Innovation for learning

Innovation you live every day, not one you announce.

Five learning strands, twelve milestones reframed as capabilities, and spaces where learning becomes visible.

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Innovation with evidence

Innovation is not rhetoric: it is a system.

We test every practice with real data before scaling it. What changes learning stays; what doesn’t is dropped.

Student learning

Five strands that shape the whole person.

Guided by the UNESCO 2022 framework, shared across both schools.

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Civic and sustainable

Agents of change committed to society and the environment: responsible, leaders, autonomous.

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Technological

Critical digital natives, mindful of how they use technology: connected, reflective, selective.

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Emotional

Recognizing and managing emotions, communicating with respect: honest, empathetic, persevering.

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Social

Valuing diversity, solidarity and acceptance of others: supportive, empathetic, good companions.

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Creative and innovative

Curiosity, critical thinking and the search for diverse sources: curious, reflective, able to reason.

What sets us apart

12 milestones. But they are not programs: they are capabilities.

Reordered around one question: what capability does each build, and what changes because of it?

Student capabilities 6 milestones
Fab Labs
Purpose: learning by designing and building.
What changes: from consuming knowledge to creating real solutions.
Early literacy
Purpose: that everyone reads by the end of 1st grade (Astoreca).
What changes: no one is left behind at the doorway to learning.
Philosophy to innovate
Purpose: critical thinking and reasoning.
What changes: students who question, justify and decide.
Social-emotional learning
Purpose: recognizing and managing emotions.
What changes: whole-person development becomes a habit.
Think, create and code
Purpose: computational thinking in the curriculum.
What changes: solving problems with digital logic from an early age.
Bridge Milestones
Purpose: cross-curricular assessments by grade level.
What changes: gaps are spotted in time, not later.
Teacher capabilities 3 milestones
Smart Meetings
Purpose: Meeting Wise (Harvard) in every session.
What changes: team time becomes learning.
PRED — Teaching Excellence
Purpose: recognizing and rewarding innovation (20+ years).
What changes: professional pride drives improvement.
Evidence-based management
Purpose: short improvement cycles with data.
What changes: we iterate before scaling: evidence first.
Community capabilities 3 milestones
Three-Way Gatherings
Purpose: student, teacher and parent around shared commitments.
What changes: community life becomes a pedagogical practice.
Participatory school project (PEI)
Purpose: co-creating the project with the community.
What changes: the school’s direction belongs to everyone.
Innovation Steering Committee
Purpose: leading and sustaining the culture of innovation.
What changes: ideas are piloted, evaluated and scaled with method.
A culture of innovation

Innovation is sustained by a team that learns together.

The Innovation Steering Committee and FEDUCA’s teams pilot, evaluate and transfer high-impact initiatives between both schools. Behind every practice there are people who train to make it possible.

The FEDUCA team at the UC Innovation Center

The FEDUCA team at the UC Innovation Center.

Theoretical foundations

Our reference frameworks

FEDUCA’s innovation is not improvised — it rests on theoretical frameworks backed by international evidence, adapted to the context of Chile’s state-subsidized schools.

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Richard Elmore — The Instructional Core

The teacher–student–content triad at the center of every improvement decision. Instructional leadership in the service of learning in the classroom.

Harvard Graduate School of Education
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Heifetz — Technical and Adaptive Change

The distinction between problems with known solutions and challenges that require transforming beliefs and practices. It guides our change strategy.

Kennedy School · Harvard
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City & Parker Boudett — Meeting Wise

A methodology that turns team meetings into spaces for collective learning, with clearly defined purpose, process and product.

Harvard Education Press
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Improvement Science — Carnegie Foundation

PDSA cycles applied to educational improvement. Real data, small hypotheses, rapid iteration. Before scaling, pilot with evidence.

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
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Dweck — Growth Mindset

Intelligence develops through effort and strategy. This belief permeates teacher feedback, our relationships with families and FEDUCA’s culture.

Stanford University
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Learning Forward — Professional Development Standards

A framework so that the learning of the adults who educate is as rigorous as what we expect of students. It guides our PLCs and gatherings.

Learning Forward · International
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