Inside the Strategic Intelligence Academy
Learn how our hub supports educators and learners, what systems literacy means, why improving thinking models matters, and who is involved.
Establish Research-Based Practices for Systems Education
Develop best practices for learning by combining systems thinking research, educational theory, and strategic intelligence tools to assist learners and educators in exploring complex systems effectively
Centralize Resources to Build Educator Capacity
Create a comprehensive repository for systems thinking knowledge, strategies, and research-based resources via an open-source platform to build educator capacity and enable seamless integration of these principles into practice.
Future-proof Educational Curriculum and Instruction
Improve educational practices by collaborating with education stakeholders to advocate for systems-focused learning approaches, equipping students with skills necessary for navigating information in our growingly complex world.
What is systems thinking?
Systems thinking is a holistic approach to understanding complex issues. It encourages a zoomed-out perspective that examines relationships, interactions, and patterns within a system, focusing on the big picture and interdependencies rather than isolated parts. In an increasingly complex world, we need a dynamic mindset that recognizes how each component influences others within a larger context.
Educational shortcomings
To develop essential thinking skills, systems must address outdated curricula and the lack of media literacy training for teachers and students. Instead, standardized testing and rote memorization continue to drive curricula, stifling curiosity and creativity in the classroom.
Answering a need
Evolving from the World Economic Forum's white paper Innovative Learning Solutions to Navigate Complexity: Adapting Systems Thinking to Future Classrooms, the Strategic Intelligence (SI) Academy aims to address the above-mentioned societal challenges. By integrating research from industry and academia, it offers educators a transdisciplinary one-stop shop for instructional support that promotes systems thinking and future-ready skills.
“The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological-social-psychological-economic system. We treat it as if it were not, as if it were divisible, separable, simple, and infinite. Our persistent, intractable global problems arise directly from this mismatch.”
Donella Meadows
Harvard University
“Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing ‘patterns of change’ rather than ‘static snapshots.”
Peter Senge
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"The one thing that would fix our broken education system is to shift our focus from information the teacher covers to knowledge the learner builds. This one thing would cascade positive change throughout the system."
Derek Cabrera
Cabrera Lab | Cornell University
Business and Technology University, Georgia
Cabrera Research Lab - Cornell University
Enderun Colleges
Princeton University
Convalence Global
Creativo
Rahmin Bender-Salazar
Innovation North
Canada
myBlueprint
Canada
Conrad Foundation
SparkPath
InnovaNation
Phillips Academy
Trinity College Dublin
The Knowledge Society
