Open schooling is about gathering schools and other stakeholders around problems facing the (local) community. How exactly societal problems should enter the school is subject of an ongoing academic debate in educational research and a matter of concern for many teachers as well as organisations that support educators.
In this blogpost we briefly summarise the argument made in the paper and describe how LORET (locally relevant teaching), one of the tools used in the SEAS project, can help to tackle the didactical challenges involved in addressing real-world sustainability problems in the classroom.