Rosina is an inspiration to creative education. Modeling the davincilifeskills to a world audience and global governments, her team have built a revolutionary re-think of how we educate and learn.
We finished a successful pilot with Chatmore British International School, Bermuda last week. We will now be working with them to develop our high school curriculum for September. The pilot finished with two great projects. In our Food pathway students presented their research on reasons to choose a vegan diet and then designed and made their own vegan burgers. In Enterprise students presented sustainable and ethical companies and organizations that they had designed to make a positive difference in the world. #projectbasedlearning #futureofeducation #sustainability
We are so excited to be talking at the World Education Summit in March about our Biophilic Education movement. We are sharing our vision for the future of education with Angela Fubler the Founder of Chatmore British International School, Bermuda, where we have our second pilot of the Da Vinci Life-Skills Curriculum. Come and listen. #futureofeducation #WorldEdSummit
A big thank you to the UCL Education Innovation and Edupreneurship Society for putting together such a well organised event on Thursday. I had a wonderful afternoon discussing the future of education with a brilliant group of innovators - Zubair Junjunia FRSA, Walter Kerr, Serj Hunt, Tim Neumann and Nikita Khandwala. We discussed how technology and AI are poised to pull the rug from under the current system and how students are not being taught the vital life-skills they will need for the volatile job markets of the future. Through the industrial revolution the UK led the world in high level education for all, but now it is lagging behind and in desperate need of renovation, particularly in England. There are loads of amazing entrepreneurs trying hard to build a new vision of education for the 21st century, but England's restrictive OFSTED led environment can make it really hard for innovators and schools to test new pedagogies. This discussion needs to keep being had until our government listens and writes policies for systemic change! Thank you Frank Yang, Nidhi Anand Joshi, Menglong Bao, Josie Ding, Enkhzaya Ganzorig, Shu Ham Chan, Tess Xiao and Grace Xue #innovation #futureofeducation
Home page for this visionary, forward thinking collective. https://davincilifeskills.com/newsandmedia.html#top
Rosina presenting her Biophilic Education vision at the COBIS conference. She was speaking with Angela Fubler, the Founder of Chatmore British International School, Bermuda, where we will be delivering our Da Vinci Life-Skills curriculum from September.
Company name change from Da Vinci Life-Skills to Biophilic Education Alliance (BE All). Biophilia - the "passionate love of life and all that is alive... whether in a person, a plant, an idea, or a social group." - Erich Fromm We have had an incredible few months since our last newsletter and we are really excited to share our progress and update you all with some exciting news! Empathy middle school in Bali finished their first action packed school year delivering our Da Vinci Life-Skills curriculum and assessment framework. We have had wonderful feedback from students, parents and teachers and celebrated our first graduation. After a successful two-week pilot in January, Chatmore British International school, Bermuda are preparing to deliver our curriculum over the next academic year for their high school students. In Cambridge, UK we are excited to announce that we have opened admissions for our first BE Learning Hub starting in September 2023 for students aged 10+. "I am learning things I will need for life in a fun and engaging way." (DVLS Student) BE Learning Hub Cambridge Our first Biophilic Education (BE) Learning Hub in the UK is enrolling students for an initial three days a week at a fabulous site at Arrington Village Hall, SG8 0AH, 20 mins south of Cambridge. This is a temporary site until we grow a big enough cohort to find a site closer to the centre of Cambridge. We are offering a 30% discount for students signing up before August 15th 2023. If you are interested in a place for your child, email rosina@davincilifeskills.com or click here to find out more. Versatile Classroom We have a well stocked open planned classroom for an initial cohort of 12 students. Downstairs we have a locker room and amenities. Large Hall We have use of the large Arrington Village Hall and the municipal kitchens beneath the classroom. Outside Learning Our Hub backs onto the Wimpole Hall country estate with acres of grassland and woodland, we also have access to a nearby playground/park for lots of outside learning.
Are you part of a new school or learning community? Are you looking for a curriculum to nurture the whole person? The Biophilic Education Alliance (BE All) has created the holistic Da Vinci Life-Skills curriculum for students aged 10+ and are offering you the opportunity to implement it at your learning community. To keep the cost as low as possible, they are giving educators the chance to be trained as a group so that the fee can be shared between several schools and learning community start-ups. They are looking for 10 participants from #startup (or newly established) schools and learning communities to form a cohort for their Biophilic Education Mentor #training, to commence in September 2023. Please join this online information session with BE All co-founder Rosina Dorelli on July 24th if you would like to find out more. Da Vinci Life-Skills Curriculum BE All’s #DaVinciLifeSkills #curriculum has five project pathways (as opposed to conventional #school #subjects), including: 1. Food (nutrition/permaculture/cooking/world food); 2. Enterprise (product design/engineering/entrepreneurship); 3. Multiverse Games (role play/LARPing/animation/SEL); 4. Production (film/theatre/music/events/exhibitions); 5. Personal Exploration (autonomy/curiosity/passion). Training At BE All schools, adult staff members are #mentors rather than #teachers. BE All Mentor development courses are offered to BE licensed #schools and #learning communities: “Biophilic Education is a new approach to teaching and learning, bringing together years of academic research in the fields of #psychology and #neuroscience. We are shifting the values away from an all knowing, authoritative #teacher figure that stands at the front of the class to fill empty children with remembered knowledge, to a shared learning journey where a teacher becomes a #facilitator of learning. We ask #students what they are interested in, what they are #curious about and help them discover where their #talents lie. We foster environments where both teachers and students can explore their #passions, grow in #confidence and #collaborate to produce #innovative and #imaginative solutions to the worlds problems.” Are you interested in implementing Biophilic Education in your school or learning community? If you would like to find out more about the Da Vinci Life Skills curriculum and BE Mentor training, please join BE All co-founder, Rosina Dorelli in this online information session. If you can’t make the date, you can still sign up, and the recording will be sent to you afterwards. Are you part of a new school or learning community? Are you looking for a curriculum to nurture the whole person? The Biophilic Education Alliance (BE All) has created the holistic Da Vinci Life-Skills curriculum for students aged 10+ and are offering you the opportunity to implement it at your learning community. To keep the cost as low as possible, they are giving educators the chance to be trained as a group so that the fee can be shared between several schools and learning community start-ups. They are looking for 10 participants from #startup (or newly established) schools and learning communities to form a cohort for their Biophilic Education Mentor #training, to commence in September 2023. Please join this online information session with BE All co-founder Rosina Dorelli on July 24th if you would like to find out more. Da Vinci Life-Skills Curriculum BE All’s #DaVinciLifeSkills #curriculum has five project pathways (as opposed to conventional #school #subjects), including: 1. Food (nutrition/permaculture/cooking/world food); 2. Enterprise (product design/engineering/entrepreneurship); 3. Multiverse Games (role play/LARPing/animation/SEL); 4. Production (film/theatre/music/events/exhibitions); 5. Personal Exploration (autonomy/curiosity/passion). Training At BE All schools, adult staff members are #mentors rather than #teachers. BE All Mentor development courses are offered to BE licensed #schools and #learning communities: “Biophilic Education is a new approach to teaching and learning, bringing together years of academic research in the fields of #psychology and #neuroscience. We are shifting the values away from an all knowing, authoritative #teacher figure that stands at the front of the class to fill empty children with remembered knowledge, to a shared learning journey where a teacher becomes a #facilitator of learning. We ask #students what they are interested in, what they are #curious about and help them discover where their #talents lie. We foster environments where both teachers and students can explore their #passions, grow in #confidence and #collaborate to produce #innovative and #imaginative solutions to the worlds problems.” Are you interested in implementing Biophilic Education in your school or learning community? If you would like to find out more about the Da Vinci Life Skills curriculum and BE Mentor training, please join BE All co-founder, Rosina Dorelli in this online information session. If you can’t make the date, you can still sign up, and the recording will be sent to you afterwards. vv
