Join us this Thursday, January 14th, to see a novel use of Agile philosophy - as applied to classrooms. John Miller will share some amazing stories of learning environments where students learn in self-organizing teams and iterate their own learning. We’ll be meeting at LEARN in North Park at 6:30pm. Beer will be kindly donated by Carl Manaster.
~ Agile Classrooms ~ The future our kids will walk into is going to be very different than when we graduated. They are entering a world that is highly competitive, increasingly complex, and rapidly changing. Students will need to be adaptive, self-directed, reflective, and collaborative to thrive. They will need to be agile. Yet, our school system is walking students into the future backwards. It is rooted in a mass production paradigm where students are told what and how to learn, sit in rows, and passively absorb a waterfall curriculum. Where teachers must comply with standardized lesson plans rather than meet students where they are. Mass production will lead to mass obsolescence. Imagine classrooms across the world where students learn in self-organizing teams and iterate their own learning. Where teachers move from instructor to coach and facilitator. Agile Classrooms cross-pollinates principles and practices from the world of Agile with the world of education. Resulting in an agile framework that is authentic to education. John Miller will share some amazing stories of how teachers and students are becoming agile and how they have shaped the evolution of Agile Classrooms <http://www.agileclassrooms.com/>. Today, Agile Classrooms is being used around the world. ~ About John ~ As the Founder, and Chief Empowerment Officer of Agile Classrooms, John is pioneering Agile in schools to empower teachers and students to thrive in 21st-century learning, life, and work. John is a Certified Enterprise Coach®, Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, Associate Certified Coach, Spiral Dynamics Integral Level 2, and a Project Management Professional. When not focused on work, John loves to surf (well, wiping out more than actually surfing), make silly faces with his seven-year-old daughter, volunteer as a life coach for students, co-lead a Nonviolent Communication Group, and make insanely delicious drinking chocolates. The meeting will be held from 6:30 to 8pm at LEARN <http://learn.notch8.com/> in North Park. Directions and parking information are here <http://www.agilesandiego.org/monthly-meeting/>. We’ll be walking to a local restaurant for more Agile chat after the meeting at 8pm. AgileSanDiego.org <http://www.agilesandiego.org/> AgileClassrooms.com <http://www.agileclassrooms.com/> -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
