May 2020 Initial Findings of the SoLD ( Science of Learning & Development) Alliance.
This paper proposes that all children can thrive and learn when the ways in which they are educated and developed are transformed. As well as providing some important understandings about learning (see phrases that follow) it outlines 8 key findings that overlap and support learning in integrated ways. These are: Potential; Malleability: Individuality: Context; Relationships; Integration; Continuum & Meaning Making.
The paper provides an explanation of each of these elements that the reader will find useful, as is the diagram of the ways in which they integrate to support learning.
While it doesn’t have recommendations for the ways in which systems may need to be redesigned it does provide a starting point. Teachers in classrooms may already, or may begin to reflect upon these elements and weave them into their instructional practices as they continue to develop ways to support the learners in their care.