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, to Ford Next Generation Learning. You can find out more about these models in our Deeper Learning International Network.
We have also had the privilege of building a fantastic network of schools, colleges and organisations here in the UK, our Deeper Learning UK Network and have supported innovative projects through our Grant Funds.
Although they may use different language, the similarities between all of these highly effective approaches was striking. Many of them use interdisciplinary projects, support young people to develop skills as well as knowledge and make use of rich employer engagement to bring learning to life.
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.
We commissioned Dr Lynne Rogers to lead a piece of research investigating lessons learned from our work in the North East to inform the future work of Deeper Learning UK. Our own research team at Edge also undertook a piece of research to understand more about the work of the Wood Foundation in Scotland in this space. You can download both reports below.
