Pip Cleaves
Systems & Practice Designer, and the founder of Pattern & Thread.
Background
I design the systems and practice of learning, for schools, organisations, and curious humans designing their own. My work spans curriculum architecture, the internal systems schools run on, school data systems and peer coaching, all designed to work for the people in them.
I've worked inside the NSW Department of Education's information technology team, consulted with state education systems and independent schools across Australia, and worked with technology companies globally. Alongside Pattern & Thread I work at Canva as a Global Content Specialist, contributing to curriculum delivery across the Learn platform for a global audience and designing data visualisation systems that support how educational resources are planned and produced.
I'm based in Bendigo, Victoria, and work across Australia and online.
Where the work has been
- Canva. Global Content Specialist: curriculum delivery across the Learn platform, and data visualisation systems that support the process and production of educational resources.
- Global Village Learning. Chief Learning Architect for nearly three years: learning architecture, curriculum frameworks, compliance, and the learning design for the Castlemaine Gaol heritage precinct.
- NSW Department of Education, Information Technology. State-level curriculum design, major IT projects and technology leadership training across the system.
- State systems and independent schools. Consulting with state education systems and independent schools around Australia on learning design, technology and the systems behind them.
- Microsoft and Adobe. Learning consultant to their global education teams, designing and delivering professional learning.
- ICT Peer Coaching. One of two master trainers in Australia, having trained more than seventy facilitators across state education departments.
Solo, by design
Pattern & Thread is a solo practice. You work with me directly, from the first conversation onwards. I keep the list short, so the work gets my full attention.
The aim is work that keeps going when I'm not in the room: practice your people own, and systems that keep running.
Bring a question
Write with what's happening and what you've already tried. That's enough to start a conversation.