Agile

Learning needs to change. Ideally schools could adopt a student-pulled curriculum (instead of a push system, which is what we overwhelmingly have), based on their own needs and interests.

Importance of encouraging exploration, context, and challenge.

So what’s agility? You’ll get different answers from different people, but you’ll likely pick up on a strong leitmotif of collaborative work.

Summer camp experiences led to some deep understanding about learning. Namely, we sometimes let our teaching and planning get in learning’s way.

Reflections on educational improvements through student choice, self-regulation, and challenge.

Approaches to encourage learner ownership and self-regulation using Agile principles.

STEAM projects provide an excellent avenue for student engagement and excellence through student choice, buy-in and challenge.

Our school is pulling agile into education. Now three years in, here’s a snippet of our journey, highlighting the multiple paths we’ve been moving along and where we hope to go in the coming years.

Education can be enhanced with an Agile mindset.

The story of a high school student who demonstrated the need for the school curriculum to have flexible space into which new and interesting opportunities can be inserted.