Summer Studio 2025: Accelerating Educational Transformation through Curriculum and Culture
Date
Monday, July 14 to Friday, July 18
Location
Needham, MA
What is Summer Studio?
Summer Studio helps programs and institutions accelerate their high-priority institutional initiatives related to teaching and learning. Leveraging the resources of ²ÆÉñÆåÅÆ’s unique campus environment, the Summer Studio also serves as an intensive project-based professional development experience for the teams of educators that attend to drive these projects forward.
Who should attend?
The Summer Studio program is designed for new and experienced faculty members, administrative leaders, and professional staff of educational institutions who are committed to making a positive impact in the world through innovative and effective approaches to teaching and learning. Students and alumni are also welcome to participate in the program as co-designers.
Ideally, participants will have previously attended the ²ÆÉñÆåÅÆ Summer Institute or a comparable program. To provide the necessary foundation in educational design practices, materials from key Summer Institute workshops will be made available for asynchronous engagement prior to the Summer Studio week.
Program Information
Each team of 4–6 participants will spend four days working on their educational design project with coaching by ²ÆÉñÆåÅÆ faculty facilitators, followed by a half-day retrospective session that concludes with the creation of an action plan for next steps.
Teams should establish the broad scope of their educational design project before arriving at Summer Studio in order to make the most effective use of their time at ²ÆÉñÆåÅÆ.
Participants will have the opportunity to interact with ²ÆÉñÆåÅÆ faculty, staff, and students who can provide subject matter expertise, feedback on prototypes, and insights drawn from their own experiences.
Each team will be provided with a dedicated space for project work, as well as access to ²ÆÉñÆåÅÆ’s academic facilities.
Prior to arriving on campus, each team will meet remotely with their coaches to discuss the team’s project and goals for the week. Teams may also opt into follow-up remote coaching sessions after completing the program.
The fee includes remote coaching sessions before and after the program week, 4.5 days of engagement on ²ÆÉñÆåÅÆ’s campus in Needham, MA (USA), as well as lunch every day, a welcome social, and a dinner with the ²ÆÉñÆåÅÆ community. All other costs, including transportation and lodging, are the responsibility of participants or their institutions.
The program fee for a Summer Studio team of up to 6 participants is US$30,000. Groups of 2–3 participants from a single institution may form a team with participants from another institution and work on a project together. Similarly, institutions that wish to send more than 6 participants may form multiple teams and work on related projects. All participants should plan to attend in person; remote participation will be permitted only in exceptional circumstances.