Loek Schoenmakers (1961), Ph.D., currently works  as an educational specialist in the Netherlands, Aruba, Suriname, and Belgium. 30 years of experience within education as teacher, school leader, school advisor, trainer, coach and educational specialist. Based on his working experiences in various roles  and his research based on social constructionism (2011), he strongly believes that interconnectedness and the centering of the human element within educational change processes are crucial for sustainability.
Studied at Nottingham University (MA, 2001) Educational Change and School Improvement; promoted at Tilburg University and Taos Institute (Ph.D.,  2011) with Sustainable Educational Change is being in Relation.

Key note: Abstract

Using community for educational change: a 'We Adventure'

How different educational change processes become when we "Do Community"! Re humanizing educational change processes, where every voice is appreciated as important, seems to build strong and sustainable networks. Involving the whole school community for building better and hopeful educational futures leads to wards change processes we believe in. Relational trust is the product of this working together.

Over and over again I experience in my daily work as facilitor for educational change that this leads to an increase of unexpected ideas of many, which simply strengthens the change process as a whole. It is this which makes the change experience a 'we' adventure.