Schools

Education for a Better World

 

Hearth Advisors helps schools meet their academic, social, cultural, and economic challenges across K12 and early childhood institutions. Different approaches are used to analyse the school’s strengths and weaknesses, reduce barriers that may hinder communication internally and externally, improve quality, and develop training plans consistent with the context’s needs. We advise on the strategic planning, pre-operational design, and operational roll-out of new schools.

 

Our school design thinking process enables the creation of learning communities for the future, where the schools are dynamic, adaptive, self-organising systems, capable and inherently designed to renew themselves and grow and change. Our work with both new and existing schools tries to address the following questions:

  • How might we create high-performing learning experiences at our school?
  • How might we (re)design our approach to infrastructure and architectural design, curriculum development and delivery to centre on our teachers’ and students’ needs and desires?

 

We develop an Education Design as a guiding document for new schools regarding the education philosophy, operational methodology, and overall concept strategy. We also provide detailed guidelines and conceptual ideas in an Infrastructure Design that guides architects and planners in preparing institutional designs. Our ongoing work with institutions guides the founding team members from initial feasibility to the school’s launch and beyond.

 

For existing schools, we conduct Education Audits, which may focus on revisiting the institution’s vision and ambition or performing a more comprehensive study and detailed analysis of the present situation. Our participative process guides the institution’s further development.

 

Many of today’s schools need to be more suited to the changing future pedagogy, curriculum and learner expectations that can already be anticipated. The world schools are being designed for is changing, propelled by some powerful drivers. Globally, new pedagogies are emerging. Data sciences and intelligent technologies have been catalysts for change and critical tools to change learning. Hearth Advisors can be a crucial partner for schools in their developmental journey.