The Green Skills Teacher Handbook: A Community Version

Curricula & convenings · Education Reform Initiative · University of Northampton · Lancaster University · 2026

A living release system rather than a finished publication: eight modules authored by eight teachers branch across classrooms and communities, gather feedback, and build the evidence base for future editions.

The work's signature move is to transpose the release, fork, and collaborative-development logic of open software into an educational resource and policy intervention. Publication is not an object completed before use, but an open protocol that turns use itself into research input. Teachers, NGOs, activists, and other communities can fork the source for their own settings while feedback returns to a shared evidence base for the next release. Distribution becomes the beginning of the pedagogy rather than the end of the editorial process.

A living publication system

A design system that turns the handbook from a one-off output into an open learning infrastructure shaped by use and feedback.

A handbook that does not close at publication

The first release is framed not as a finished authority but as a source node opening into different contexts of use. The design's real life begins after distribution.

Making versioning part of the pedagogy

Use becomes a research phase rather than the publication's unobserved afterlife. Observation and feedback form the product infrastructure for the next release.

One source, plural contexts

Local variations do not enclose the shared source; they extend it through new languages and practices. Difference and common evidence-making remain within one architecture.

Editing collective authorship into a shared voice

Eight distinct modules become a coherent learning object without losing their authors' specificity, while the companion comic carries the same thinking into another narrative channel.