Innovative Approaches to Education at Four Schools in England

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This customer evidence paper considers four schools in England–one primary (elementary) and three secondary–where innovative approaches to teaching and learning on a large scale are continually being implemented. Each school is able to meet or surpass the expectations of the national government while creating richer experiences for local people, and each makes extensive use of technologies for particular purposes. The paper is based on an analysis of thirty-six existing video interviews with heads, teachers, governors, students and local authority representatives undertaken for Microsoft, and the author’s follow up telephone conversations with one representative of each school. It identifies common themes and their implications and then goes on to show in some detail how each school is addressing them.

The common themes identified in this paper are:

• Strong drivers for change include ‘push’ and ‘pull’ factors: poor results in terms of national measures together with a courageous leadership vision of new ways of schooling.

• A sense of developing communities of people who learn in...

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