From research to practice · From school to life
CogniPraxis grew from a simple observation: research already knows a great deal about how children learn and grow. What is missing is the design that brings it into every lesson.
◆ Starting in Cambridge 2026 · Online & Athens from 2027
FROM RESEARCH TO PRACTICE
OUR VISION
Between academic knowledge and personal growth, between school and life. We want every lesson to cultivate both, for the child of today and the person of tomorrow.
OUR MISSION
We turn current science on development and learning into coherent educational design: a Framework, an original curriculum, lesson plans and evidence of progress that work in a real classroom.
OUR HORIZON · FOUR OUTCOMES, NOT ONE
Each observation became a design decision.
Science does not always reach the classroom.
We turn what research shows into lesson plans an educator can teach tomorrow.
A child’s knowledge and growth are usually cultivated separately.
Every lesson is designed twice: once for what the child will learn and once for how they will grow.
Capabilities grow best within substantial content, not in a vacuum.
Mathematics, Language & Literature and Science are the core. From there, the Bridge opens a human question.
What is not explicitly designed rarely happens in the classroom.
Every target has a declared route of cultivation, a place in the six lesson stages and a way for progress to show.
A journey in four stages, joined by one question: what does a child need to thrive at school and in life?
I began as a Physics teacher, preparing students for exams and university, and spent almost two decades in Greek and international private education. Many students succeeded, yet had not developed all they would need at university, at work and in life.
My PhD at the University of Cambridge focused on executive functions: the capabilities a child uses to organise their thinking, control their attention and adapt. There I saw how much research already knows about cultivating knowledge and growth together.
As a Research Fellow at the UCL Institute of Education, I work on large longitudinal studies that follow generations of children as they grow up. Growth is not linear; it takes time, consistency and sound evidence.
CogniPraxis connects what I learned in the classroom with what I learned in research: every lesson is designed twice, once for what the child will learn and once for how they will grow. For school and life.
“Research knows. Schools want. Society needs. We build the bridge.”
Dr Konstantinos Tsigaridis · Founder
Researchers who know the classroom and educators who read the research. Every design passes through both before it reaches children.
RESEARCH COLLABORATORS
Mental Toughness
PhD in Educational Psychology, Baylor University · Associate Professor, University of Louisville
His research on mental toughness underpins the Mental Toughness dimension of the CogniPraxis Framework. Together with Dr Tsigaridis, he trains the Academy’s educators.
Cognitive Science · Cross-Cultural Education
PhD in Psychology & Education, University of Cambridge · Research Fellow, Nanyang Technological University
Brings the perspective of cognitive science and of comparing education systems, so that the design holds across cultural contexts and in both tracks, Greek and English.
THE ACADEMY’S EDUCATORS
One teaches, the other observes and records evidence. We choose them for three things:
[The team will be introduced here when enrolment opens.]
PRACTITIONER NETWORK
Practising educators trial and review the lesson plans before they reach children. The network covers:
Every part of the programme goes through five steps, and goes through them again when the evidence shows something can be better.
“What do we know?”
“How does it become a lesson?”
“Does it work with real children?”
“What needs to change?”
“How does it stay the same in every classroom?”
Research guides the design; we do not use it as a seal of approval. We do not promise what cannot be evidenced.
Every lesson is designed twice. Capabilities are cultivated within the task, through the Bridge and through the way we work.
A good idea is not enough. Everything we design is tested with real children, real time and real constraints.
We measure to help every child grow, not to rank them. In the Bridge we assess how a child thinks, never what they believe.
THE FOUNDATION
The scientific and design foundation of Knowledge + Growth: what we develop, how we develop it and how progress shows. The Framework →
The 6–16 programme, in small groups. Cambridge 2026 · Athens & Online from 2027.
Discover the Academy →FOR SCHOOLSThe same programme inside the school, with a licence, authorised educators and shared standards.
See Partner Schools →OPEN SPACEArticles and videos from research to practice, for parents, educators and anyone interested in the ideas.
Explore Insights →For a question, an idea or a collaboration. A person replies, not an automated system.
