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Five Acre Wood School, a foundation all age special school in Maidstone, Kent, UK, is proving that students with complex learning needs can access meaningful work through its ‘FAWrient Express’, a public-facing train-carriage café that operates as a hospitality training academy where students engage with real customers, real transactions, and real work challenges.
Ward Jackson Church of England Primary School, part of the Durham and Newcastle Learning Trust, is carving reimagined learning pathways for over 100 students facing poverty, trauma and complex learning needs through a rarely seen learning model that shifts how mainstream schooling responds to adversity.
REAL School Budapest, an independent, not-for-profit school for ages 5-14 in Budapest, Hungary, has integrated an ethos of regeneration into every aspect of school life, enabling its diverse international students to actively restore ecosystems within their community, with learnings that influence how they can contribute to environmental action in the wider world.
Abaarso School of Science and Technology, a non-profit secondary school in Abaarso, Maroodi Jeex, Somalia, is unlocking life-changing opportunities for young people from some of the most underserved communities in the Horn of Africa by combining rigorous academics, English immersion, and leadership development within its boarding environment.
Learnlife, an independent primary and secondary school in Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain, is challenging the deeply embedded assumption in modern education that young people learn best when their learning is tightly controlled, monitored and standardised.
Escola Kalipana, a public Indigenous school led by Baniwa teachers and families on their remote land in Brazil’s northwestern Amazon, is championing intercultural ecosystemic education by providing students with a learning experience deeply rooted in territory, environmental stewardship, ancestral knowledge and communal strength, shaping the curriculum around the Káali agricultural system.
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