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Confidence, Challenge and Collaboration
Students actively apply HPL skills in various contexts.” - HPSA Accreditation Feedback, 2025 This feedback reflects more than student achievement; it signals a cultural shift, a school in which teachers think deeply about learning, students take ownership of their progress, and excellence becomes habitual rather than exceptional. David Muir from High Performance Learning concurs, “If we want students to be reflective, open-minded, intellectually curious and resilient, those same qualities should be visible in the professional culture of the school.”
PISA 2025 makes a general point about education for the modern world, “Preparing young people to thrive in a rapidly changing world requires more than strong academic proficiency. Students need the motivation, agency and learning strategies that enable them to take ownership of their learning throughout their lives.” Our children will grow up in a world which isn’t only increasingly complex but one which is increasingly global. Students need to understand what it really means to collaborate and how to work across borders to seek solutions to the challenges which face all of us. Teachers at Network International School comment on encouraging signs of improved collaboration, more thoughtful participation and greater willingness to reflect. Some students are beginning to focus more on their own improvement rather than comparing themselves with classmates, in the words of one student, "Now I think if I can do this, I can do that, and if I can do that, I can do another thing," that is Growth Mindset in action! "Now I think if I can do this, I can do that, and if I can do that, I can do another thing,"
At Network International School, the oldest British International school in Myanmar, its early days with HPL but staff are noticing the impact. They speak about students being more confident with unfamiliar or difficult tasks, they persevere after mistakes and step outside their comfort zones. In Physics, for example, students are increasingly willing to attempt multi-step questions and persist after an incorrect first attempt. HPL is influencing how staff plan and deliver learning, not just how they talk about it. Rather than focusing exclusively on what students are being taught, conversations with teachers have explored how students think, how they respond to challenge, how they reflect on their progress.
David Muir from High Performance Learning
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