If you have access to a poster printer, adding a values word cloud to the wall can brighten the classroom space and communicate the expectations and norms of your classroom community.

There is a push for young people to develop digital skills and yet we forget that it is those with the best reading skills that are better able to navigate the digital world.

David Bowie

Support Students to Define Their Values

It also risks transforming education from a social to an individualistic endeavour. While this is desirable in many contexts, we are only just beginning to realize the negative consequences when this approach is generalized.

The issues are complex, and we need to be prudent. We should be in no doubt that the right to education is challenged, in war zones as well as in many more invisible ways – and data have helped build the case. But what we have been unable to do is assign the responsibility fairly for these violations and decide on the measures to redress them.

CoCreate a Visible Culture Map

We have never been as knowledgeable about environmental science and yet perhaps never as distant from adjusting our behaviours for the benefit of future generations. We have not found the means to agree upon whether a curriculum may not be contributing to international understanding and act upon this.

As we talk about the future of this right and the biggest threats it is facing, we should not just refer to the ignominy of Afghanistan and of those countries affected by conflict, where the violations are blatant.