First of all, thank you for visiting Teaching for a Complex World! I'm beginning to explore what this space could become. Much of my work focuses on a question I've been thinking about for years: How can we help educators make sense of a complex, interconnected world and translate that understanding into useful, realistic teaching without simply adding more to their plates? I'll be using this space to experiment with practical resources, short learning experiences, conversations, and tools around systems thinking, sustainability, curriculum, teacher capacity, and education more broadly. Since I'm building this by learning from actual people rather than trying to design everything in advance, I'm curious: If you're an educator, what is one problem, question, or challenge you wish you had better tools for right now? I'm interested to see where this goes. Warmly, Kyle

Hello! Question about the "14 Practical Cards for Clearer Thinking" - are they to be used in these first two modules yet? I'm a bit lost...but I dig the cards!

Hi everyone, Module 2 of Foundations of Sustainable Development Education — See the Relationships is now available! In this module, we move from identifying a sustainability-related topic to looking more closely at the relationships that shape it: what contributes to the situation, what it affects, and how different parts of the system connect. If you’ve already purchased the course, Module 2 is included in the same $29 one-time price — there’s nothing additional to purchase. You can find the new module in the Classroom whenever you’re ready to continue. As always, I’d love to hear what stands out, what feels useful, or where something could be clearer as you work through it. Your feedback is especially valuable while I continue building the pilot. Thanks again for being part of this! 😄 Kyle

Thank you for being part of the pilot for Foundations of Sustainable Development Education. I’m building and releasing the course module by module, and your feedback is an important part of helping me improve it. You don’t need to wait until you finish the whole course to respond. If something stands out while you’re working through a module, feel free to come back here and share it. I’m especially interested in hearing: - What felt useful? What helped something click, gave you a new way of thinking, or felt applicable to your own teaching or work? - What was unclear? Was there anything you had to reread, replay, or work harder than expected to understand? - How did the examples work? Were they concrete enough? Did you want another example somewhere? - How did the activities and resources work? Were the templates, prompts, or exercises useful and manageable? - How did the pacing feel? Too fast, too slow, repetitive, or about right? - What felt missing? Was there a question you expected the course to answer that it did not? - What should I keep, change, cut, or add? - Did you notice any technical problems? Broken links, confusing navigation, audio/video issues, typos, or anything else that got in the way? You absolutely do not need to answer all of these. A sentence or two about something you noticed is useful. If you’re commenting on a specific part of the course, it would help if you mention the module or lesson—for example, “Module 2 — See the Relationships.” And please feel free to be candid. I’m not looking for people to tell me the course is good; I’m trying to learn where it works, where it doesn’t yet, and what would make it more useful for educators. You can leave feedback in the comments here as you go. If there’s something you’d rather share privately, you’re welcome to message me directly. Thank you again for helping me build this! — Kyle

Welcome—I’m genuinely glad you’re here. Teaching for a Complex World is for educators and others who care about the world learners will inherit and want to understand where education fits within the work of creating more sustainable, just, peaceful, culturally rich, resilient, and flourishing futures. Here, I translate Education for Sustainable Development, the Sustainable Development Goals, UNESCO’s wider educational frameworks, and systems thinking into clear questions, research-informed tools, and practical ways of looking under the hood of teaching. Music learning and teaching are my primary areas of expertise and point of entry into this work. Many of the questions and frameworks, however, can travel across subjects, professions, communities, and forms of learning. You can expect: - Short articles and voiceover videos - Research notes and works in progress - Systems questions, planning tools, and design frameworks - Honest discussion of evidence, uncertainty, and limitations - Opportunities to influence future resources, research, workshops, and professional learning The community is beginning as a free space. Some future courses, workshops, tools, or other offerings may be free or paid, depending upon interest and what is feasible. Anything optional will always be described clearly. You do not need to keep up with everything or arrive as an expert. Read quietly, ask a question, share something from your context, or respectfully challenge an idea. To introduce yourself, choose whichever question feels most natural: 1. Looking ahead: What do you hope education helps learners become capable of understanding, imagining, or doing? 2. Looking around: Where do you already see sustainability, systems thinking, cultural continuity, peace, justice, or flourishing within something you teach or care about? 3. Looking toward this community: What question, conversation, tool, or resource would make this space genuinely useful to you? A few honest sentences are enough. A question is also a perfectly good place to begin.