Catalysing School-Driven Holistic Learning Innovations to Achieve SDG4 by 2030

There is a crisis in learning – a crisis of equity, inclusion, quality and relevance. Young people across the world must be supported to develop the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values they need to respond to these crises with creativity, empathy and collaborative leadership. Teachers across the world must be supported to respond to the needs of their learners and communities with agility, expertise and leadership.

Schools2030’s Three-Step Model is an approach for teacher professional development that focuses on contextual relevance and teacher leadership through design, innovation and evidence-building. By developing and incubating education practices and innovations at the sites of learning and teaching, we believe that those practices will be more relevant, more effective, more inclusive and more sustainable. Schools2030 also believes that these school-level innovations can lead to system-level change. Across our programme countries, we are co-designing new, low-cost innovations, practices and tools that can be adopted and adapted to drive system-wide change.

Across the Schools2030 movement and network, from school to national to global-level, we are building an evidence-base about ‘what works’ to improve quality learning outcomes from the bottom-up, rather than the top-down. In this way, we will contribute towards the realisation of UN Sustainable Development Goal 4 – ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and providing lifelong learning opportunities for all.