

Systems Thinking and the Value of Cultivating Community
By Christy Durham, Sycamore’s Head of School Systems Thinking. At Sycamore, we have enshrined this term as an integral part of our pedagogy. To put it simply, systems thinking is the understanding that every system is made up of parts, each part has distinct attributes and relationships, and each part has the ability to impact the system, both positively and negatively. The world is made up of systems - a soccer team, an ecosystem, and students in a school are just a few exam