ARC is a global educational movement that advances equity, broad excellence, inclusion, wellbeing, democracy, sustainability & human rights in high quality, professionally run systems. As a collaboratory we promote improvement, innovation and inclusion in schools and larger societies.
2024 ARC Summit - Edinburgh, Scotland
See the recap from the seventh summit that took place in Edinburgh, Scotland, from September 26 to 29, 2024 which included the three-day Summit and local school visits.
Now available: The 2020-2024 ARC Thoughtmeet series
Framed around the eight guiding ARC principles, an ARC Thoughtmeet is a virtual bringing together of ideas and minds to create swift, timely, and practical collective solutions to urgent problems
The initial vision of the 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.
The idea for the ARC Education project evolved over a period of time through explorations with interested systems, but it was fully born and founded in a Toronto restaurant in December 2013, and further developed at the 2014 International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI) congress in Glasgow, Scotland…..