In January of 2026, The Charter Institute at Erskine (the Institute) formed a historic international partnership with the Kunskapsskolan Network (KED), a global community of more than 100 schools across Sweden, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, India, and the Middle East. The international partnership connects the Institute to a worldwide network of innovative schools committed to personalized learning and student-centered education, while advancing a shared focus on excellence in mathematics. A focus of this exchange will be math instructional practices, resources, and strategies to ensure schools across the globe are Moving the Needle in math.

In April, KED educators and researchers from around the world will visit Institute charter school classrooms to learn alongside South Carolina educators, and Institute leaders will also engage directly with KED schools abroad. This exchange will give educators the chance to see how different school cultures affect learning outcomes, while also identifying new strategies to improve educational outcomes for students in South Carolina and in KED schools globally.