We're so excited to be launching into the third year of our Fusion Cohort programme at St George's School.  Not only are we beginning to see the legacy of the the work students have started during their Fusion year, but the third iteration of the programme is allowing us refine, reflect, and revise the way the year roles out for our boys.
The core principles remain the same from year one:

1. The learning has to be relevant.  Personal connections need to be made.  Students need to find paths through the year the make sense to them and relevant to their experience, prior knowledge, and curiosities.
2. The learning needs to be as cross-discipline as possible.  You can't talk about science without leveraging the language and logic of math.  You can't design without understanding of physics and chemistry.  You must be able to communicate your thinking using writing, speaking, and visual literacies.
3. For learning to have personal relevance, reflection is key.  The boys maintain blogs throughout the year as journals of their thinking and documentation of their progress.  
4. Assessment needs to formative and meaningful.  Grades, at least in the Fusion course, are essentially eliminated in favour of more direct feedback on the work that is being done at any given moment.  Most importantly, the student must participate in that assessment for it to be relevant.