Raya Bidshahri

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Founder / CEO, School of Humanity; Senior Project Manager, SciFest Dubai; Founder, Awecademy; BBC’s “100 Most Influential Women” (2019);

(5) Big Ideas from the Podcast: 

• make “more time to make more mistakes”
• they offer no classes; they only offer interdisciplinary challenges (and workshops) 
• School of Humanity invites learners to ‘act’ upon great challenges; they are not pressured to ‘solve’ those challenges
• designing Orientation Week for the entire family, not just the learner: “Support from and for the entire family is critical in a truly online school.”
• everyone (learner, facilitator, family, partner) arrives with her/his own ‘why’