About Ark
Transforming lives through education
Ark is an education charity that exists to make sure that all children, regardless of their background, have access to a great education and real choices in life. We started with one school, fourteen years ago We’ve always believed that, with the right approach, every school has the potential to succeed - even those in the most challenging circumstances. Nothing should be a barrier to children achieving. From working with just one school, Ark has since grown into a network of 38 schools in the UK - and is now recognised as one of the highest achieving academy groups in the country. We still only work in the communities where we can make the biggest difference to
children’s lives, and all our schools are non-selective. As our network has grown, so have our ambitions
We want to change the lives of children everywhere, not just in our own schools. So we create and incubate ventures designed not only to help pupils in Ark schools, but also to improve education systems as a whole. These ventures tackle some of the most intractable problems facing children – including poor numeracy, inadequate support
for dyslexic pupils, and the lack of quality social workers. We innovate, learn and adapt - and then we share it
Things can only be changed through hard work, high expectations and evidence- driven approaches. In some cases, it could be about tweaking the way a lesson is taught; in others, it’s changing the way we think about training teachers. For instance, in the UK, our structured approach to teacher training and professional development is helping to embed outstanding teaching in our schools– for trainee teachers right through to executive headteachers. And we don’t stop at training our own teachers. Programmes such as the Ambition Institute and Mathematics Mastery are now training teachers and school leaders in hundreds of schools across the UK.
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