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Lasse Leponiemi

Chairman, The HundrED Foundation
first.last@hundred.org

VIP OS (Value Integration & Progress ecosystem)

Personalising who the child becomes, not just what they learn.

We solve the paradox where high performance often costs wellbeing. By integrating mentorship, goal‑setting and AI as a teacher’s co‑pilot, our VIP school model grows student maturity and self‑regulation, so academic achievement, emotional wellbeing and teacher sustainability rise together. It integrates personalized, level‑based learning, transparent tracking and narrative‑driven cycles.

Overview

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Updated December 2025
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We hope to see education shift from meritocracy to autoprogression—where learning is measured not by comparison but by inner development. Through VIP, responsibility, self-regulation, and value integration become the core learning outcomes, so schools achieve high performance without sacrificing wellbeing or humanity.

About the innovation

Why did you create this innovation?

For decades, global education has been trapped inside the same paradigm: meritocracy, standardisation, and comparison. Systems keep “fixing” surface components — grading, curriculum, testing — but never dare to redesign the underlying logic of how human development is grown. We created this innovation because we saw a deeper truth: academic success and wellbeing collapse when a child’s internal maturity is not developed first.

VIP/Scoolsy introduces a new organising principle for education: inner development as the core engine of learning. Instead of personalising content, we personalise the human being — their decision-making, emotional regulation, responsibility, and value integration. This shifts education from an external performance system to an autoprogression paradigm, where each learner grows against their own previous self, not against a norm.

The current meritocratic model rewards speed, compliance, and memorisation; VIP/Scoolsy rewards self-regulation, integrity, and sustained effort — the real predictors of lifelong capability. By turning psychological maturity into a measurable, teachable architecture, we make visible what traditional systems ignore: the inner operating system that enables all learning to flourish.

We built this innovation to offer a future where schools are not factories of achievement, but ecosystems that grow human beings capable of shaping society — from the inside out.

What does your innovation look like in practice?

In practice, this innovation functions as a fully integrated learning ecosystem that has been built, tested, and refined over nine years inside a real Lithuanian school laboratory (Forvardas). Every learner follows a personalised weekly progress loop that combines curriculum, mentoring, and behavioural development into one coherent flow. Students set individual goals with their mentor, work through adaptive micro-units in Scoolsy, collect evidence of mastery, and track their growth through the Autoprogression Index — a multidimensional maturity metric replacing static grades.

Teachers work with level-based groups instead of age-based classes, reducing workload while increasing precision. Learning happens during school hours, supported by structured routines that strengthen self-regulation. The VIP “responsibility cycle” guides learners through four developmental phases (Safety → Agency → Responsibility → Identity), allowing the system to adapt expectations and tasks to the student’s psychological readiness.

The school becomes a unified ecosystem: teachers, mentors, parents, and students use the same maturity map and progress indicators. This turns abstract concepts like responsibility, effort, and self-regulation into concrete, trackable behaviours. The result is a learning environment where academic achievement and emotional wellbeing rise together, because the internal architecture that drives both is developed intentionally every day.

How has it been spreading?

VIP OS began spreading through real-world demand rather than top-down promotion. As educators observed the model in practice, schools requested training, consultations, and early access to its methodologies. To test scalability, we commercialised one layer of the ecosystem—the personalised, competency-based learning engine—into a digital tool, Scoolsy. In just two years, 14 schools adopted licences, effectively piloting a key fragment of the system in diverse classroom environments.

This partial implementation generated strong traction: teachers reported increased student agency, clearer structure, and reduced classroom pressure; students responded to autonomy and visible progress; school leaders saw improvements in discipline, engagement, and responsibility. Word-of-mouth networks grew quickly, creating a community of advocates and partner schools.

The spreading has therefore been both organic (educators visiting, sharing, requesting help) and evidence-driven (commercial results, measurable impact). This groundswell confirmed a clear need for the full VIP OS and laid the foundation for structured national expansion.

How have you modified or added to your innovation?

To scale responsibly, we evolved the innovation in deliberate stages. For nine years, the full VIP ecosystem—mentoring, behavioural maturity, responsibility tracking, and competency-based learning—operated inside one school as a living laboratory, allowing us to refine the architecture with real students and teachers before expanding outward.

As a bridge to wider adoption, we translated selected elements into Scoolsy, an individualized learning platform with diagnostics, micro-progressions, points, and teacher-guided planning. Even this partial fragment reshaped classroom practice: teachers learned they could support 20 different learning paths at once, and students built autonomy through structured guidance. Rising wellbeing and engagement generated a strong teacher-led demand for deeper transformation.

These insights informed our next evolution. In 2025 we paused expansion, closed all contracts, and selected 5–6 state schools as pilot sites for implementing the full VIP OS with fidelity and equity. The latest modification is technological: we are preparing AI-supported scaling—not to replace teachers, but to make responsibility growth and learner agency visible, analysable, and coachable at scale. Through this, the model has evolved from a single-school innovation into an ethically grounded architecture for inner development and societal change.

If I want to try it, what should I do?

If you want to try the innovation, you can start small. The model is modular and works even when introduced step-by-step. Most schools begin with one discipline using our personalised, competency-based approach through Scoolsy.lt. Students progress through clear micro-skills at their own pace, while teachers shift from content delivery to mentoring and guidance.

You can also join our partner-school network. We support teams piloting either the full VIP maturity architecture or selected components. This includes training, mentoring, implementation guidance, and regular reflection cycles.

Schools ready for deeper transformation can pilot the VIP system: weekly mentor check-ins, personalised goals, responsibility tracking, and our behavioural-academic maturity indicators. This creates a unified progress map visible to students, teachers, and parents.

Finally, you may visit Forvardas—our living laboratory where the model was built over nine years. Seeing it in practice helps schools understand how structure, autonomy, and wellbeing come together in one ecosystem.

Whether you are a teacher, school leader, or system-level partner, we will help you begin from your current context and grow at a sustainable pace.

Implementation steps

Step 1: Understand the Core Principles
Familiarize yourself with the foundational elements:
– Level-based learning (progression by readiness, not age);
– Competency matrices for micro-progression;
– Interdisciplinary cycles for integrated learning;
– Transparent point-based assessment;
– Autoprogression Index (API) to track academic, behavioural, and self-regulation growth.
Step 2: Form a Core Implementation Team
Assemble a small team of committed teachers and a school lead who will pilot the model. Assign clear roles for mentoring routines, competency progression, interdisciplinary planning, and API-based tracking to ensure coherence and shared ownership.
Step 3: Select Pilot Areas
Choose one or two subjects to start with (e.g., Mathematics and English) and one pilot domain where maturation-based learning is easiest to observe—such as a single class or mentoring cycle. Start by implementing VIP routines: weekly goal-setting, the Autoprogression Index (API) to track learning and responsibility growth, and structured reflection. This builds the culture of agency before expanding to subjects or whole-school use.
Step 4: Set Up Functional Learning Levels
Define functional learning levels (e.g., Basic, Core, Advanced) based on competency matrices rather than age. Use brief diagnostics and API indicators to place students in the level that matches their readiness. Adjust grouping flexibly—students can move levels as their mastery and responsibility grow.
Step 5: Establish the VIP Monitoring System
Assign each student a mentor and launch the VIP routines: weekly goal-setting, progress tracking, and reflective conversations. Use the Autoprogression Index (API) to monitor growth in learning pace, responsibility, and self-regulation, giving teachers and students a shared, transparent view of development.
Step 6: Design a Supportive Culture and Agreements
Create a coherent culture that reinforces responsibility, agency, and emotional maturity. Establish a small set of clear, co-created behavioural agreements based on respect, self-governance, and restoration rather than punishment. Introduce simple restorative practices that help students integrate tensions and repair relationships. Ensure that classroom routines, transitions, and feedback cycles reflect VIP values so the maturity architecture is lived daily, not added as an extra program.
Step 7: Train the Teachers
Provide structured onboarding for two groups:
Teachers learn how to run level-based classes, support differentiated pacing, design micro-progressions, and use Scoolsy/VIP tools to track academic growth.
Mentors (class teachers) are trained to interpret the Autoprogression Index (API), lead weekly 1:1 or small-group mentoring sessions, set goals with students, analyse responsibility-growth patterns, and guide reflective conversations.
Begin with weekly, then continue with monthly consultations.
Step 8: Evaluate and Adjust
Collect data on academic progress, responsibility growth, and classroom culture, using it to refine routines and supports. Share regular, clear updates with parents and offer optional guidance sessions so they can understand the model and become constructive partners in their child’s learning journey.

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