Turn your educational vision into a clear model
Download the Learning Community Canvas: a practical tool to design, refine and communicate your educational project.
📚 Free Canvas, guidebook + workshop recording included
What is the Learning Community Canvas?
The Learning Community Canvas is a design tool inspired by the Business Model Canvas, but created for the world of education. It is organized into 16 key areas, grouped into four zones:
Educational North
vision, community, and educational proposal.
Learning Experience
Methodology, role of learners, role of educators, assessment and evidence.
Community and Organization
Relationships and governance, rhythms, inclusion, families, and educational team.
Sustainability and Ecosystem
Resources, partnerships, revenue, expenses, and financial sustainability.
Creating a learning community means designing a living system
Many educational projects begin with an inspiring vision, but soon difficult questions appear:
- How do we turn our values into concrete practices?
- How do we reach agreements within the founding team? And with families?
- How do we avoid contradictions between vision, practice, and sustainability?
The Learning Community Canvas helps you see the whole model in one map, connect ideas, show the value and reach agreements to create resilient learning communities that can evolve over time.
You will receive a printable A3 poster and a step-by-step guidebook. You can use it with post-its, with your team, in a workshop, or as a reflection tool to review your educational model.
“We are using the Canvas for school outreach because it organizes and clarifies ideas while also providing a holistic view of the school itself”. – Narda
“This is generous of you both to share this structure to communicate and gain clarity of the focus of any learning community. It might also start conversations and questions for new community members. It would help them decide if the offering is a good fit”. – Annette
Created by Evolving Education
The Learning Community Canvas was created by David Caballero and Luz Olid at Evolving Education. We research, create, and share educational practices for an education based on change-maiking agency, stronger communities, wellbeing, and lifelong learning.
Our work is inspired by 200+ education pioneers from 20+ countries. We have researched alternative schools, learning communities, democratic models, self-directed approaches, socio-constructivist projects, and educational innovation experiences across four continents.
We created this canvas to help founders and educational teams design schools with more clarity, coherence, and purpose. It is inspired by the Business Model Canvas and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.
