Learner-Centered Instruction
Do your classrooms create a culture of inquiry and collaboration?
Strengthen learner agency to support students to become more confident, lifelong learners
Engage all learners in inquiry grounded in collaboration, questioning, and discussion
Leverage foundational knowledge and skills to create transfer-level learning experiences
Build and support a toolkit of effective strategies anchored to support surface, deep, and transfer of learning in your content area
What are your ‘learner-centered instruction’ goals?
Move from teacher-centered to learner-centered classrooms
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Our professional learning pathways all have the same goal, to advance learner ownership, efficacy, and agency. We partner with your system to assess your needs and co-construct an action plan anchored in implementation science. We are ready to help and support you at any stage of your learning journey.
Our Learning Progression
Foundational Learning
Build a shared language of learning anchored in co-constructed goals and success criteria aligned to your mission and vision.
Job-Embedded Coaching
Empower educators using the gradual release of responsibility to model, coach, monitor, and analyze progress towards shared goals.
Sustainable Systems
Advance teacher agency to ensure risk-taking, innovation, and collective efficacy through quality implementation.
Learner-Centered Engagement
Do your teachers need support in moving from being teacher-centered to learner-centered? Questions are the driving force of learning in a classroom. This series created by “questioning guru” Connie Hamilton puts learners at the center by applying evidence-based strategies and protocols to empower learners in meaningful discussion, active listening and collaboration.
EngagED Questioning and Discussion Foundations
Experience and dig into framing, delivering and maximizing questions in the classroom to keep students engaged and involved in their own learning in this foundational day(s) of learning.
- Avoid “I don’t know.” (IDK) as a final answer to questions
- Sequence questions to maximize cognitive thinking
- Determine when and how to use content vs. engagement questions
- Activate and facilitate collaborative learning and discussion
- Build a toolkit of engagement questions
Hacking Questions: 11 Answers That Create a Culture of Inquiry in Your Classroom (Hack Learning Series)
Connie Hamilton
Beyond Foundation: Question-Answer-Relationship
- Define each category of question answer relationship (QAR)
- Develop metacognition for asking and answering questions
- Write questions aligned with QAR
Hacking Questions: 11 Answers That Create a Culture of Inquiry in Your Classroom (Hack Learning Series)
Connie Hamilton
Beyond Foundation: Question Formulation Technique
- Experience the question-formulation-technique (QFT)
- Learn QFT design, facilitation, and trouble-shooting
- Apply planning tools and resources to plan and refine lessons
Hacking Questions: 11 Answers That Create a Culture of Inquiry in Your Classroom (Hack Learning Series)
Connie Hamilton
Beyond Foundation: Active Listening to Support Discussion
- Examine a sequence of a speaking and listening standards
- Plan collaborative learning protocols that transfer
- Identify conditions for successful collaborative learning
Hacking Questions: 11 Answers That Create a Culture of Inquiry in Your Classroom (Hack Learning Series)
Connie Hamilton
Learner-Centered Content Coaching
Are your teachers teaching for transfer? When learners can speak to where they are in the learning process (surface-deep-transfer), they can accelerate their own learning. Learner-centered content coaching partners content experts with teams to involve students in every aspect of the learning process.
Learner-Centered Literacy
- Balancing surface, deep, and transfer of learning
- Refining balanced literacy structures
- Implementing the science of reading
- Differentiating foundational skills for K-5 learners
- Engaging learners effectively in the five pillars of reading
- Systematic writing instruction for the “real world”
Peer Power Chapters 8, 9, and 10
Isaac Wells, Sarah Stevens and Lisa Cebelak
Learner-Centered Mathematics
- Balancing surface, deep, and transfer of learning
- Developing the mathematical practices with all learners
- Planning and implementing inquiry-based learning
- Nurturing the resilience and identity of mathematicians
- Writing to learn as mathematicians
Peer Power Chapter 11: The Case for Problem Solving
Lori Cook
Learner-Centered Science
- Balancing surface, deep, and transfer of learning
- Engaging students in inquiry to explain phenomena
- Integrating 3-Dimensional Learning into practice
- Empowering students to solve real world problems
- Read and write like a scientist and engineer
Peer Power Chapter 12: Yes! #PeerPower in Chemistry
Eric Bjornstad
Learner-Centered Social Studies
- Balancing surface, deep, and transfer of learning
- Design learning around the 10-themes of social studies
- Engaging in the development of civic competence
- Read and write like a historian, geographer, etc.
Peer Power Chapters 13-14
Gary P. Giordano and Katie Smith
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