Six Words to Create Learning That Lasts

Design: The structure for day to day, week to week, year to year flow for learning success for all students.

Deliver: The multitude of ways learning can be delivered to students by teachers, friends, librarians, parents, video, AI, and to ways not yet delivered.

Learn: Includes knowledge and skills retained for life. Does not include trivia that is interesting, but students are not expected to remember.

Inspect: The false belief that quality learning can be obtained through inspection with ABCDF or any other ranking scheme.

Develop: All people are on earth with a purpose. We help all students and adults develop their skills and talents to succeed with their purpose and share this success with others.

Demand: Learn (or teach) the way I demand is far too common. This mindset is what we have all experienced far too often.

If we are ever going to excel in education, we must have a design that builds upon children’s intrinsic motivation to learn, celebrate team and individual learning and refuse to depend upon inspection to assure quality. Developing everyone’s ability occurs when the design does not force teachers and administrators to demand restrictive, mind-numbing programs.

The dodecagon is a visual of the cycle of learning built upon a solid design. Surrounding the design is the repeated sequence of developing staff and students, multiple ways to deliver and learning that occurs.