The design of schooling has traditionally been built around the twin pillars of the academic aspect (the subject departments or faculties) and the pastoral aspect (usually the year group).

Because this arrangement tended to cause a split between student learning and their welfare, many schools are redesigning the pastoral aspect to become an explicit support for learning. Often this involves vertical tutoring, which creates a further erosion of rigid age cohorts.

Resources

• Deep support 2 publication

Institutional reconfigurations

• From single to multiple institutions
• Merging of phases
• Flexible and permeable age cohorts
• School day, term and year
• Flexible time schedules
• Design of buildings and learning spaces
• Competence-based, trans-disciplinary curriculum
• Academic and pastoral division
• Smaller units within schools
• School and workplace

Role reconfigurations

Leadership reconfigurations