Category : Better Ways

The Phoenix Education Trust is a charity and a leading voice in the promotion of democratic education in UK Schools and Colleges. The UN Convention

Teacher Steven Delpome was another to be inspired by Sugata Mitra’s TED Talk. He tried it out in the classroom, got fantastic results but was

Philosophy for Children is a tool to support children in learning through enquiry and the exploration of ideas, it helps students learn through discussion and takes

The Centre for Personalised Education – Personalised Education Now seeks to promote educational ‘alternatives for everybody, all of the time’ through a diverse, funded Personalised

Alternatives in Education aims to raise awareness about different ways of educating and to support people to get involved in transforming their schools or getting

Other Education publishes a twice- yearly online journal on the topic of alternative education. All work on the journal is done on a voluntary basis

An American site on ‘hackschooling’, the concept coined by 13-year-old TED speaker Logan LaPlante to explain how home education works Read more: Why hackschooling? (Hackschooling.net)

A Guardian piece on “unconditional positive regard”, at a school for children who have suffered abuse, neglect or poverty and cannot study in the mainstream.

A primary school found scrapping marking to be a positive move making children more engaged and giving teachers more time with the children Watch the

Teacher Helen Moyer implemented Sugata Mitra’s Self-Organised Learning Environment (SOLE) in Williston School, a primary school on the Isle of Man. Schools on the Isle