From Bees to Feedback Loops: Building Systems Literacy from Childhood to Leadership

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Dr. Linda Booth Sweeney and educator Lindsay Moretti share a developmental pathway from early systems literacy to adult systems leadership, drawing on evidence from classrooms, social entrepreneurship, and real world change efforts.

From Bees to Feedback Loops: Building Systems Literacy from Childhood to Leadership

What if the habits of mind children develop noticing interconnections, patterns, and feedback loops are the same ones adults need to address climate change, fix broken systems, and lead through complexity?

This interactive seminar makes that case and shows what it looks like in practice.

Dr. Linda Booth Sweeney and educator Lindsay Moretti share a developmental pathway from early systems literacy to adult systems leadership, drawing on evidence from classrooms, social entrepreneurship, and real world change efforts. Their central argument: systems thinking isn’t something we teach adults after the fact. It’s something we can and should cultivate from the earliest grades.

Linda and Lindsay will draw on a 10 week, project based learning unit for grades 2 and 3, co-developed around Linda’s forthcoming children’s book DO BEES PEE?, to show how systems smart habits of mind can be…