The Framework
What is CLEAR?
CLEAR is a shared architecture for learning.
It creates coherence across classrooms without prescribing what every lesson should look like.
Through five interconnected phases — Connect, Launch, Explore, Assess & Adjust, and Reflect & Reinforce — CLEAR provides a common language that supports ambitious, inclusive and responsive learning whilst preserving subject expertise and teacher autonomy.
The Name
What does CLEAR stand for?
Each letter represents one phase of the learning cycle. Together they form a shared architecture for learning — creating coherence without conformity and enabling every subject to teach in ways that are true to its discipline.
Connect
Build upon prior knowledge and establish the conditions for meaningful learning.
Launch
Frame learning through meaningful enquiries that spark curiosity, participation and purpose.
Explore
Deepen understanding through active learning, purposeful practice and disciplinary thinking.
Assess & Adjust
Students reflect on their understanding whilst teachers use formative assessment to check, respond and adapt teaching in real time.
Reflect & Reinforce
Consolidate learning, strengthen memory and promote long-term understanding.
Learning through CLEAR
CLEAR is not a script for teaching.
It is a shared architecture that describes how learning unfolds whilst preserving subject expertise and teacher autonomy.
Principles
What makes CLEAR distinctive?
Coherence Without Conformity
A shared architecture that creates consistency whilst preserving professional judgement and subject expertise.
A Shared Language for Learning
A common vocabulary that makes conversations about learning more precise and purposeful.
A Framework, Not a Script
CLEAR provides structure, not prescription. Teachers remain the experts.
Rooted in Evidence
CLEAR is informed by research and shaped by the realities of classroom practice. It is not a new theory of learning, but a practical framework that translates evidence and professional expertise into everyday teaching.
Developed in Classrooms
Created through real implementation, refinement and professional practice.
Designed for Every Discipline
A framework that works across subjects whilst respecting the unique nature of each discipline.
Clarity
What CLEAR is not
Not a lesson plan template
CLEAR is visible across every lesson, but it does not prescribe how those lessons should look. The five phases provide a shared architecture for learning whilst allowing teachers to adapt, emphasise and enact them in ways that are true to their discipline, students and context.
Not a tick-box framework
Every lesson contains all five phases of CLEAR. They are not a tick-box sequence or a script to follow, but a shared architecture that describes how learning unfolds whilst preserving teacher autonomy and professional judgement.
Not a top-down mandate
CLEAR respects teachers as experts. It provides a shared architecture for learning whilst giving professionals the freedom to enact it in ways that are true to their discipline, students and context.
"CLEAR creates coherence without conformity — providing a shared architecture for learning whilst preserving subject expertise and teacher autonomy."
Explore Further
CLEAR creates coherence without conformity. A shared architecture for learning that preserves subject expertise and teacher autonomy.