Compass Education

Compass Education is a social enterprise based in Hoover, United States working on education, environment & climate.

Compass Education is a non-profit organisation that supports educators in teaching sustainability and systems thinking. It is built by educators for educators and describes itself as a mission-focused, educator-driven non-profit and agile social enterprise. Its core offering is the Sustainability Compass, a framework that organises sustainability around Nature, Economy, Society and Wellbeing, together with a set of systems thinking tools such as causal loop diagrams, connection circles, behavior-over-time graphs, the iceberg model and the Ladder of Inference. The organisation provides free and paid online and in-person courses, certification for Compass Facilitators, Coaches and Educators, customised professional development for school communities, lesson plans, and sustainable action planning resources. It works through an international network of facilitators and reports working with more than 1,600 schools and organisations. Its stated goal is to share its tools with one million educators by 2030, in alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It is registered as a not-for-profit in the United States and as an international organisation.