Strategy: Group working norms with learners
Authentic Learning Strategy: Create group working norms with learners NOTE: This strategy is part of the self-paced Spark Collaboration Course Creating group norms as the outset of any collaborative learning experience supports learners to work well together and provides the teacher with an anchor for providing feedback to learners on their collaboration. These norms should be co-created with learners. After practicing with learners to create group norms as a class, asking them to create their own team contracts can help them own their own norms and figure out the best way to work together as a group and ...
Strategy: Make Group Progress Visible
Authentic Learning Strategy: Make Group Progress Visible NOTE: This strategy is part of the self-paced Spark Collaboration Course Create a way to display group progress during collaborative work blocks to keep track of progress as a class. A few ways that you might do this include: Create a physical or digital timeline and plot student groups using post-its or magnets to show where they are in the project based on deadlines Create a spreadsheet and display it to show progress Use timers and ask groups to create goals to complete within a certain timeframe. They can write their ...
Learner-Centered Connections Info Session
Learning is social yet today’s legacy model of education is isolating. Leveraging the power of networks can change that… Introducing Learner-Centered Connections, an opportunity to join a micro-network of education leaders, districts, schools, and businesses to accelerate learner-centered innovation to benefit all our young learners. This program will include: School and industry visits In-person connections with colleagues nationwide based on shared goals, affinities, and interests. Year-round virtual access to coaching sessions, communities of practice, and cohort colleagues. Applications for our 2023-24 school year cohort open April 4. View the recording of Marlon Styles’ “office hours” style meet-up to hear about ...
Webinar Recording: Flex This Superpower- A Learner-Centered Approach to Engaging Stakeholders
Devin Vodicka and Marlon Styles, both learner-centered leaders and former Superintendents, share 8 superpowers for engaging stakeholders as empowered agents of change.
Webinar Recording: 3 Learner-Centered Professional Learning Practices to Take Back to Your District
What’s happening behind the scenes of successful learner-centered schools and districts? Intentionally designed, collaborative efforts that prioritize people, community input, and a community’s unique culture and goals. School and district leaders will get an inside view of three unique, impactful practices our team leads with schools and districts putting learners at the center. These practices will help you set the foundation for a clear and aligned vision and support engagement and implementation throughout your learning community. Get an insider view into: Learning Walks Student Forums Coaching In this 40-minute session we dive into each of these services and explore: What ...
10 Questions to Ask Students
Listening to learners is essential when leading change. This tool will help you spark conversations with your students to understand what’s working and where innovation may best serve your school. Empathy - listening to learners - is the first step in designing solutions that scale. Choose the format for connecting with you learners that best aligns with your goals—student forums, focus groups, surveys, or interviews—and use these key questions to help guide the conversation. To download this tool and get started, complete the form below:
Getting from District Mission and Vision to Implementation with Learners
Mesa Union is a small, tight-knit school district steeped in tradition dating back to its inception in 1939. As the community emerged from Covid-19 remote learning there was a growing awareness and consensus that they needed to rethink practices across the district so they could evolve and find new and better ways to support student success in school and life.
Empowering Digital Equity Through Digital Literacy
Students at Sutton Middle School use online research to answer questions during a lesson in history class. Photo by Allison Shelley for EDUimages Global pandemics. Advances with bot technology and artificial intelligence (hello, ChatGPT). Readily available and increasingly sophisticated tools, tactics, and tricks aimed at mass misinformation, content confusion, and emotional appeal. These are but a few of the continually evolving conditions that, in the wake of 2020’s national shift to online, tech-based learning, prompted the realization that digital equity requires diligent and intentional implementation of digital literacy. The inextricable link between digital literacy and digital ...
Superintendent Marlon Styles and High Tech High GSE Leader Katie Weisberg to Join Learner-Centered Collaborative’s Growing Team of Educational Leaders
January 9, 2023—San Francisco, CA—Superintendent Marlon Styles, widely recognized for notable academic improvements and the positive #MiddieRising culture at Middletown City School District, and Katie Weisberg, a leader at the High Tech High Graduate School of Education, will be joining the education non-profit Learner-Centered Collaborative. Styles has served as Superintendent of Middletown City School District in Ohio for the past five years, during which time he has implemented numerous initiatives to improve student achievement and increase community engagement. As a Partner at Learner-Centered Collaborative, Styles will work closely with schools and districts nationally to help them implement learner-centered approaches and ...
Mini Toolkit: Competency-Based Learning Strategies
What are learner-centered strategies? Learner-centered strategies are actionable steps educators can take to create personalized, competency-based, authentic, inclusive and equitable learning environments. What’s inside? In this mini toolkit you will find a selection of three learner-centered strategies tied to the competency-based learning educator competencies. The strategies featured in this toolkit are: Assess formatively Plan assessments based on outcomes Host a defense of learning For each strategy you will find “bright spots” or examples from the field, tools to support implementation, and resources for continued exploration. Looking for more? Interested in exploring the full toolkit and/or learner-centered professional learning for ...
Mini Toolkit: Personalized Learning Strategies
What are learner-centered strategies? Learner-centered strategies are actionable steps educators can take to create personalized, competency-based, authentic, inclusive and equitable learning environments. What’s inside? In this mini toolkit you will find a selection of three learner-centered strategies tied to the personalized learning educator competencies. The strategies featured in this toolkit are: Create Choice Boards Set Goals with Learners Use Protocols for Discussion For each strategy you will find “bright spots” or examples from the field, tools to support implementation, and resources for continued exploration. Looking for more? Interested in exploring the full toolkit and/or learner-centered professional learning for your ...
Mini Toolkit: Authentic Learning Strategies
What are learner-centered strategies? Learner-centered strategies are actionable steps educators can take to create personalized, competency-based, authentic, inclusive and equitable learning environments. What’s inside? In this mini toolkit you will find a selection of three learner-centered strategies tied to the authentic learning educator competencies. The strategies featured in this toolkit are: Leverage design thinking Design out-of-the-box learning spaces Support learners with peer feedback For each strategy you will find “bright spots” or examples from the field, tools to support implementation, and resources for continued exploration. Looking for more? Interested in exploring the full toolkit and/or learner-centered professional learning for ...
Mini Toolkit: Inclusive & Equitable Learning Strategies
What are learner-centered strategies? Learner-centered strategies are actionable steps educators can take to create personalized, competency-based, authentic, inclusive and equitable learning environments. What’s inside? In this mini toolkit you will find a selection of three learner-centered strategies tied to the inclusive & equitable learning educator competencies. The strategies featured in this toolkit are: Get to know your learners Provide self-regulation support and intervention Conduct Empathy Interviews For each strategy you will find “bright spots” or examples from the field, tools to support implementation, and resources for continued exploration. Looking for more? Interested in exploring the full toolkit and/or learner-centered ...
Webinar Recording: Framework for the Future, Don’t Try Leading Without One
The secret behind many schools and districts making progress toward clear, shared, and aligned learner-centered outcomes is a Framework for the Future that actively guides a learning community’s decisions, experiences, and resources. In this webinar, school and district leaders will discover: Why a Graduate Profile isn’t enough What exactly is a Framework for the Future How it supports leadership and learning in every facet of a district from the admin team to student learning and educator professional development Where their school or district is in the process and the next actions to move their district forward (hint: you are ...
Creating a Learner-Centered High School by Listening to Learners
Mineola Public Schools Creating a Learner-Centered High School by Listening to Learners Synergy@ Mineola High School is part of Mineola Schools in Long Island, NY The district serves approximately 2,800 students, with a high school enrollment of 1,056 students in grades 8 through 12. . OUR SERVICES Diagnostic, Coaching, Empathy Interviews, Learning Walks, Strategic Planning GOAL Recognizing the value of a personalized, competency-based, learner-driven model of education to best support the diverse strengths and challenges of learners, the Mineola School District partnered with Learner-Centered Collaborative to elevate student voice and build upon existing ...
2021-22 Impact Report
Celebrating a Year of Learner-Centered Collaboration As a non-profit in pursuit of a vision for education ecosystems that empower all learners to know who they are, thrive in community, and actively engage in the world as their best selves we are pleased to present our 2021-22 Impact Report. This report featuring our progress in our first year as a not-for-profit organization includes: A letter from our executives Partner network overview Impact stories from partner schools and districts Impact to date in: Research and Development Convenings and Innovation Hubs Professional Learning Our Board of Directors and Advisory Council View now (full ...
Creating and Realizing a Profile of Success Throughout a District
Logan County Schools Creating and Realizing a Profile of Success Throughout a District Public, rural school district, spanning 120 miles in Russellville, Kentucky Serving 3,100 students in five PK-8th grade schools, one high school, and one Career and Technology Center OUR SERVICES Learning Walks, Profile of Success, Success Indicators, Learning Model, Defenses of Learning, Book Study, LC Innovators Facilitation GOAL Logan County Schools partnered with Learner-Centered Collaborative to develop a Profile of Success driven by an opt-in team of educators known as the LC Innovators. Recognizing that success hinges on buy-in from the ...
Building State Leadership Team Capacity for Personalized, Competency-Based Learning
Utah State Board of Education Building State Leadership Team Capacity for Personalized, Competency-Based Learning Oversees 1,075 public schools in 130 LEAs Reaches over 675,000 students across grades K-12 in the state of Utah. OUR SERVICES Leadership coaching, Learning Walks, Personalized Learning Pathway, Asynchronous Learning Resources, State-level Capacity Building. GOAL The Utah State Board of Education (USBE) partnered with Learner-Centered Collaborative to build capacity and enable USBE specialists and coordinators to support implementation of the state’s Personalized, Competency-Based Learning (PCBL) framework, a learning model that includes 5 components necessary to nurture learner-centered outcomes as ...
