HUNDRED IN BRIEF

What is
HundrED?
We seek and share inspiring
innovations in education
AUGUST 2018

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Contents

HUNDRED IN SHORT  4

HUNDRED MANIFESTO  7

WHAT WE DO IN PR AC TICE  9

HundrED Global  10
HundrED Spotlights  12
HundrED Open  14
HundrED Community  16
HundrED Media  18
HundrED Research  20
HundrED Innovation Summit  22

NUMBER S  24

TESTIMONIAL S  25

OUR PARTNER S  28

OUR TE AM  29

CONTAC T INFORMATION  30

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 HundrED in Short

THE PROBLEM THE SOLUTION

The purpose of education is to help every child flourish in At HundrED we seek and share inspiring
life, no matter what happens. innovations in education.

When the world changes, the education landscape needs to change as well – and it
is changing. Unfortunately, the world is changing faster.
The good news is that the world of education is full of innovations. The bad news is,
practically no one knows about them.
Through a rigorous research process, HundrED selects 100 inspiring K12 education
innovations annually and packages them in a way that anyone, anywhere in the
world, can understand and implement them.
Our goal is to help improve education and foster a movement through encouraging
valuable, impactful & scalable innovations to spread, mindful of context, across the
world.

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 WHAT ARE OUR GOAL S FOR THE FUTURE?

Our goal is to be the world’s leading expert in education

innovations by 2020. We want to create a global
community and make the world of K12 education truly
inclusive.

WHAT HA S HAPPENED SO FAR?

• In 2015, we received and researched 750 Finnish applications and selected 100
of them. We followed them for one year and tested the concept in dozens of
workshops.

• HundrED began its global mission by interviewing 100 global education

thought leaders about their visions for the future of education.

• We researched over 1000 global innovations from 149 countries and shared
the first HundrED Global Innovations Collection in October 2017.

• Two HundrED Spotlights have been announced. One in the state of Victoria in
Australia with the help of Education Changemakers and a second on the theme
of Sustainability with support from MUSE School in California, USA.

• The first annual HundrED Innovation Summit (2017) was organized in Helsinki for
150 global education forerunners and innovators from 30+ countries.

• We released the HundrED Ambassadors Program in February 2018 and

the HundrED community is now booming, with more than 130 education
enthusiasts from over 45 countries.

• We have had events and workshops in over 20 countries.

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 We believe the best way to make this
happen is through valuable,
impactful and scalable innovations,
to support equity across the globe.

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HundrED Manifesto

The purpose of education is to help every child flourish, no matter what happens
in life. FOR INNOVATOR S

The foundation of basic education and traditional academic skills will always play an
important role in education. However, to thrive as global citizens in a fast-changing
world we need to develop a breadth of skills, establishing core values and attitudes
along the way.
We are keen advocates of a child-centered approach, championing personalized,
passion-based and authentic learning opportunities. We also believe the relationship
between an inspired educator and their student will remain essential.
Do you have an innovation the world needs to know about? It’s free to
share your work on HundrED.org
FOR IMPLEMENTER S
Looking for innovations to suit your needs? Discover inspiring,
pedagogically-sound innovations from around the world.

All of this should be reflected in the learning environments of the future, growing
inclusivity and diversity, prioritizing holistic wellbeing and opening up to the wider HUNDRED SELEC TIONS
community. To encourage motivation, assessment must be aligned with the core
purpose of helping children flourish. To move forward with the above, we require HundrED has selected 100 inspiring innovations that are changing the face
visionary leadership at every level, from all stakeholders in our education of K12 education today. Find out more by exploring our toolkits.
ecosystem, including youth.

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What we do in practice
HundrED Global is a collection of 100 inspiring innovations in K12 education that
are researched, interviewed and recognized by our research team as innovative,
impactful and scalable. The first selection (HundrED Global 2018) took place in
October 2017. The collection is refined annually to share a snapshot of some of the
most valuable, impactful and scalable innovations in the world of education.
HundrED Spotlights create partnerships between HundrED and local partner
organizations to focus on a location or theme to research, understand and share
10 innovations. At the end of each Spotlight, the process is packaged to support
spreading and insights on innovations, including a research report and inspirational
videos, photographs and interviews.
HundrED Open is our open resource platform where anyone can share their
innovative work in education for free and enter to be considered for the annual
HundrED Global collection.
HundrED’s Community comprises of our innovators, users and supporters.
They support our work in discovering inspiring K12 education innovations to be
researched by us and helping to spread our annual innovation collections. We have
a booming community of Ambassadors, as well as Academy members who provide
invaluable support in selecting innovations and growing our outreach.
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HundrED’s Media team create news items and articles, and maintain HundrED’s
social media and website to help our global audience discover innovations from
around the world. HundrED Media aims to inspire every stakeholder in education,
from teachers to parents to policy makers, to make a positive change where they
are in the world to help young people to flourish.
HundrED’s Research team discover and analyze inspirational innovations in
K12 education globally to select 100 that are innovative, impactful and scalable;
helping young people to flourish. HundrED research also develops new tools and
approaches to understanding innovation, as well as publishing original research,
such as the ‘Every Child to Flourish Report’, to understand stakeholders needs and
how to support change worldwide.
To celebrate the release of HundrED’s Global Innovation
Collection we annually organize a HundrED Innovation
Summit for the world’s most inspiring education
innovators, educators, youth and other engaged
stakeholders.
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 HundrED Global

HundrED’s Global collection is an annual list of 100 INNOVATION E X AMPLES

education innovations recognized as impactful,

innovative and scalable. Escuela Nueva
Bogotá, Colombia
HundrED’s in-house research team discovers and analyzes innovations using
a multifaceted approach through desk-based research, receiving applications, How can we give all children access
speaking with experts, and attending events. They then chronicle and collect to collaborative learning focused on
extensive information for comparison and feedback, including one-on-one in- the learner?
depth interviews and a bespoke scaling system.

Global Oneness
Project
We researched 1000 global innovations from 149 countries and shared the first California, USA
HundrED Global 2018 collection with innovations from 41 countries.
Want to use powerful visual stories
Our second global collection will be announced during our second Innovation & films to develop global citizenship?
Summit in November 2018. Our research team follows a 4 step process to identify
and recognize inspiring innovations in K12 education.

Speed School
Ethiopia

How can you give students a second

chance at education?

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 DISCOVER
The research team at HundrED discover innovations from around the world.
Innovations are sought from:
• HundrED Open
• HundrED Spotlights
• Desk-Based Research
• Events
• Recommendations from our Academy experts
• Recommendations from the HundrED community
• Previous HundrED 2017 innovations
The research team chronicles all innovations first documenting core factors
such as: theme, summary, country of origin, date established, scaled to,
population, age, scaling progress and evidence.
We actively search across countries and continents, as well as themes and critical
areas to ensure that we are thorough and comprehensive in our approach.
RE VIE W
All innovations are reviewed using the following criteria:
• Innovativeness: Valuable improvement within the context
• Impact: Established for at least a year with demonstrable evidence
• Scalability: Adaptable in new environments with commitment to scale
We use bespoke scales to compare and contrast innovations based on this
criteria, using up to five extra criterion based on each theme.
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ANALY ZE
If the innovation suitably satisfies the outlined criteria we will send a short
form to ensure all core information is correct and invite the innovation for an
in-depth research interview.
The purpose of the interview is:
1. To understand the innovation further in relation to our criteria
2. Understand your interest and commitment in being part of the
HundrED community
3. To conduct qualitative research into innovation in education for further
study
All interviews are conducted by video/audio call or in person, and are recorded
for research purposes.
Following the interview process, if the innovation has not done so already, they
are required to submit a HundrED Open toolkit to have the opportunity to be
selected. This must be completed by the application deadline.
SELEC TION
All innovations following the interview that fulfil criteria will be shared with our
HundrED Academy for selection.
Our HundrED Academy is made up of 100+ members inclusive of all stakeholders
in education, such as educators, young people and thought leaders.
Academy members provide feedback and vote for final selection using our
simple online tool. They predominantly vote in one to three areas of expertise
using our criteria guidelines, but in some cases may provide feedback on all or
several categories.
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 HundrED Spotlights

For each Spotlight, we select 10 of the brightest

education innovations, which then undergo a HundrED
Research process.

At HundrED, we’re committed to finding inspiring ideas and practices in education

and helping them to spread. All of our findings from the study are packaged in original
content including a research report, inspirational videos, photographs and interviews.

HundrED Spotlights are organized with partner organizations, who help to discover SPOTLIGHT 2018
innovations in their area of expertise. Once a Spotlight has been confirmed,
applications are then open for people to submit their innovations for consideration. Sustainability
All innovations undergo our thorough research process and must adhere to our
strict search criteria of being impactful, scalable and innovative.

Our goal is to have 10 spotlights on themes and regions around the world to support
the spread on local and global innovations.

AN E X AMPLE OF THEME SPOTLIGHT

The HundrED spotlight on Sustainability is being executed in partnership with

MUSE School, CA. The chosen projects will be announced in November 2018 at the
Sustainability Summit in Calabasas. All of the selected innovations will be featured
in the Sustainability in Education Report and will be promoted all over the world.

AN E X AMPLE OF REGION SPOTLIGHT

We’ve also partnered with Melbourne based Education Changemakers, Australia’s

leading education innovation social enterprise, along with the Atlassian Foundation
SPOTLIGHT 2018 to launch our debut Spotlight which will identify ten of the brightest Victorian
education innovations. The ten selected innovations will be announced at the
Victoria, Australia EduChange Festival in Melbourne on October 3, 2018, along with a national
workshop series that participants can attend to learn more about how to implement
the innovations in their schools.

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The Spotlights follow a six stage implementation process:
1.
Launch
The Spotlight is announced at a launch
event and will take place over the course
of six to ten months.
4.
Videos
All the innovations will be accompanied
by mini documentaries (1-3 minutes) to
show the innovations in practice and
the positive impact for students and
educators.
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Submission & Research
Anyone can submit their innovation to be
researched. The Spotlight Advisory Board
will help to make the final selection of ten
innovations together with HundrED and
the local partner helping to organize the
Spotlight.
5.
Report
Each Spotlight will be accompanied by
a research report, detailing the area
the Spotlight is focussed on and the
innovations which were trialled. All
research reports will be available on our
website.
3.
Innovation Packages
At the end of the Spotlight, the ten
innovations will be packaged and
shared on the HundrED website, so
that anyone, anywhere in the world
can learn about them, implement
them and contact the innovator.
6.
Summit
The results of the Spotlight and
the innovations involved will be
celebrated at a Summit event. All
innovations will be promoted locally
and globally after the event.
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 HundrED Open

Anyone can share their innovations on HundrED Open INNOVATION E X AMPLES

by creating their own easy-to-use toolkits.

Change The Script -
HundrED Open, as the name suggests, is the totally open part of our platform.
Dream a Dream
Anyone is welcome to submit their innovative idea, approach or product here and
all fully-completed applications will be automatically considered for our next annual Bengaluru, India
collection of 100 Inspiring Innovations.
Create a supportive community
We currently have approximately 1600 educational innovations from over 120 that helps young people thrive in
countries in our database. a rapidly changing world using a
creative life skills approach.

Carbon Farming
Schools
Indonesia

Carbon Farming Schools are one

of the IGAF Eco-projects aiming
to educate students about climate
change through carbon agroforest
activities.

Challenge 59
London, United Kingdom

Empowering children and their

teachers to actively engage with
health and wellbeing issues in their
communities, through dance and
film.

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 HundrED Community
We want to create a global community and make the
world of K12 education truly inclusive.
´At HundrED, we believe in the power of connections and collaboration. Our
innovator community showcases to the world that educational innovations can
scale. HundrED Ambassador communities comprise of all stakeholders in education
such as: teachers, school leaders, parents, policymakers and other education
enthusiasts.
WHO MAKES THE HUNDRED COMMUNIT Y ECOS YSTEM ?
1. Innovators: Education innovators around the world.
2. Implementers: Schools and educators who are willing to try innovations
selected by HundrED in their classrooms to give us and our innovators
valuable feedback.
3. Ambassadors: 130+ education and innovation enthusiasts from 47+
countries who voluntarily act as our collaborative community around the
world. They help us discover and share inspiring K12 education innovations
from their region and area of expertise.
4. Academy Members: 100+ stakeholders in education (experts, educators
& young people) who support feedback and selection of the HundrED
Global Collections annually.
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WHAT DO WE DO WITH OUR COMMUNIT Y ?
Every community member group has different needs and interests. For our
community members, we provide:
1. Personalized support through our Helpdesk.
2. Updates, know-how and resources through our monthly newsletters,
articles, social media channels and articles on our site.
3. Opportunities to meet and connect through our partner events,
Spotlights and our own annual event, the HundrED Innovation Summit, in
Helsinki.
4. Online interaction and engagement initiatives like WEBnesday
Facebook live webinars, monthly thematic talks and teacher testimonial
articles.
HOW DO WE CONNEC T, SUPPORT AND CELEBR ATE OUR COMMUNIT Y ?
Our community members have various platforms through which they connect and
collaborate.
1. HundrED Community on the website
2. HundrED Facebook Community Group
3. Our Facebook Page
4. Our Twitter Page
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 HundrED Media

HundrED Media celebrates the amazing work of E X AMPLES OF ARTICLES

education innovators.
‘Parents Really
Currently, we have more than 500 articles, interviews and news posts on our
Matter’ – How To
website and more than 100 videos on our Youtube Channel.
Engage Parents In
The HundrED media team produce new and original content weekly published on Education & Why You
our website and exterior publications, such as Scientific American and The Guardian, Should
where we highlight realistic and practical solutions to support positive change in
education.

Everything we share through our media is grounded in HundrED’s research, we only

share innovations and ideas that have been identified as innovative, impactful and
scalable. We strive to be a trusted and positive resource for every reader, where
they can learn about all the wonderful things happening in the world of education, Colombian
and where innovators who are dedicating themselves to this noble cause can be
Communities Find
celebrated.
Answers To Life’s Big
Our positive and solutions-focused approach is also present in our social media Questions With The
channels where we help inspirational and informative ideas to spread. In addition, Help Of SOLE
HundrED articles and videos have been published in Scientific American, The
Guardian, Fast Company and The Huffington post.

Want Kids To Be
Happy? Teach Them
How To Communicate

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 HundrED.org Youtube channel is full of interviews with education
professionals from around the world. Videos explore the many themes in
education from skills to teachers, learning environments to assessment.

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 HundrED Research
We conduct original, multi-stakeholder research
focusing on the continual improvement of education
around the world and finding practical solutions to
make this happen.
To make sure HundrED’s work is at the forefront of education we carry out our
own original research into the problems education faces today so we can better
understand how to tackle them.
All of our research papers, Spotlight insights and 100 Inspiring Innovations are
available for free on our website for anyone to learn from and be inspired by. We
believe that through this multi-stakeholder, collaborative and positive approach,
we can create a global education movement to improve education for every child.
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L ATEST REPORT
Every Child to Flourish
This research was conducted by HundrED to examine perceived needs of all
stakeholders in education globally, through a State of the Debate review and Global
Youth Survey. As young people are too often excluded from educational change, a
core part of this exploration gains key insights from youth internationally. Everyone
has a role to play in improving education, from students to systems leaders, to
academics and teachers.
It is time to engage all stakeholders, everywhere, to understand that we can utilize
deep insights and change from around the world in our continuously interconnecting
global community. This will allow us to move forward together, innovating for an
education that allows every child to flourish, no matter what happens in life.
Download the report for free at HundrED.org.
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 HundrED Innovation Summit
World’s most inspiring education innovators
gather in Helsinki.
The HundrED Innovation Summit is a 3-day celebration of education innovation,
with talks, workshops, and discussions. Each year the jam-packed program is
built around the innovators who will be attending and every innovator gets the
opportunity to get up on stage and share their work! Check back soon to find a
detailed program for this year’s event.
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The summit is free to attend for all invited and all refreshments will be provided,
including celebratory dinners for the innovators. However, please note that
HundrED is not able to cover the cost of travel or accommodation. If you need help
with organizing travel, including help with visas, please get in touch and we’ll be
happy to help!
The first annual HundrED Innovation Summit (2017) in Helsinki was organized for
150 leading global education innovators and forerunners from 30+ countries.
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 E X AMPLES OF OUR SPE AKER S IN 2017

SHUKL A BOSE OLLI-PEKK A HEINONEN X AVIER AR AG AY MARY GORDON

Founder of Parikrma Humanity General Director of the Finnish Founder of Reimagine Education Lab Founder & President if Roots of
Foundation that provides individual National Agency For Education, former and former General Director of the Empathy and Seeds of Empathy.
education for slumchildren. A TED Minister of Education. Jesuit Schools in Barcelona, a network
speaker, Woman of the year in India. of disruptive schools in Spain.

LENE JENSBY L ANGE CLE ARY VAUGHAN-LEE JAMIE STECK ART LINDA LIUK A S

Founder of the Global Schools Alliance, Executive Director of Global Oneness Head of School at THINK Global School, Founder of Hello Ruby, an initiative
an educational consultancy dedicated Project that offers free multicultural a high school that travels nine different that provides tools for kids, parents
to inspire and develop visionary stories for schools. countries over the course of three years. and educators to understand
learning futures. programming in a fun and creative way.

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 The HundrED Innovation Summit
is a 3-day celebration of education
innovation, with talks,
workshops, and discussions.

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 Numbers

HundrED 2018 collection with

100 innovations
from 41 countries

2 Spotlights
Sustainability & Victoria, Australia

1 600 innovations
from 149 countries researched

150 000 +
annual users engaged

~ 200 000
educators reached monthly through social media channels

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Testimonials
“We at Luminos were so honored to be
recognized by HundrED for our Speed School
program. Being a HundrED award recipient has
been a really helpful bit of recognition for the
work, and such a meaningful validation for all our
teachers who are working so hard to bring rich,
joyful learning to children who have been denied
the chance to go to school.”
– Caitlin Baron, Speed School, Ethiopia
“HundrED is the best partner you can have
to share your innovation. First, validates that
what you're doing is innovative, scalable & has
an impact. Then it gives you the opportunity
to share it to the world and connects you to
a network of schools, educators, students
& institutions and also allows you to keep
learning from other innovators that share their
innovation as part of HundrED. It really is an
honour."
– Lissette Rojas, Trix and Trax, Venezuela.
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“Teaching, applying and advocating
sustainability in schools is crucial to the future
of our children's lives as well as the future of
our planet. We are thrilled to partner with
HundrED who shares in our mission to support
and share education innovations that will
teach our youth how to be healthier and to
live in a more environmentally friendly world.”
– Suzy Amis Cameron, Co-Founder of MUSE School, USA
“HundrED Thematic Talks focus on pertinent
topics or issues in education, hosted by
innovators and experts in the field. They
offer a balanced perspective, opportunities to
interact with other educators and researchers,
and resources to learn more. A great way to
spend an hour!”
– Elizabeth Crawford, University Professor, USA
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 “The mission of the HundrED Ambassador “BRAC was honored to participate in the
program is a perfect fit for my personal inaugural HundrED Global Innovation Summit
mission to search the world for the latest last year. The rigorous application process
examples of education excellence and to share elevated an impressive community of
them with educators who are committed to education innovators from around the world.
continuously improving the practice of their This made the opportunity to exchange ideas
profession for the sake of our children.” and develop partnerships at the convening
that much more rewarding. As a development
– Denise Murai, HundrED Ambassador, Hawaii organization, the unique mix of attendees
provided a rich and diverse pool of resources
to draw inspiration from, and the Summit
“HundrED Global Innovator's Summit was offered a bridge to new audiences and global
some of the best professional development platform to share our work. We are eager to
I've ever attended as an educator. It was like return.”
the superbowl for educators and I got the
opportunity to rub shoulders with some of – Matt Kertman, Boat Schools, BRAC USA
the rockstars of learning. I got the chance to
learn from leaders in the field and network
with people at the forefront of education. I
have implemented many of the innovations
and lessons that I saw at the summit and I
know I am a better educator, my school is
more leading edge and my students are more
engaged than before I attended the summit. If
you only attend one educational event - make
it this one!”

– Ellen Heyting, An Australian Educational Researcher and

International High School teacher based in Helsinki

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 “Attending, and being an active part of
HundrEd 2017 in Helsinki was a fantastic
experience for more reasons than one. It
was a well organized and highly informative
event; we got to interact with professionals
from around the world and learn from each
other, understand the common problems
we faced and brainstorm. It was a great
platform to showcase ideas and solutions on
an international scale, which otherwise would
have gone unnoticed. The icing on the cake
was that it was held in Helsinki, Finland - a
truly memorable place to be in.”

– Hemant Somasekharan, 5 Areas of Development, Bhutan

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 Our partners

GLOBAL MAIN PARTNER S REGIONAL PARTNER S

OTHER PARTNER S

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Our team

HundrED.org has offices in Helsinki and London, with a team of 14 people. The team Saku Tuominen Pukhraj Ranjan Lasse Leponiemi
comprises of individuals passionate about education from a variety of backgrounds Founder & CEO Global Community Head of Operations
including media, start-up acceleration, ed-tech, research, educational leadership Manager
and more.

You can reach out via email at firstname@hundred.org

Keni Simola Jessica Spencer-Keyse Frederika Warren

Head of Partnerships Head of Global Research Researcher

Anni Rautiainen Josephine Lister Lauren Wilson

Assistant Researcher Editor Assistant Editor

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Finland

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UK

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