Our approach

Learning strategy is how
purpose becomes practice.

We connect learning goals with the experiences, evidence and everyday decisions that make them workable.

A school-wide question.

What do we want learners to become—and what needs to be true for that to happen? Learning strategy connects educational ambition with the experiences, support, evidence and conditions learners encounter.

Intention → Experience → Evidence → Action

Four questions keep strategy connected to what people actually do.

Intention

What matters most for your learners?

Experience

What conditions help learning to thrive?

Evidence

What is happening—and what does it tell us?

Action

What will we do, together, next?

Illustrative example

Helping learners become more independent.

The same approach can be applied to different goals. Here’s how it might look in practice.

  1. 1

    Define what independence looks like.

    Be clear about the knowledge, skills and habits you want to see.

  2. 2

    Create opportunities to make choices.

    Design learning experiences where learners can practise ownership.

  3. 3

    Look at work, reflection and observation.

    Gather different forms of evidence to understand what is changing.

  4. 4

    Adjust the support and review again.

    Use what you learn to refine the approach and continue the cycle.

01

Experience first

Keep learning authentic: curiosity, action, reflection and revision.

02

Evidence with restraint

Use signals in context to support professional judgement.

03

Implementation matters

Design around staff, time, systems and resources.

04

Build capacity

Leave the school better able to understand, decide and adapt.

Start with what you want learners to do differently.

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