As we have become more proficient in the learner-centered paradigm through our work in the Salisbury Township School District, we have started spreading the learner-centered message!
Voice and Choice: The Learner-Centered Lens
What does it mean to give learners voice and choice in their learning? What distinguishes personalized learning, competency-based learning, open-walled learning, socially-embedded learning and learner agency in learner-centered environments from school-centered environments? What does it mean to innovate within your classrooms, school or district through the learner-centered lens?
Leading Innovation
Leading organizations with the learner at the center. Should this kind of leadership look different? How do we build our knowledge, skills, and dispositions to lead in new learner-centered environments? We think leadership in our schools today should look different! To explore this new territory, leaders in the Salisbury Township School District have been engaging Education Reimagined, learner-centered leaders and learners across the country in the Shift Your Paradigm podcast to uncover the characteristics needed to guide learner-centered transformation. The conversations are revealing the boundaries of what makes or breaks a shift. What are the lessons learned from national leaders who are co-designing innovative learning environments?
Additional resources:
- Salisbury Township School District Vision Document
- Shift Your Paradigm Podcast– Transcripts of the first two episodes.
- What we’ve learned so far….learner-centered competencies
- Education Reimagined Website
- A Transformational Vision for Education in the US
- Practitioner’s Lexicon: What is meant by key terminology?
- Graphic Organizer – learner-centered v school-centered