Parents, educators, school boards, superintendents:
a new school system — proven decades ago:
the Lead Out Method
a whole lot of hope
A whole lot of hope
Two educators proved beautiful results but the secret was unknown.
Decades later, the Lead Out Method has the secret.
Eva Fugitt
Eva Fugitt, c. 1977
Eva Fugitt, in Oakland CA, took 5th graders (95% African-American) reading below a 3rd-grade level to — on average — reading at a 6th-grade level.
Two students were discovered to be gifted.
Parents said things like, “What's this about goals? Tacelia does her homework as soon as she gets home. She says she's winning her goal.”
Marva Collins
Marva Collins, c. 1979
Marva Collins, in Chicago IL, took students who statistically were at risk of murder, imprisonment, and welfare to thriving as adults — working, studying to be attorneys, starting businesses and non-profits.
In elementary school students were reading Shakespeare, Chaucer, Tolstoy, and Emerson.
educators want
Educators want students to emerge ready for real life — able to pursue their own interests and dreams.
Educators find it painful when students don't succeed, starting life with our best hopes.
The problem
Many won't even look at proof, because for so long the system hasn't worked.
key to the secret
The key to the secret is the problem to choose.
School districts (today) fail
by focusing on an impossible problem — the “wrong” problem:
How to get students to learn at the same pace?
Ms Fugitt and Ms Collins succeeded by
solving a beautiful problem — the “right” problem:
How to get inside what students need to succeed?
- The wise part within — for independence
- The skill-of-the-will
- Wellness — not stress or trauma (the brain is in the way)
- Hope — why would a student even try without hope?
With you as the educator, using the secret
Students sit up, pay attention, take notes, ask questions.
Students use new ability for independence to break out of same-pace learning.
This is a big deal.
With just one educator, the-many students can learn in their own zones (for parts of the day).
Four steps to success
Schoolio offers The Gentle Lead Out Migration Service to help with every phase.
- Start with early adopters — volunteers: 20–30 elementary educators, with their principals, spread over 5–10 schools. (Not every teacher in a school must participate.)
- Acquire the theory behind the Lead Out Method. Skipping the theory dooms implementation. Acquiring the theory powers a good implementation.
- Beginning with yourself — learn how to apply the method. Experiencing the Inner Educational exercises builds confidence and excitement for proceeding.
- Start using the Two Columns of the Lead Out Method.
Your classroom, succeeding with the Two Columns of The Lead Out Method
Column 1
Educating
Using Inner Educational Exercises, students get inside what they need to succeed.
Column 2
Learning
Students apply themselves with a will.
Failing cheerfully — persisting curiously.
Choosing today's system is choosing failure.
Students come to see themselves as failures when in fact the system is failing them.
Instead of succeeding, too many students:
- “goof off”
- have short attention
- carry stress, or even trauma (the brain is less available)
- give up too easily
If you want to bring out the best from each student each day, the Lead Out Method has the secret.
Educators need your help to support a change.
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