About Open SchoolingWhat is Open Schooling?

Learning together in the real world

Open Schooling is an approach in which purposeful collaborations are built between schools and their wider communities. Families, experts and other stakeholders collaborate with teachers and students to address relevant local challenges, contribute to community development, and promote an active global citizenship attitude.

Open Schooling offers students the opportunity to learn together in the real world, and widens their horizons to learn from people other than their teachers.

Forms of Open Schooling

As teacher or school leader, you almost certainly already do some form of Open Schooling: when you involve outside partners, or bring your students outside the school walls.

Open Schooling can be tailored to deliver specific curriculum in a new way, to improve student engagement or to initiate and deepen a school’s relationships with its community. Whatever form it takes, at the heart of Open Schooling is a mindset and culture that is outward facing and collaborative.