Agile

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.

An interview with Daniel Patton (science) and Bill Tihen (IT) who joined forces to create a course that includes both their …

Education can be enhanced with an Agile mindset.

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.

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.

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.