HundrED Academy: Reviewing Education Innovation Across the World

What makes an idea genuinely innovative in education? Something that transforms learning in one community might already be familiar elsewhere, while a promising new approach may still need time and evidence to demonstrate its value. This is what makes HundrED's Global Collection particularly interesting. 

Each year, this inpiring organisation identifies 100 education innovations from around the world, examining the difference they are making in their own contexts and their potential to grow or be adapted elsewhere. The process brings together educational research, practical experience and perspectives from an international community of reviewers, recognising that meaningful innovation can take many forms across the educational ecosystem.

In 2026, Winsy Flores, joined the HundrED Academy to review shortlisted innovations for the 2027 Global Collection, contributing her experience in early childhood education, creative pedagogies and practitioner research alongside educators and experts from different countries. 

Rocket first encountered HundrED back in the LEAPS Summit organised by the Qatar Foundation in Doha in 2019. With human flourishing at the heart of the 2027 Collection, the experience connects closely with questions that continue to shape Rocket Productions own work: what makes education meaningful, how do we recognise its impact, and how might valuable ideas travel without losing sight of the people and places they were created for? Being part of the review process was also an opportunity to look beyond familiar approaches, challenging our own assumptions and learning from educators and other people reimagining what education can make possible.