Stuart Macalpine Email & Phone Number

Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom

In 2023 - 2024 leading the project to align our guiding statements to more powerfully express our identity based on kindness and inclusion, and offering broad high quality programmes focused on global citizenship and the international baccalaureate.We seek to be a world class community of learners, with leading edge practices for creating a kind and inclusive experience of learning and thriving for our students. Many of our practices are inspired by our understanding of inherent human variability and the posthumanist appreciation of the immanent nature of learning, along with the important of place and space.

Billund, South Denmark, Denmark

Leading the team offering technical consultancy on learning through play for a portfolio of over 2 billion DKK annually. Working with an agile and broad portfolio.Partner node for:Tsinghua UniversityReggio EmiliaHarvard Project Zero - Pedagogy of PlayInternational School of BillundCanadian Playful Schools Network with Andy Hargreaves

Billund, South Denmark, Denmark

Founded the Playful Schools ConferenceCo-founded the OECD Schools+ Grant to create a triangule between policy, practice and practioners.Lead the project to design and distribute online learning courses on Learning Through Play with FutureLearn Developed grants to support teacher training in Rwanda in partnership with the Rwandan government for an intial pilot impacting 82,000 children.Designed and developed the partnership with George Lucas Foundation - Edutopia to produce short educational videos on learning through play and distribute to over 1.3 million teachers.Consultancy for a wide range of organisations on learning through play, including UNESCO, World Bank and other multilaterals.

Billund, South Denmark, Denmark

Supporting play and playful learning by working with schools and systems as part of LEGO Foundation team.

Starting up the first follower school for Green School Bali. Developing the Green School Diploma - a NEASC and MTC competency based diploma, focused on project based learning and nature based learning in Earth Care, People Care, Fair Share and Passion and Play.

Developing the Sky School curriculum from start up with Polly Akhurst and Mia Eskland from development, proof of concept to roll out. As a team developing our thinking and models.