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What is IRIS?

Iris is an independent provider of design thinking support, resources, and training to address the increasing needs for a STEM+ provision

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Our mission

Design thinking is a skill that addresses key skills for the future while also providing the ideal creative platform for problem solving, reasoning, and critical thinking. We provide a means for all schools to access these skills whatever existing resources or curriculum are available.

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Our vision

We want all schools to be able to offer a modern creative curriculum where students have access to the key skills and competencies needed to nurture the innovators and creators of the future. 

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Sonya Maechler

A visionary founder of the Tandem group of schools and the driving force behind the IRIS project. Sonya has a passion for learning, languages and design thinking which she brings to the schools she has established and now to the IRIS initiative.

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Paul Woodward

I have been teaching Design and Technology for more than 30 years in the UK and overseas, and am delighted to be part of this initiative. A big, bold step! It's exciting that the IRIS Education Association wants to provide key skills for the future workforce through a design thinking approach in schools

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