is a skill that’s vitally important, sadly undertaught, and physically and mentally taxing. In the aftermath of Covid-19, particularly with the shift to remote work and the red-hot job market, it’s never been more important — or more difficult — for leaders to be good listeners. This article offers nine tips to help leaders become more active listeners, and a breakdown of the subskills involved in listening and how you can improve in them.

Digital Promise’s Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters) initiative supports regional communities of practice in bringing together diverse...