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

A practical skill? A way of thinking? Something you've learned the hard way? Or, an idea you wish more people understood? A big part of Teaching for a Complex World is exploring what helps people navigate life and better understand the world around them. I'm curious what we'd prioritize if each of us had just one thing to pass along. What would you choose? A short answer is perfectly fine, but I'd also love to hear why you chose it!

I'm excited to share a little personal milestone with you all: my first podcast interview has officially been released! I had the pleasure of joining Theresa Hoover and Kathryn Finch on Pass the Baton: Empowering Students in Music Education to discuss music education, sustainability, and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). We explored connections between the work music educators already do and some of the larger questions surrounding sustainability, student voice, collaboration, and the future of education. A huge thank you to Theresa and Kathryn for the invitation and for making my first podcast experience so welcoming and enjoyable. I admire their commitment to empowering students and encouraging thoughtful conversations within music education. Watch: https://youtu.be/p-U-62YTPe4 Listen: https://bit.ly/4zZv4UQ I'd love to hear what resonates with you, especially how you see connections between student agency, music-making, and sustainability in your own teaching.

Hi everyone, It means so much to me that you are part of this growing community — thank you for being here! I wanted to send a quick note in case you missed the announcement: the Founding Pilot of Foundations of ESD is now live. I’ve been building this course to help educators understand Education for Sustainable Development without treating it as something enormous, abstract, or separate from the teaching and learning they already do. Start Here and Module 1 — What Is ESD? are available now, including the course transcripts and editable Working Document. The remaining modules are currently in production and will be released progressively: - Coming next: Module 2 — See the Relationships - Module 3 — Judge What Matters - Module 4 — Frame the Inquiry - Module 5 — Design the Learning - Module 6 — Test + Revise - Finish — Foundations Design Brief The Founding Pilot is $29 as a one-time purchase. If you join during the pilot, that includes the entire course as the remaining modules are released—you won’t need to purchase them separately. Once the full course is complete, the Founding Pilot will close and the price for new learners will increase to $79. Anyone who joins during the pilot keeps access to the completed course at no additional cost. Because this is a pilot, I’ve also created a Founding Pilot Feedback thread. Feedback is completely optional, but if you participate, I’d genuinely value hearing what feels clear, useful, confusing, missing, or harder than it needs to be. Your experience can help shape the course as I continue building it. If you’ve been curious about ESD and looking for a practical place to begin, I’d love to have you be part of this first group. And if you know another educator, teacher educator, or colleague who might find the course useful, please feel free to share it with them or invite them to join us. Founding Pilot: $29 one time Start Here + Module 1 available now All future modules included as they are released I’m very glad to finally have this out in the world—and grateful to have you here while I build it. 😄

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.