ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the ASPIRE principles are combined in action in various educational settings across the world, impacting on school culture and benefitting the wellbeing and learning of all children.
This includes how a school leader built a positive school culture in Australia, the Wild Plots environmental curriculum for young children in the UK, the impact of Circle Solutions social and emotional learning across an elementary school in China, educational psychologists supporting ASPIRE in schools in the south of England, and an inspirational wellbeing initiative in six schools in Franschhoek, South Africa.
ASPIRE summarises what is needed for an education fit for purpose in the 21st century, one in which students are empowered, safe and enjoy learning, where teachers feel supported, respected and nourished and where families are confident that the school has their child’s best interests at heart. ASPIRE is not just a fleeting emotion or experience but a way of connecting the personal and public sphere, from individual wellbeing to the world our children will create and inherit. ASPIRE puts radical love at the heart of education.
