Site tour

Intro

Welcome to a tour of Vision Mapper, a free online resource to support long-term planning in education. Vision Mapper provides a wide range of inspirational material and team activities to support long-term planning and decision making. Including...

Ideas - There are many sources of inspiration to get you thinking outside the box

  • The 6 Future scenarios representing potential futures. They will help you understand what you need to consider preparing for in the future.
  • Be prepared provides some of the major changes and trends that might not be on your horizon yet
  • The school redesign gallery will help you think about creative and innovative use of space.
  • Our PowerPoint meeting opener is an effective kick-start to meetings.
  • Read the case studies where people have been working hard to plan for the longer term
  • Futurelab’s well-known space workshop cards are finally available online
  • You can print them out for free OR purchase sets of workshop cards

Activities - We have provided a wide range of great activities that you can use with your team :

  • Explore the activities section and see which ones suit what you're after
  • From creating your educational vision - a step by step guide to working with a wide range of people to get there
  • To ‘Back casting’ - where you and your team work around a ‘future day’ to help understand how to get your action planning started
  • To using the 6 scenarios to test your existing plans to see how well they would fare in different situations
  • There are many others all useful for moving your initiative forwards

There are three different resource packs. One for school redesign projects (e.g. BSF), one for curriculum redesign plans and one for community services initiatives. Many people find these a good place to start.

  • In each pack you’ll find inspiration to get you and your team thinking beyond normal day-to-day constraints
  • Support for you to develop an long-term vision
  • Plus consultation and action planning activities to get you and your team up and running with your new initiative

We hope you enjoy Vision Mapper. Please let us know how you use it to help us keep improving it!