Safeguarding and transforming schools.
Schools should be protected as spaces where students encounter challenges and possibilities not available to them elsewhere. If schools did not exist we would need to invent them. We should ensure that schools bring diverse groups of people together to learn from and with one another.
Building collective capacity should guide the redesign of schools. School architectures, spaces, times/timetables, and student groupings should be designed to build the capacities of individuals to work together. Cultures of collaboration should pervade the administration and management of schools, as well as relations among schools.
Digital technologies should aim to support – and not replace – schools. We should leverage digital tools to enhance student creativity and communication. When AI and digital algorithms are brought into schools we must ensure they do not simply reproduce existing stereotypes and systems of exclusion.
Schools should model the futures we aspire to by ensuring human rights and becoming exemplars of sustainability and carbon neutrality. Students should be trusted and tasked with leading the way in greening the education sector. We should ensure that all education policies sustain and advance human rights.
