Free to schools · Lagos, Nigeria

Building a generation of systems thinkers

ConnectED runs systems thinking workshops that help secondary school students connect what they learn in class to the real problems they’ll spend their lives solving.

Bring ConnectED to your school See our impact

Piloted with 84 students
Measured 90 days on

One day, twenty schools

The General Workshop 2026

2 October 2026
Date: ~250
Students

“Each student showed causal thinking — identifying how one action could influence another, rather than viewing issues in isolation.”

Mr. Martins

Teacher, Blessed Assurance College

84
Students reached
Blessed Assurance College, November 2025
4
Interactive modules
One day, eight hours
50
Volunteers
Connectors who deliver the workshops
10
Learning activities
Hands-on, not lectured

The gap

Students are taught to pass exams,
not to understand systems

Dots
Facts learned to pass exams, one subject at a time.
Connections
Connecting ideas, and recognising the patterns between them.
Impact
Turning knowledge into action on the problems shaping their communities.

At ConnectED, we equip Nigerian secondary school students with systems thinking.

We’re building a generation that doesn’t just know more, but thinks better.

Where to start

Who are you here for?

Three audiences, three different questions. Pick the one that sounds like you.

For schools

Bring a free one-day workshop to your students. Here is what the day involves and what we need from you.

What a school gets

For funders & partners

See what one workshop changed, how we measured it, and what ₦20,000 does.

See the evidence

For students & parents

Find out what systems thinking is, and how to ask your school to host a workshop.

Ask your school

The workshop

The System Called School

Four modules and ten hands-on activities that take a hall of senior secondary students from “what is a system?” to mapping the ones they live inside.

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One day
Eight hours
Four modules
Ten activities
SS1–SS3
Free to schools

Understanding Systems

Students learn what systems are, recognise systems in everyday life, and map the school system by identifying its people, physical things, activities, rules/procedures and relationships.

Beyond the Grades

Students uncover the life skills embedded in academic subjects and work in groups to practise cross-disciplinary systems thinking using real-world problems and sustainability tracks (UN SDGs).

You as Part of the System

Students map systems in their own lives and explore leverage points for change, moving beyond symptoms towards causes, consequences and patterns to design systems-based solutions to problems.

Systems Thinking for Life

Students apply systems thinking to future planning and career exploration, and learn a practical systems-thinking toolkit for continued use.

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Students now apply systems thinking principles to understand challenges or issues within their domain. They even use real-life experiences to explain these concepts based on what they see and hear, turning their surroundings into a practical learning experience. Other schools need this approach because our students were able to demonstrate higher levels of critical and reflective thinking. You are doing a fantastic job. Keep it up!

Miss Blessing

Teacher, Blessed Assurance College · 2025 pilot