Nakayoshi Gakuen's "Learning That Connects with the World" 2026 Academic Year Edition Launches Today

The Specified Non-Profit Activity Corporation Nakayoshi Gakuen Project (Representative: Yuichi Nakamura / Matsudo City, Chiba Prefecture) officially launched the 2026 academic year edition of its inquiry-based, peace, and inclusive education program, "World Learning" (CoRe Loop), today, April 1, 2026.

This program is a "reciprocal learning" mechanism that connects questions, materials, and ideas born in Japanese classrooms with educational and support sites overseas, and then returns the implementation results from those sites back to the classrooms. For the 2026 academic year edition, we have strengthened our operational system utilizing Google Classroom, establishing a framework to grasp and share progress status for each participating school, consultations regarding lesson creation, and on-site implementation in overseas locations in a more real-time manner.

This makes it easier for teachers struggling with how to conduct comprehensive learning hours and inquiry-based learning. As an educational model that allows for the design and practice of lessons while enjoying them with students, we will fully launch nationwide expansion in the new academic year.

Dedicated Homepage for the "Learning that Connects with the World" Project: https://nakayoshigakuen.org/coreloop

Nakayoshi Gakuen's Inquiry Learning Model: Transforming "Distant Worlds" into "Personal Matters"

The characteristic of "Learning that Connects with the World" (CoRe Loop) is its ability to transform "distant worlds"—such as conflict, poverty, refugees, and educational disparities—that are only encountered through the news, into "questions connected to oneself" within the classroom.

Students do not just learn about global issues; they formulate their own hypotheses for problems without clear answers, give them form, and send them out into the world, starting from their own strengths, what is familiar to them, and their school learning. By having their achievements actually utilized in overseas educational and support sites, their learning transcends mere knowledge acquisition and transforms into experiences involving action and tangible results.

This style has received high praise in many school settings to date. For students, it leads to the successful experience of "their learning being useful to someone," and for teachers, it serves as a practical model for designing inquiry-based learning while drawing out student initiative.

Advancing Inquiry While Reducing Teacher Burden Through Google Classroom Operations

In the 2026 academic year edition, we have established a system that better supports the practices of participating schools, centered on operations utilizing Google Classroom.

Each school can share their lesson progress, material creation processes, student ideas, and practical consultation matters online. Furthermore, how each school's materials and initiatives are implemented locally will be gradually fed back through Nakayoshi Gakuen's overseas activities.

This enables teachers to proceed with lesson creation while receiving supportive guidance, rather than having to handle everything from scratch. It is designed to be easily adopted even by schools anxious about comprehensive learning hours or inquiry activities, and is expected to be utilized in practice as a mechanism that balances the reduction of schoolwork burden with the improvement of educational quality.

Educational Services Backed by Achievements Cultivated Through Nationwide Expansion in the 2025 Academic Year

Nakayoshi Gakuen's "Learning that Connects with the World" was selected for the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's Inquiry Work Reform Support Subsidy Project in the 2025 academic year and has been implemented in schools nationwide. To date, it has expanded to over 50 schools nationwide, with more than 10,000 students, children, and faculty participating, and materials and ideas born in Japanese classrooms have been actually utilized in overseas educational support and peace education settings.

In practices across various regions, starting from lectures, students consider what they can do, developing it into material creation and expressive activities, and a flow has emerged where their achievements are implemented in overseas classes and support activities. Through such accumulation, this program has gained evaluation as an educational model with a cycle of "knowing," "thinking," "acting," "reaching," and "returning," rather than a one-off lecture.

The 2026 academic year edition has been redesigned as a service model that can be stably and continuously utilized by more schools, based on this experience and track record.

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"Action-Oriented Learning" Connecting to Comprehensive Selection, Essay Writing, and Expressive Activities

"Learning that Connects with the World" is not merely a program to deepen international understanding. A key feature is that it is a form of learning that involves forming one's own thoughts on social issues, translating them into words, works, or plans, and then connecting them to actual actions, making it easily applicable to comprehensive selection entrance exams, essay contests, inquiry presentations, and presentation activities.

Cultivating a perspective that connects with others and society while deepening one's own experiences and questions forms the very foundation of the global leadership required for the future era. Through this program, Nakayoshi Gakuen aims to foster a sense of success in each child, making them feel "I can do it too" and "my learning has meaning," leading to future career paths and life choices.

2026 Academic Year: From the Classroom to the World. A New Year of Learning Begins.

The launch of the 2026 academic year edition of "Learning that Connects with the World" (CoRe Loop) is a new step for Japanese school settings to evolve inquiry-based learning into something more practical and more connected to society.

Questions in the classroom lead to hope for someone in the world.

A student's small step becomes a catalyst to change the reality in a distant country.

And as that experience returns to the classroom, learning transforms from "passive" to "participatory," and from "knowledge" to "practice."

In the 2026 academic year as well, Nakayoshi Gakuen will continue to expand "education where learning connects with the world" together with schools nationwide.

Message from Director Rie Nakamura

Last academic year, 50 schools nationwide participated in "Learning that Connects with the World." Working alongside many teachers, I strongly reaffirmed the various concerns and challenges present in school settings.

"I don't know how to proceed with inquiry learning."
"The learning we are currently doing is not easily connected to the world outside of school."
"There is no place to practice what we have learned."
"Peace education has become routine. I want peace, but I don't know the specific approach."

While addressing the voices of such teachers, I feel that this project is indeed an initiative that can respond to those concerns.

The quality of Japanese education is inherently very high. However, there are by no means many opportunities for teachers themselves or students themselves to realize that value on a daily basis.

That is precisely why I strongly wish to deliver the realization to both children and teachers that "what we are learning connects to helping people in need around the world," "we can learn together with someone far away," and "we can bring smiles to others through our learning."

At the year-end feedback lecture, the moment children realize, "Our learning can become someone's hope," the atmosphere in the classroom changes. The expressions of teachers and students brighten up, and they genuinely feel, "It was good that we did this." Every time I see such sights, I am convinced of the power this learning holds.

And I have witnessed many times moments where teachers, facing education daily with numerous internal conflicts and worries, are moved to tears. Each time, I have shed tears alongside them. I am always taught that education is not merely about imparting knowledge, but possesses the power to move people's hearts, connect hope, and gradually change society.

This year too, I look forward to nurturing initiatives in each school where children's learning connects with the world, allowing us to share genuine joy together with the teachers. We will continue to spread heartfelt practices nationwide this year, aiming for achievements that could even bring tears of joy to teachers in the principal's office.

Message from Representative Yuichi Nakamura

"We believe that inquiry-based learning, in its truest sense, is learning where children formulate their own questions, confront the world with their own abilities, and tackle problems without definitive answers.

However, in practice, teachers often struggle with how to conduct comprehensive learning or inquiry amidst their busy schedules, and frequently cannot fully realize the potential they possess.

That is precisely why Nakayoshi Gakuen's "Learning that Connects with the World" has evolved into a system for creating lessons that students can passionately engage with, while simultaneously lightening the burden on teachers.

Through Google Classroom, connecting the practices, consultations, progress of schools nationwide, and even on-site implementation overseas, learning in the classroom becomes more dynamic and more real.

Events in distant countries, which were previously only seen in the news, become a reality that can be changed by one's own actions.

That experience gives children the firm confidence that "my learning reaches the world."

We believe that this successful experience is the essential strength for children living in the coming era and the origin from which future global leaders are nurtured.

In the 2026 academic year as well, we will continue to spread learning that changes the world from the classroom, together with teachers and students nationwide."

Dedicated Homepage for the "Learning that Connects with the World" Project: https://nakayoshigakuen.org/coreloop

Organization Overview

Organization Name: Specified Non-Profit Activity Corporation Nakayoshi Gakuen Project
Business Description: Planning and operation of inquiry-based, peace, and inclusive education programs centered on "Learning that Connects with the World" (CoRe Loop) / Support for education, food, and mental care both domestically and internationally, etc.

Contact Information for Inquiries Regarding This Matter

Specified Non-Profit Activity Corporation Nakayoshi Gakuen Project (Secretariat)
E-mail: peace.office@nakayoshigakuen.org