ARC Ideas

During the inaugural summit the delegates reached an agreement on the following action points.

The initial vision of the Atlantic Rim Collaboratory (ARC) is to establish a global group of educational systems that advances values such as equity, excellence, wellbeing, inclusion, democracy and human rights for all students within high-quality, professionally-run systems.

Founding organizations include the Ministries of Education of Scotland, Iceland,Ireland, Finland, Aruba, Sweden, Wales and the Canadian province of Ontario, the Office of the Secretary of Education in Vermont, and the California Board of Education.

The inaugural summit on Iceland focused on how the high-quality systems represented are preparing for the future demands on schools and teachers: defining a vision and strategy for the group and developing a three-year plan of action.