We met Sara Furnival during the Upper Grand District School Board’s annual “Learning Fair” in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada, in August 2019. We agreed at that time to invite her for an […]
Author Archives: Dr David Claivaz
When parents understand and support innovation at school – François-Xavier Berclaz
We met François-Xavier Berclaz in Bratsch, on the road to Leukerbad, in Haut-Valais, Switzerland. François-Xavier Berclaz is the father of two students from gd-Schule, a school that uses the project’s […]
Conversation on the risk at school
Edupreneurial Pivot devotes an essential chapter to the blockages that the precautionary principle generates in the daily life of schools. By requiring teachers to prove that there is no risk, […]
Damian Gsponer explains the pedagogy of gd-Schule
The playground project, which is part of the idea behind our school: developing a mountain village together with the students. There was a playground here. It was ancient. Most of […]
Team Academy, the hands-on Bachelor that disrupts education with Antoine Perruchoud
We met Antoine Perruchoud in the “House of Entrepreneurship” in Sierre, Switzerland. Here was born the Swiss version of Team Academy, a totally innovative Bachelor curriculum, offered as part of […]
Technology does not move schools, because schools do not see the necessity to move
A 2019 study by Education Weekshows that elementary and secondary school teachers are skeptical that technology can transform public schools or dramatically transform teaching and learning.* In Geneva, Switzerland, Ecole […]
Where to look to find the origin of the teachers misconfort ?
In Créteil, France, in October 2018, a student threatened his teacher with a dummy weapon. The act is obviously unacceptable and must be denounced as such. Reactions are very revealing. […]