Reimagining Values at the American School of Warsaw

The Challenge

After more than six decades of history and growth, the American School of Warsaw (ASW) reached a turning point. Years of rapid change had left the Board and leadership with a clear sense that something vital had drifted: the school’s founding values no longer felt visible or meaningful to the community they served.

Before tackling strategy or planning yet more change, the school knew it needed to rebuild its foundations. They needed shared language. A clear sense of identity. A way to bring the community together around what truly mattered.

The Approach

NoTosh was brought in to support a whole-school process of rediscovery.

We worked alongside a Design Team of students, staff, parents, school lead Read More

1: Introduction and rationale for exploring purpose

"I can't believe we're still talking about this."

That was the exclamation from one educator in February 2022, at an early interview session to explore the four capacities of the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence. She had a point.

And it’s a point we’ve heard at least implicitly at every step of this journey, as our team listened to the voices of around 150 educators, youth learning specialists and over 600 young people over the first five months of 2022. We also included the voices of another 130 or so educators whose ‘curriculum stories’, told during the height of the pandemic, showed how curriculum purpose and the four capacities perform under pressure. We adopted a trademark empathetic approach, reflecting a Read More