Welcome to The Learning Challenge, a charitable organization based in the North East of England. We are teachers, headteachers, academics, psychologists and researchers who have pooled our skills to reduce the corrosive effects of disaffection in our schools. We have designed and delivered programmes to help schools, we have trained school staff and researched the effects of our work. It is our belief that by educating ourselves in the emotional and intellectual needs of children schools can offer a curriculum that provokes and supports creative investigation, schools can deliver effective interventions to the traumatized child, and schools can manage behavior and transition in a way that allows teachers to teach and learners to learn to the limit of their ability.