Empowerment
Empowerment Is
Empowerment is… not a transfer of power, you do not give up anything. It is the granting of power to the learning relationship, which grows the power of the whole classroom.
Read MoreValues Discovery
Learning Alliance Designing The Learning AlliancePreviously, we introduced you to Designing the Learning Alliance to set the stage for a culture of empowerment, collaboration, and achievement. Designing Classroom Values Let’s start Designing the Alliance with creating a classroom culture based on shared values. Designing a values based classroom culture has 2 parts, Values DIscovery and…
Read MoreStory of Hope: Video Interview With Hope High School
At the Scrum Gathering Phoenix, Hope High School faculty & students share how they use Agile/Scrum to pivot the lives of some of the most disadvantaged students in Phoenix. SolutionsIQ sits down with John Miller (Agile Classrooms) and Mark French (Blueprint Education) to discuss how this idea was born, what it took to make it…
Read MoreLearning Rhythm Infographic
Agile Classrooms set and achieve their learning goals within a repeatable series of feedback loops called the Learning Rhythm, an enabling structure for empowerment. Once learners complete a cycle it repeats again. The regular rhythm simplifies the self-directed learning process so students can take the steering wheel of their own learning. The Learning Rhythm is inspired…
Read More3 Questions for Empowerment
Image Source, Leon Reynolds, /flic.kr/p/ms42JJ Are your students empowered? Ask these 3 questions to find out: (1) What opportunities do students have to make a choice? (2) Do the students use the opportunity to actually make a choice? (3) Does the choice help achieve the desired learning and life outcomes? What insights emerge when…you answer them? …your…
Read MoreThe Learning Canvas
We all want to see our students tackling the complex challenges of their own. But, for many of our students, they have never had to do this before. So, they feel overwhelmed and confused, and they flounder rather than flourish. And you are pulled back into the traditional mode of telling them what and to…
Read MoreUnpacking Empowerment
In designing a 21st Century Classrooms, empowering self-directed learnings is key. In fact, growing empowerment it is one of the 4 key elements of an Agile Classroom, along with the Visible Classroom, the Learning Rhythym, and Growing Collaboration. This infographic goes deepens our understaning by unpacking the 4 essential components of what make up empowerment*: 1. Access…
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