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

Schools2030 is a ten-year participatory learning improvement programme based in 1,000 government schools across ten countries.

Our goal is to equip young people with the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values they need to becoming contributing and thriving members of their societies. We do this through a focus on teacher agency: recognising and amplifying teachers as leaders, innovators and active agents in education reform.

Using the principles of human-centred design and focusing on the key transition years of ages 5, 10 and 15 years old, Schools2030 supports teachers and students to design and implement education micro-innovations. These low-cost and scaleable innovations are informing and transforming education systems to improve holistic learning outcomes for the most marginalised learners worldwide.

Rarely are school leaders, teachers and students invited to listen, reflect, and self-discover the wisdom that lies among them about ‘what works’ to improve quality learning for all. Even rarer are instances where invitation, dialogue and self-discovery lead to long-term community actions and external investments, guided by data that the school collects, processes, and uses to achieve holistic learning outcomes for all.

Schools2030 seeks to dramatically change the status quo by equipping frontline teachers and school leaders with the knowledge, skills, and platforms to better design, measure and showcase new solutions to achieve SDG4 by 2030.

As a result, Schools2030 offers a global pulse about how to operationalise SDG4 in classroom practice from the bottom-up and amplify the often under-represented insights, creativity, and resilience of the heroic frontline teachers and school stakeholders striving to achieve quality learning for all.