What (& Where) Are the World’s Most Transformational Schools?
OK, people, let’s get specific: out of all the outstanding and forward-thinking schools in the world, which ones are truly the most transformational when it comes to imagining a new way to think about teaching and learning in the 21st century?
There are a lot of great and inspiring schools out there, so I want to repeat: I’m in search of the mosttransformational schools — by which I mean schools that are demonstrating, by policy and practice, 10 or more of the 22 core categories from QED Foundation’s Transformational Change Model.
What I find so useful about the QED model (and you may need to scroll down on their home page to see it) is the way it identifies the central pillars of a high-quality education, and then identifies what that pillar looks like in a traditional, transitional, and transformational setting. In a traditional school, for example, we tend to assume that the student bears the primary responsibility for learning; in a transitional environment, that responsibility
