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Becoming A Facilitator In an Agile classroom, educators change roles from the content expert and gatekeeper of knowledge to learning facilitator. This means that students take the lead in their
Over the past 20 years, social studies have diminished in traditional K-12 education. Initially, the priority was only math and reading. As STEM gained importance, the need for engineers to
Every parent knows their child has a unique personality and needs. We know as children develop, their main goal is to have agency in their lives. For example, toddlers will
What does education look like in 2021? Is it students sitting silently at desks? Worksheets and textbooks? Bell ringers and guided notes? These are symbols of traditional learning we have
The year begins with a bang. Students shuffling in with crumbs of summer still in their eyes are staring down the project to end all projects. Their first topic in
In an agile classroom, teachers do not dispense information to the whole group. They serve as the guide on each student’s learning pathway. By replacing the teacher as the “Sage
Throughout the summer, I answered this question from educators all over the world. While I do not have a definitive answer, there are some qualities that distinguish an agile classroom
Adopting an agile mindset in the classroom means trusting teams to organize and complete work in rapid iterations. To truly implement this framework students need to select their own groups
Jessica published an earlier article describing EduScrum on July 9, 2021. Last summer, I was struck with a lightning bolt of inspiration. After being beaten and torn down by distance
This year we faced an incredible number of challenges from distance learning to plexiglass, but the lessons from the spring of 2020 have been learned. We must keep kids connecting,