# Accelerating Systems Change
In the latest PISA results, England was the second-highest-performing country in the world outside East Asia after Estonia. England has also pulled further ahead of the other UK nations. Where other countries are seeing a decline in learning, England’s children are learning as much and even more than they were 10 years ago.
What can other countries learn from England’s success? What are the factors that have contributed? What does the story of the past two decades teach us about collective leadership in transforming education systems? In this two-hour deep dive workshop, we’ll engage with some of England’s most influential education leaders in government, schools, civil society, and advocacy to find out what we all want to know.
Prior to the workshop, we will send out pre-reading so you can familiarise yourself with England’s story. We will then spend the first 60 mins of the call in dialogue with English education leaders. We will then use the final 60 mins of the session for shared sense-making and to synthesize our takeaways as a group.
The workshop will be deliver in English with Spanish interpretation.
Date and time:
December 8th, 1pm-3pm UTC
Speakers:
Sam Freedman, Senior fellow at the Institute for Government, senior adviser to Ark Schools, and formerly special advisor to UK Education Minister Michael Gove. Sam writes about policy and politics for numerous outlets including the Financial Times, Sunday Times, Guardian and New Statesman. With his father, he runs 'Comment is Freed', Britain's most popular politics Substack.
Ed Vainker, Managing Director, The Reach Foundation. Ed was the Founding Headteacher of Reach Academy Feltham and developed a Cradle to Career model around the school in Feltham. Now, the Reach Foundation supports more than 70 clusters of schools around England to take a Cradle to Career approach.
