Education

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.

Principles to cultivate engaged, collaborative and self-regulated students. A video Interview by Scrum Alliance.

Principles to empower students, make learning visible and to create lifelong learners. An audio interview by Howard Sublett of AgileAmped Podcast.

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.