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Centering Learners By Design

We are educators, administrators, and change-makers committed to supporting educators, schools, districts, and states realize their vision for learner-centered education.

Why learner-centered education?

In a learner-centered paradigm young people are prepared to embrace challenges, navigate complex situations, leverage technology to solve problems, create efficiencies, and learn how to learn as the world and workplace evolve.

How do we get there?

✔️ Define whole-learner outcomes that take into account skills, habits, knowledge to thrive in a modern world.

✔️ Design meaningful learning experiences to achieve your desired outcomes.

✔️ Create enabling conditions and systems that support the desired outcomes and learning experiences.

Our learner-centered footprint

150+ Partners  •  30 States  •  2 million students  •  150,000 educators

It’s Your Journey

Where would you like to explore next?

PARTNERSHIPS

Schools, districts, states

COURSES

Teachers & administrators

CONNECTIONS

Regional & national networks

RESOURCES

Free tools, strategies, frameworks and more

2024-25 Learner-Centered Connections applications are open. Apply now!     

“Learner-Centered Collaborative has created a learning environment for site leaders and their teams to plan with intent, focus keenly on how improvement efforts align and support instructional areas of focus, and find common points of interest with other sites to ensure quality collaboration.” 

– Rachel Gil, Instructional Coach, Santa Ana Unified School District

“Having a clear and aligned Framework for the Future has been so positive for our district—and the true payoff is walking through classes and seeing our learning model in action with students and teachers as we reimagine learning.” 

– Kim Kuklensi, Principal, Mesa Union School District

“I used to think I had to design all of the instruction, but if it’s learner centered, there’s no reason why students cannot be part of that process as well.” 

– Teacher, Middlesboro Independent Schools, Kentucky

“Learner-Centered Collaborative has been instrumental in the transformative journey that we are on in Santa Ana Unified School District….We’ve taken a multi-pronged approach to the work, with Learner-Centered Collaborative serving as thought partners for district leadership, supporting and facilitating principals meetings as well as instructional learning walks at school sites across the district.” 

– Dr. Lorraine Perez, Deputy Superintendent Educational Services, Santa Ana Unified School District

“Materials provided were very engaging and relevant, and there were plenty of opportunities given to engage in meaningful ways, both alone and in small groups, to brainstorm and explore how they can be used in our own classroom environments.” 

– Teacher, Colorado Springs School District, Colorado

“I am really enjoying our sessions! You do a nice job of breaking things up so it moves quickly enough to keep everyone’s attention. You seem to be genuinely excited about the work, which is infectious.” 

– District participant, Learner-Centered Leadership Pathway, Laguna Beach Unified School District

Explore our growing partner network and impact.

Learner-centered is taking hold across the country. See who’s leading the way and how they’re doing it.

Check out our learner-centered framework.

From whole-learner outcomes to the learning experiences that support them to the enabling conditions for success.

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Summer is just around the corner and we're looking forward to #ISTELive where @marlon_stylesjr and Brittany Griffin will be joining amazing thinkers, leaders, and practitioners in discussions on how technology can support the shift to learner-centered education.

Brittany will join a panel of thought leaders from @americasucceeds, @comptiaofficial, and Global CTE Learning to explore how we can integrate employability skills from middle school onward.

Marlon will be facilitating a dynamic conversation with leaders from @ectorcountyisd to showcase how they are finding synergy between leadership and technology throughout the district.

If you are attending (or thinking about it and now have a reason to submit your registration 😉) be sure to add these two sessions to your list and let us know you're coming!
To identify the relevant success metrics for your school or district, a tiered-data approach can open up new ways of talking about what we could and should measure.

In his latest blog post, Devin Vodicka (@learnercenteredleadership) lays out four tiers of data to consider when identifying the relevant success metrics for your desired outcomes:

1. Activity Metrics
2. Observation Metrics
3. Feedback Metrics
4. Impact Metrics

Learn more about how each tier can enable your learning community to achieve the whole-learner outcomes you desire by checking out this article at http://learnercentered.org/blog
4 of the most common questions we get when discussing competency-based learning:

🙋‍♂️ What outcomes should we assess?
🙋‍♂️ What levels of proficiency should we use?
🙋‍♂️ What could a progress report look like?
🙋‍♂️ What would the assessment process be?

We are diving into these questions and more with examples from 15 learner-centered environments that are integrating competency-based systems and processes into their learning models.

All of this will be available in our upcoming Competency-Based Reporting Playbook. Sign up now for early access and be one of the first to provide input that will shape the final version!
What's one product or solution you’ve used or experienced that didn’t work for you? What do you wish the designers had known when they were designing?

Now, imagine these two questions were asked of your students when it comes to their daily learning experiences? What answers might they share?

These reflection questions set the stage for introducing design thinking into your daily learner-centered practice.

If you're ready to dive deep into this topic, check out our Design Thinking course!
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