Bring clarity to practice. Make practice small enough to repeat. Repeated practice becomes habit. Shared habits shape culture.
Visual tools for teaching, leadership and whole-school learning.
Ten interconnected decks that help teachers, leaders and boards make thinking visible, surface hidden assumptions, and turn important ideas into practices people can actually use and repeat.
Collective Thinking by Design
Too many schools struggle with fragmentation
Good people, good ideas, all working hard — but often from different corners of the picture. Initiatives pile on initiatives. Paperwork grows. PowerPoints multiply.
How do we connect our vision with what actually happens every day?
Concise
Each card distils complex research and practice into its essence. Just enough information, in just the right form, to spark action.
Tactile
Physical cards invite interaction. They can be picked up, laid out, compared, and sorted — turning abstract ideas into visible choices.
Visual
Frameworks and icons support dual coding — pairing words with images to deepen understanding and recall.
See the Learning Deck in action
Short overviews of the Learning Deck and the broader Synnovate Suite of tools for learning, leadership, and governance.
The Learning Deck
The Learning Deck in Schools
Ten decks. One coherent system.
Each deck is modular - it can stand alone, focused on a specific challenge. But together, they form a coherent system that helps schools address culture and systems.
Learning Deck
For teachers & leaders
Praxis Deck
For teachers
Lead Deck
For leaders
Frame Deck
For leaders & HR
Team Deck
For teams
Plans Deck
For leaders
Dynamics Deck
For leaders & HR
Board Deck
For boards & governance
Strategic Coherence Deck
For boards & leaders
Think Deck
Available through workshops
From complexity to coherence, one card at a time.
Small practices build shared habits.
Shared habits shape culture.
Every deck is a specialised application of the same six operating functions. Learning Deck directs classroom attention. Lead Deck directs leadership attention. Board Deck directs governance attention. Each one is a different lens on the same question: where is attention flowing, and is that where you want it?
The six principles behind every deck
Schools don't run on information.
They run on attention.
Every conversation, lesson, meeting and strategic decision is shaped by where attention flows. The six principles explain how to design that flow.
Explore Designing What MattersThe decks have been prompting me to think about areas of growth and perspectives I may not have considered before, and it's honestly become a really fun and meaningful habit.
What people are saying
Different colleagues were naturally drawn to specific card sets, and this sparked really deep conversations between people sitting next to each other without any guidance from me at all.
Irina B.
The cards bring a clarity to complex conversations that no PowerPoint ever could.
School Leader
A beautifully designed, research-informed toolkit that turns vision into practice.
Board Chair
Schools don't change only because people work harder. They change when people think together differently.
Ready to bring clarity to your school?
Whether you're a teacher, leader, or board member — there's a deck designed for the challenges you face every day.