About Us

Our mission is to offer the timeless wisdom of the dharma to children in creative, age-appropriate ways with high-quality materials and a curricular framework. What we offer is non-sectarian, open-source, and informed by educators, neuroscientists, practitioners and lineage holders from across the Buddhist world.

MWE Curriculum Models Advisory Services

Advisors

Bhikkhu Bodhi
Chagdud Khadro
Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche
Gaylon Ferguson, PhD
Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche
Shugen Roshi

Board of Directors

Anja Hartmann
Brandon A Lee
Kuhn Sucharitakul
Manwai Ng
Michelle Macioce
Pema Abrahams

Creating pathways for Buddhist wisdom
to enhance modern education.

Our Story

Middle Way Education (MWE) was founded with the support of Khyentse Foundation in 2017 by Noa Jones to offer the timeless wisdom of the dharma to children in creative, age-appropriate ways. The recent focus has been to invest in the research, development and distribution of an open-source curricular framework to support educators. Our model is all denominational and is informed and inspired by educators, neuroscientists, and practitioners and lineage holders from across the Buddhist world.

MWE has also been supporting Buddhist parents and educators with resources such as frameworks, lesson plans, articles, book reviews and other materials as well as a directory of Buddhist education programs worldwide.

After incorporating in 2017, MWE was instrumental in launching The Middle Way School (MWS), which opened in September 2018 and is now an independent pre-k to 6th grade Buddhist school for children in upstate New York. Read More. Working in early partnership, the work of MWS teachers has been foundational to the development of the MWE curricular framework.

MWE’s curricular framework development is an ongoing work-in-progress, and is guided by relying always on inquiry rather than dogma. Based on the guidance of lineage holders, our aim is to make it easy to create learning spaces infused with the wisdom of the Buddha with materials that can be adapted for various contexts and uses. It is our belief that educational materials are nothing without the teachers who breathe their lived experience into them. Our hope is that the framework comes alive through the creativity, practice and inspiration of educators and students who co-create those learning environments.