EDgility - Encouraging Agency and Collaboration
As part of the ECIS Leadership Conference - April 2020, Guide and Lead Managing Partner, Tim Logan gives an overview of the importance of agility in building schools as life-affirming 21st century organizations.
Webinar Agility by Tim Logan
As part of the ECIS Leadership Conference - April 2020, Guide and Lead Managing Partner, Tim Logan gives an overview of the importance of agility in building schools as life-affirming 21st century organisations.
Demos and Feedback in the Classroom
Four steps for students to give and get safe and effective feedback.
Build Confidence: Exploration and Student Choice
Uplift focuses on the creation of an atmosphere in which students build on existing strengths and grow their self-confidence. Dangerous to an atmosphere of uplift are traditional assessment practices.
Pull vs Push: Student Centric
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 Challenge: Engaged, Deep Learning
Importance of encouraging exploration, context, and challenge.
Roots of Agile for Education
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.
Patient Explanations Lead to Good Things
Reflections on educational improvements through student choice, self-regulation, and challenge.
Getting Agile at School
Approaches to encourage learner ownership and self-regulation using Agile principles.
Designed to Float your Boat
STEAM projects provide an excellent avenue for student engagement and excellence through student choice, buy-in and challenge.
Robot Gardener
An interview with Daniel Patton (science) and Bill Tihen (IT) who joined forces to create a course that includes both their …
Agile in Education: Bill Tihen and Paul Magnuson of Leysin American School
Principles to cultivate engaged, collaborative and self-regulated students. A video Interview by Scrum Alliance.
Agile in Education at Leysin American School
Principles to empower students, make learning visible and to create lifelong learners. An audio interview by Howard Sublett of AgileAmped Podcast.
Agile Classrooms in the Alps
LAS began planning in 2014-2015 for the opening of a middle school (grades 7 and 8) in Fall 2016. Twenty-five educators attended John’s Agile Classroom Workshop.
LETS ClimateCase
Through efforts in citizen science, like building a ClimateCase to replicate outside conditions, LAS is teaching real science. Teachers also simulated projected changes to see if they could assess plant survivability.
Climate Sensor Poles
To understand plant ecology, one needs to know the exact temperature that plants are actually growing in, rather than regional averages. Our efforts to make this widely available to citizen scientists and espescially schools.