We have spent recent years visiting and working with some of the most effective schools, colleges and models around the world. From High Tech High in San Diego to the P-TECH school in Brooklyn, South Eastern Regional College in Northern Ireland to School 21 in London and XP School in Doncaster, our team has worked closely with a wide range of professionals to understand their approach and practice. You can find out more about their work on our EFL Leaders & Partners page and in our Practice Library.
Although they may use different language, the similarities between their highly effective approaches was striking. We distilled them into the three key principles that sit at the heart of Edge Future Learning – Project Based Learning, Real World Learning and Community Connected Learning.
It is essential that this work is underpinned by the strongest possible evidence base. That is why we asked leading researchers Dr Lynne Rogers and Dr Susan McGrath from UCL Institute of Education to draw together that evidence base from international academic literature and to present it here to provide a concrete foundation for our work.
We went on to pilot these approaches with schools and colleges across the North East of England in partnership with Ford Next Generation Learning and the North East Local Enterprise Partnership. In this collection of blogs you can read about the amazing work of school and college leaders, classroom teachers, our partners at Ford NGL and at the Wood Foundation who are building on this work with schools in Aberdeenshire.
