HPL Unpacked

As well as an underpinning philosophy, High Performance Learning provides a practical framework that school leaders can use to transform learning – actively involving students and their parents in the learning journey and presenting schooling as a quest for cognitive success. The framework is not another school improvement process, or a step-by-step programme, but instead identifies the component parts needed to make high performance learning a reality, allowing each unique institution to exploit its own context and build on its own practice as it creates its own interpretation of the framework.

Learners and pedagogy are at the heart of the framework. The ACPs and VAAs provide a clear structure for student development within each school’s individual vision, context and curriculum. Meanwhile, the seven supportive pillars help schools create a climate for success. The approach reinforces the professionalism of classroom teachers, while addressing what can be done at the whole-school level to optimise learning opportunities, individual support and personal motivation. 

• Meta-thinking
• Linking
• Analysing
• Creating
• Realising

ACP Translations

Examples from HPL Schools