Knowledge Building Community was formally initiated in Singapore in 2016 at the inaugural Knowledge Building Symposium that drew close to 150 educators across the island.  Since then, the community has been meeting every quarterly, connecting local KB teachers and research to explore new ideas in Knowledge Building. The community serves as the primary outreach, engagement and professional development platform for continual discourse and collaboration to advance KB research and practice. The goal is to sustain a collaborative workspace that nurtures teacher networks across diverse communities to bring about accessibility and relevance of KB practice at a larger scale.

In this KB Connect, the team shared the highlights of the most recent KBC network-Learning event that took place on 18th March (the theme, “KB for everyone”). Presentations includes current KB practices and technological development in Singapore. We hope to contribute to the continual discussion on “proto-to systemic knowledge building” that began at KBSI 2023, expounding on new infrastructures and practices needed for knowledge building to thrive in the current educational climate.

The event focused on sustaining a grounds-up collaborative workspace among researchers and teachers that nurtures teacher networks across diverse communities to bring about accessibility and relevance of KB practice at a larger scale. Teachers collaborate and build knowledge from each other within schools, through cross communities across local schools as well as establish learning through international connections and with researchers. It thus intends to highlight the promise of sustaining and scaling KB into the system without compromising what KB should look like in a classroom.