Future-Focused School Dashboard
Explore sixteen interactive tools for examining possible futures, redesigning learning, testing decisions, diagnosing current practice and turning future-focused ideas into practical school design.
School of 2035 Scenario Explorer
Choose assumptions about AI, work, assessment, wellbeing, demographics, technology and society, then explore one plausible future for schooling.
Future Tensions
Position yourself between competing educational priorities. There are no correct answers: the value is in making your assumptions visible.
Curriculum Capability Mapper
Map where capabilities are visible, explicitly practised and assessed across curriculum areas, then identify gaps, concentration and opportunities for greater coherence.
Design a Future Classroom
Choose the learning you want to enable, work within a fictional $100,000 budget and build a classroom concept around pedagogy rather than gadgets.
What Should Students Leave School With?
Build a graduate profile by choosing the knowledge, capabilities, dispositions and values you most want young people to carry beyond school.
Signals of Change Explorer
Scan emerging shifts across technology, society, work, wellbeing and the environment, then map which signals could matter most for schooling.
Assessment Redesign Studio
Put an existing assessment task on the workbench, diagnose six design dimensions, then see a visual before → after redesign pathway.
Professional Learning Health Check
Diagnose whether professional learning is coherent, relevant and translating into practice, then see where the system is strongest and weakest.
Professional Learning Strategy Builder
Build a visual annual professional learning model from your priorities, staff capability, available time and preferred learning modes.
Student Agency Audit
Use an agency ladder across seven dimensions to reveal where students have genuine influence and where they are mainly being offered choice.
School Day Redesign Simulator
Redistribute a 30-hour school week and watch the opportunity cost of every timetable decision change in real time.
What Should We Stop Doing?
Enter current practices, score their value and burden, then sort them into Keep, Simplify, Challenge or Stop.
AI Decision Compass
Test an AI use case against learning value, agency, privacy, equity, human judgement and workload before deciding how to proceed.
School of 2035 Builder
Spend a fictional $1 million across seven priorities and watch a future school campus take shape around your investment decisions.
Leadership Question Generator
Choose an issue, audience and challenge level to generate five increasingly demanding questions for a leadership conversation.
Community Futures Conversation Generator
Choose an audience, topic and available time to generate a facilitated futures conversation with provocations, activities and questions.
School of 2035 Scenario Explorer
Choose one assumption for each force. The result is a possible future to think with, not a forecast.
Scenario fingerprint
Which forces dominate this possible future?Curriculum
Teachers
Assessment
The school day
Viewed through your Future Tensions profile
Future Tensions
Every future-facing decision involves trade-offs. Place yourself on each continuum, then see the pattern that emerges.
Move each slider towards the position that best reflects where you would want a school to sit. The midpoint is a legitimate position: some tensions need to remain deliberately unresolved.
Your tension map
The pattern across all eight trade-offsYour stance inside the School of 2035 scenario
Curriculum Capability Mapper
Create a quick visual map of where capabilities are introduced, practised and evidenced across the curriculum. The aim is to surface patterns, not produce a compliance score.
1. Choose the scope
This changes the label on your map; the curriculum areas remain editable as a broad school snapshot.
2. Choose up to six capabilities
Select the capabilities you most want to see consistently developed across learning. Six are preselected as a starting point.
Tap each square to cycle through four levels: Not visible → Introduced → Explicitly practised → Assessed / evidenced. Use your best judgement; the map is intended to provoke discussion rather than imply false precision.
Capability profile
Viewed through your School of 2035 scenario
Viewed through your Future Tensions profile
Design a Future Classroom
Start with the learning you want to make possible. Then spend a fictional $100,000 budget on design choices that support those pedagogical priorities.
Select features that support the learning priorities you chose. You do not need to spend the full budget.
What this environment is designed to enable
Concept plan
A schematic view of the learning zones you selectedDesign choices
Watch-outs and trade-offs
Connected to your other Future-Focused School Dashboard tools
What Should Students Leave School With?
Build a graduate profile by deciding what matters most when a young person leaves school. The trade-off is deliberate: everything cannot be a top priority.
Implications for curriculum
Implications for assessment
Signals of Change Explorer
Choose the signals you believe deserve attention, then rate how strongly each could affect schooling. The output is a horizon map, not a prediction.
What this could mean for schools
Questions worth taking into leadership
Assessment Redesign Studio
Put an assessment task on the workbench, diagnose its design, then build a stronger version around what students actually need to demonstrate.
What this studio does
You will rate the task across authenticity, process visibility, AI vulnerability, application, student agency and disciplinary thinking. The tool then shows the design pressure points and a practical redesign pathway.
Design pressure points
Professional Learning Health Check
Diagnose the system around professional learning rather than judging individual sessions.
Six dimensions
Current strengthStrongest foundations
Where to focus next
Professional Learning Strategy Builder
Build an annual professional learning architecture rather than a calendar of disconnected events.
1 · Choose up to three school priorities
2 · Current staff capability
3 · Preferred learning modes · choose up to four
Recommended learning mix
Student Agency Audit
Move beyond whether students have choices and examine where they genuinely influence the design, direction and evaluation of learning.
Agency ladder by dimension
Where students influence learning
Where choice could become agency
School Day Redesign Simulator
A timetable is a statement about what a school values. Reallocate a 30-hour week and watch every decision create an opportunity cost.
Conventional week → your week
HoursWhat Should We Stop Doing?
School improvement usually adds work. This tool asks a different question: which existing practices still justify the time they consume?
AI Decision Compass
Start with an educational use case, then test whether AI strengthens learning without quietly weakening agency, privacy, equity or human judgement.
Conditions to protect
What to test first
School of 2035 Builder
You have $1 million. Build a fictional future school by deciding where the money goes — and what your choices say about your educational priorities.
Investment profile
$1 millionLeadership Question Generator
Good leadership conversations are often shaped more by the quality of the question than the speed of the answer.
Choose the issue
Community Futures Conversation Generator
Build a facilitated futures conversation for leaders, staff, students or parents without turning it into a presentation about what the future will be.