Our friends at the Compassionate Education Foundation have sadly decided the time is right to close their charity. They have offered Schools of Tomorrow some of their resources and asked us to continue their mission. Compassion – for self, for others, for the planet –  is implicit in the values and principles of our work. […]

Despite the difficulties of strike days, students from Falinge Park High School, Brimsham Green School, Fairfield High School, CALS College and Ir Lely Lyceum in the Netherlands, and Collegi Montserrat, Barcelona did us and themselves proud as they came together for the launch of Ambassadors of Tomorrow, with support from the Comino Foundation, in Birmingham […]

As part of our Building Better Community of Practice, St Augustine’s Academy Dunstable worked on imaginative ways to improve children’s language development. The result was a year-long whole-school programme Vocabulary Velociraptors. They’ve now made a short film about the work and it’s well worth a watch! You can view it here.

We are delighted to announce a new partnership with the Comino Foundation, who have agreed to support a pilot programme for Ambassadors of Tomorrow, launching in mid-2023, initially working with a small group of secondary schools before hopefully building out to wider involvement and the inclusion of primary schools within the programme in 2024. We are very […]

Following a superb workshop with Bill Lucas last November, we are inviting schools with an interest in taking an action research approach to ‘re-thinking assessment’ to join our community of practice.The intention is to support each other in an individual  two year action research, development and change programme, tailored by you to your context and priorities, across […]

We are thrilled to have completed a new partnership agreement with the fantastic team at Edge Future Learning. We are looking forward to working together on a range of initiatives around their agenda for school transformation. This includes our new Ambassador of Tomorrow programme and a joint national conference on March 17 in Birmingham on […]

In Maggie Farrar’s latest blog she explores the leadership of change and the opportunity of disruption with two SoTo Fellowship heads, Darren Randle, Head of Hollingworth Academy, Rochdale, and Caroline Skingsley, Head of Goldington Green Primary Academy, Bedford. You can read it here

2020 has been a tough year. The pandemic has ushered in personal and professional challenges for us all. The education sector, in particular, has felt the disruption of lockdown. Indeed, Edge’s own research has highlighted the effect of Covid-19 on young people in education and the youth labour market. But there have been positive changes, […]

In September 2020 we will be launching our ‘Building Back Better’ programme, led by Brian Lightman, John West-Burnham and Malcolm Groves, with support from Richard Gerver and Pam Mundy. It is a two year action research programme for schools who believe the experience of coronavirus and lockdown offers a unique space and opportunity for a […]

Last week student leaders from three SoTo Fellowship schools visited CALS College in the Netherlands to take part in an International Student Leadership Conference. Our students stayed with host families and enjoyed lessons in the bilingual school as well as soaking up the Dutch culture and local landmarks. On the final day we all attended […]