What’s Next? 21 Ideas for 21st Century Learning

Launch July 10th 2008

Charles Leadbeater

Learning from innovative schools and authorities

Searching for a new story for learning in schools, but also in

families and communities

It’s all about relationships for learning

Learning with and by not to and from

See learning as a set of relationships rather than as a system, stages,

strategies

Relationships that build:

CareRecognitionMotivation

Participation

Provide those relationships at school, through family and home, in

community and work

The yolk: school reform

Order and calm: hard & soft power

Social and emotional conditions

Personalised learning = learning with and by:

Place,Timing, Pace, Space

More integrated, across phaseBig schools that feel smallSoftware leads hardware

Wider measures of successNew leadership teams

The white: family and neighbourhood learning

Parents more involved in schoolSupporting learning at home Minimising impact of family

disruption

The plate: environment, culture and economy

Aspiration and ambitionCultural and economic changeSocial contracts around schools

School draws in community resourcesSchool resources available for community

Disperse the school in the communityLeading cultural change

Challenges of leadership .. and policy

1. Personal budgets for families at risk

2. Emotional resilience for all in Y7

3. Break up big schools: max school size

4. National peer learner programme

5. Scrap the summer holidays

5. Capabilities curriculum for Y7-9

6. The Personal Challenge

7. The Community Based Teacher

8. Individual budgets and programmes for potential Neets

9.Schools as productive enterprises

10.School of Everything for Schools

Learning with and by not to and for