Interdisciplinary Subject Development Program
Discover & Define
Workshop & Tooling
Implement & Change
The premiere of the film produced by HTT – and created by high-class filmmakers – highlighting education around the world is just a few days away in Columbus, during the HTT Summit 2023 at Ohio State University. Meanwhile, we invite you to watch the trailer.
Interview with Sherry Lassiter, President and SEO of Fab Foundation, and Rodney Williams, who works there as a Program Manager. The Fab Foundation is an organization in Boston, USA, which has become a grantee of HTT for the preparation of the IDS (Interdisciplinary Subject) concept, a methodological tool to enable…
17 March 2023
As recently as the 1950s, South Korea’s economy was not too different from those of sub-Saharan African countries (calculated by the amount of GDP per capita). Today, South Korea is one of the world’s most thriving economies, primarily due to a collective drive for education and an extremely hard-working nature…
29 December 2022
At the HTT 2023 Summit at Ohio State University, Columbus, attendees will not only hear lectures by global education experts…
15 February 2023
The HTT educational summit at Ohio State University, Columbus, US, is coming soon (March 4). On the agenda, among others,…
10 February 2023
Interview with Prof. Dominika Dudek, psychiatrist, president of the Polish Psychiatric Association, head of the Department of Psychiatry at Jagiellonian…
30 January 2023
An interview with Anna Szulc, a mathematics teacher from Kazimierz Wielki High School in Zdunska Wola, Poland, who does not…
16 January 2023
The book of Manfred Spitzer provokes thoughts about the impact digitalization bears on our existence. According to the author, one…
09 January 2023
Holistic Think Tank aims to create a common base of lessons’ scenarios built on the values from the What School…
03 January 2023
Three grantees are working with us to develop and implement an interdisciplinary subject (IDS). And while they share a mutual…
21 December 2022
The amount of studying imposed on students is a systemic problem, not the teachers’ idea – says one of the…
09 December 2022
Schools ought to teach what is relevant and applicable in the day-to-day interaction in life, either at work or in…
29 November 2022
Currently, various countries all over the globe – following the global educational trend that emphasizes 21st-century competencies – have undertaken…
29 November 2022
In 2015, Kenya began introducing a new holistic and interdisciplinary curriculum. Its premise – to raise a generation that will…
29 November 2022
As a result of research conducted by HTT in order to develop new educational solutions, we announced an international competition…
24 November 2022
23 November 2022
Today’s students need a multi-dimensional set of skills: the ones for both their present and future lives, abilities they can…
07 November 2022
The dominance of private education, overprotective parents helping children with their homework, and numerous tutors – this approach to education…
07 November 2022
Most teachers dream of education that will develop students’ talents, show them how to resolve problems, communicate efficiently, analyze sources…
07 November 2022
South Korean participants in the HTT research project see school as a community that reflects the society in general. By…
17 October 2022
STEAM education tries to integrate the learning experience, with a focus on connecting the subjects of science, technology, engineering, mathematics,…
17 October 2022
The core of the Brazilian curriculum fosters ten general competences that contribute to the holistic formation and education of children.…
17 October 2022
10 October 2022
10 October 2022
10 October 2022
“There is one world – let’s learn to look at it as a whole, through the lens of various subjects,…
10 October 2022
As one of the Holistic Think Tank grant program beneficiaries, the University of Sheffield, has prepared its own concept of…
09 October 2022
Teachers who took part in the HTT research project in Brazil dream of a student-centered and reality-based education that inspires…
29 September 2022
What kind of skills and knowledge should be taught in schools for the world’s better future – this was the…
27 September 2022
South African participants in the HTT research project stressed the importance of holistic development of students which is most successfully…
27 September 2022
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom…
27 September 2022
Professor, we are really grateful for this opportunity to talk to you. For us, Holistic Think Tank, it is really…
21 September 2022
We sometimes hear the expression of a rather melancholic notion that we were, in fact, born too late to have…
21 September 2022
Children starting off on their educational journey ought to be provided with opportunities to develop in many different directions. Emphasis,…
21 September 2022
Holistic Think Tank recently awarded a research grant to Fab Lab Foundation for creating a new interdisciplinary subject. Today we…
21 September 2022
Education for global citizenship, in its critical rather than “soft” version, invites students to question existing social order and to…
21 September 2022
Functioning in a relationship with the state should be an important part of the life of each and every one…
21 September 2022
“What is the purpose of the school?” – this question seems to have an obvious answer. The objective of the…
21 September 2022
Travelling through different places allow for observing rich fauna and flora, describing the landscape and recording the most beautiful views.…
21 September 2022
Communication is a basic tool of knowledge transfer in a school situation. The child and the adult communicate with each…
20 September 2022
We all agree that the school should not only impart knowledge, but also help develop specific skills. The catalog of…
20 September 2022
The use of techniques based on the achievements of behaviorism stirs rampant emotions among education specialists. It is worth remembering,…
20 September 2022
The Holistic Think Tank team has been working for many months on an international research project on primary school education.…
20 September 2022
“I think we should increase the potential of children now, which will enable them to take responsibility for their own…
20 September 2022
Statistics indicate a growing interest in homeschooling among many members of the public. In Italy, over the past two years,…
20 September 2022
Today we face the reality of modern society: neither education nor production systems are tailored to develop 21st century competences.…
20 September 2022
A list compiled by the Holistc Thnik Tank researchers – Jan Bazyli Klakla and Katarzyna Pająk-Załęska – based on preliminary analyses and…
20 September 2022
The school in focus is located in one of the biggest and wealthiest cities in the Philippines. It was established…
08 September 2022
The research aim of the project is an investigation into a particular school environment along with the roles played by…
08 September 2022
"Education is the mos powerful weapon you can use to change the world" - said Nelson Mandela. In Holistic Think Tank, we belive that a change in education system is possible. And we know how to do it.
In this podcast, you will meet people from all over the world, who not only believe but just work on education change.
Christoph Drösser has a graduate degree in mathematics and has written numerous general interest books, covering topics as varied as music and the brain, math, physics, logic, and weather. This German science journalist is based in San Francisco and we speak with him to find out about some fascinating connections between different school subjects and our abilities and predispositions in learning and studying these subjects. Please join our listening!
The Latvian Ministry of Education and Science is proposing a number of changes to the current approach to education in order to develop, approve and successively introduce a curriculum that would develop value-based knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary in the 21st century. This project is called “Competency approach in the curriculum” or School 2030 (Skola 2030). Today we are talking to educators about how this reform works in practice.
Holistic Think Tank recently awarded a research grant to Fab Lab Foundation for creating a new interdisciplinary subject. Today we are joined by Monika Aring and Larry Hulbert from Fab Lab Foundation. The topic of our conversation is the interdisciplinary subject (IDS), its implementation and education reform.
The Theory of Constraints is a methodology for identifying the most important limiting factor (i.e., constraint) that stands in the way of achieving a goal and then systematically improving that constraint until it is no longer the limiting factor. This theory is used in many fields, we will concentrate on education. Today we are joined by Maciej Winiarek, an expert in critical thinking, former director of the TOCFE (TOC for Education) Foundation in the USA for Poland, co-founder of the non-public Thinking Zone school in Gdańsk, a Family Lab trainer, educator, publisher, blogger, presenter and certified tutor.
Media literacy education has been of high interest in Ukraine since the 2014 annexation of Crimea. The study of propaganda has become increasingly important, especially with the rise of fake news and disinformation during the current war in Ukraine. Today we are joined by Maryna Dorosh, a media literacy expert from Ukraine and we are talking about how media literacy can help children identify reliable sources and filter through the noise to get at the truth.
Educating for peace in times of war – the problem suddenly becomes very topical again. Today we are joined by Dennis de Vries, director of the Peaceful Education foundation from Utrecht to learn more about peaceful schools and their programme.
Today we are joined by Tomasz Wlazlo, a parent from Poland, who, while living in various countries, was looking for a good international education for his free daughters. We will talk about the challenges and strengths of the International Baccalaureate education programme from the parents’ point of view.
Today we are joined by Agatha Panait, an educator from Chicago and we talk about the American education system. We discuss social emotional learning as the idea for a multidisciplinary model of teaching, about the relations between teacher and parent, about the American model of school and curricula.