About iNet

Established in 2004, International Networking for Educational Transformation (iNet) is a dynamic initiative from the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT) – the leading body for advancing secondary school excellence and diversity in England.

iNet’s mission is to create powerful and innovative networks of schools that have achieved or have committed themselves to achieving systematic, significant and sustained change that ensures outstanding outcomes for all students in all settings.

It focuses on school transformation and aims to facilitate innovation by sharing knowledge and offering a vision of how education can move forward based on the practice of schools in all settings.

iNet has grown rapidly into a rich, diverse network across many cultures. It has brought together a wide variety of education networks into a single unifying force working towards transforming education around the world.

iNet already links over 3000 schools in over 20 countries. These include established networks in England, Australia, Chile, Georgia USA, Wales and Western Cape South Africa – as well as emerging networks in China, Holland and New Zealand. iNet is working to create new networks in North America, Mauritius, Germany, Sweden and the United Arab Emirates.

Joining iNet

iNet is open to primary, secondary and special schools across the world. Schools in England affiliated to the Trust receive automatic membership to iNet.

Schools outside England can quickly join iNet online through the iNet website. Find out more by visiting the iNet website or downloading our brochure. Alternatively, you can email inet@ssatrust.org.uk

About personalising learning

The iNet online conferences have been designed to encourage debate and discussion about personalising learning.

The concept of personalising learning has been explored with schools and has been interpreted as the challenge to ensure that more students achieve their full potential during their school years and are better prepared for lifelong learning. It is concerned with a transformation of education and schooling that is fit for citizens in the 21st century. Find out more …

As a result of the first series of personalising learning pamphlets (PL1–6), and the conferences on which they were based, it became clear that there are advantages to clustering the nine gateways into four concepts: deep learning, deep experience, deep support and deep leadership. The four clusters, the impact of working across them, and the implications for students are explained in six new pamphlets:

A new shape for schooling?

Professor David Hargreaves introduces the second series of SSAT pamphlets on personalising learning, which will examine the deepening of learning, experience, support and leadership in schools. The four themes are developed from the nine gateways identified by meetings of over 250 headteachers. Examples from individual schools show how the themes are applied in practice.

Author: David H Hargreaves, Associate Director for Development and Research, Specialist Schools and Academies Trust; and Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge.

Deep learning – 1

This second pamphlet explains the interactions between the deep learning gateways to personalising learning, and the conditions for deep learning; and provides pertinent questions to help school leaders to achieve it.

Author: Emma Sims, Development and Research Coordinator, Specialist Schools and Academies Trust

Deep experience – 1

This pamphlet explains the concept of deep experience and shows its value in engaging students; provides pertinent questions to help school leaders apply the concept; and gives case studies showing how some schools are doing it.

Author: David H Hargreaves, Associate Director for Development and Research, Specialist Schools and Academies Trust; and Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge

Deep support – 1

This fourth pamphlet shows why deep support is an essential element in personalising learning, explains the conditions for deep support, and gives case studies showing how some schools are on the way to achieving it.

Author: Sue Williamson, Director of Leadership and Innovation, Specialist Schools and Academies Trust; formerly headteacher, Monks’ Dyke Technology
College, Lincolnshire

Deep leadership – 1

This pamphlet  explains how deep leadership can ensure that deep learning, deep experience and deep support become embedded in a school so that personalisation becomes fully-fledged.

Author: David H Hargreaves, Associate Director for Development and Research, Specialist Schools and Academies Trust; and Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge.

Deep experience – 2

This sixth in the new SSAT series shows how the concept of deep experience, explored in an earlier pamphlet, can be applied in rethinking the key stage 3 curriculum and its management in schools.

Author: Kai Vacher, Head of Innovation at the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust