Effective Education

Education can be uniquely effective in creating positive and lasting change in the world.

Effective education is based on the following principles:

• Creating a relationship of trust;
• Connecting learning with the child’s experience; and
• Acknowledging the ways in which children learn and develop.

These principles can be observed wherever good education is at work.  They can give us a common basis beyond methodologies and pedagogies to work together for educational change.

We recognize and welcome the fact that specific applications will differ in different settings, cultures or countries, but by uniting around these principles and making them the core of our work for educational change, we can achieve the outcomes that we are all looking for.