Our Story &
Our Services
School of Thought was born in Philadelphia, the birthplace of a lot of great ideas. This includes the socially conscious eyewear brand, Warby Parker, whose 100 word origin story framework was inspiration for ours:
Some of the most important work we do is rooted in relationships—but we rarely treat connection as part of strategy, learning, or business growth. School of Thought was born from a simple insight: the future of learning in schools, work, and life is rooted in people, not projects. We bring expertise in research and measurement design, community building, and creating authentic learning experiences. Through visual representations, we map connections, reveal patterns, and make learning tangible. Our initiatives—rooted in retention, connection, and humans—anchor practice in people, not projects, sparking sustainable, lasting change.
Our Services
At School of Thought, we help schools, workplaces, and organizations co-design and sense-make solutions with a People-Based Learning lens:
Connection & Capacity Building: Individual and group guidance to strengthen relational intelligence, reflective capacity, and generative fluency.
Consultation & Strategy: Evidence-informed approaches to transform culture, learning, and collaboration across teams and sectors.
Experience & Program Design: Designing learning experiences, workshops, and initiatives that foster connection, equity, and shared problem-solving.
Research Translation & Sense-Making: Turning complex evidence into actionable practices that people can use to drive meaningful change.
Community & Cohort Engagement: Curating cross-school, cross-sector learning communities to share insights, celebrate progress, and co-create solutions.
To get started, schedule a free 30 minute call to learn more about how we could work together.
Privileges Must Be Shared: Let's Stop Tokenizing the Wisdom of Practice
Increasingly, organizations and schools are investing resources in positions focused on research, evaluation, and learning with the expectation of better integrating research into their work, as well as drawing on organization experience to contribute to fields of research. These individuals frequently serve as conduits between two separate worlds, the world of practice and the world of research. Based on our own experience working as research partners within organizations, we recognize the need for new models and paradigms that can offer a pathway for these individuals and organizations to conceptualize this necessary integration.
