A new school system — proven decades ago: the Lead Out Method.
You've heard about great teachers achieving spectacular results.
Before we couldn't copy their success because we didn't know what to copy.
Now we do.
Two educators have proven a good school system.
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, 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
The problem.
With just one teacher, how do we bring out the best from each of the many students?
Eva Fugitt and Marva Collins solved that problem.
You can too.
The Lead Out Method has the secret.
The secret: solve the right problem.
If a car won't start because it is out of gas,
— and for a hundred years of replacing and re-replacing one part after another (the wrong problem) — it still won't start —
it might seem like the car can't be fixed.
After a few decades you might start blaming the driver or the passengers or the roads.
It can't be the car, right?
All the parts have been replaced.
If the school system doesn't work because it is trying to get students to learn at the same pace, which can't be done because students are all different
— and over a century of changing the curriculum, adding computers, and bringing in learning management systems (the wrong problems) —
it still won't work —
it might seem like the system can't be fixed.
After a few decades you might start blaming parents or teachers or teacher unions.
It can't be the system, right?
All the “parts” have been replaced.
“Super” teachers succeeded with a system to solve the right problem:
too many students don't yet have inside what they need to succeed.
When students don't have inside what they need to succeed, instead of learning to many:
- “goof off”
- have short attention
- carry stress, or even trauma
- give up too easily
Everything changes when we address the right problem:
Students do succeed when, inside, they have what they need to succeed:
- Wellness
- Hope (why would a student even try without hope)
- To lead oneself with passion & perseverance
Such students succeed in life and school.
The result:
In class: students sit up, pay attention, take notes, ask questions.
In-the-zone: students use the very freedom they need to learn — and to help each other learn — just right for each.
Gentle milestones 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 needs to participate.)
- Involve the department of curriculum & instruction — very helpful in making sure the benefits of the Lead Out Method are realized.
- Acquire the theory behind the Lead Out Method. Skipping the theory dooms implementation. Acquiring it guides a good one.
- Learn how to apply the method — beginning with yourself. Experiencing the Inner Educational exercises yourself builds confidence in classroom effectiveness, and excitement for proceeding.
- Get off and running to great results.
Your classrooms are now succeeding with educating and learning.
Educating
Your classrooms are now doing what was so successful for Eva Fugitt and Marva Collins.
Educating gets students inside what they need to succeed: wellness, hope, passion, perseverance. Without this, learning is — if not impossible — much more difficult.
Educating comes from the Latin e·du·ce·re: to lead out the student from inside, so they lead themselves more independently — more autonomously.
Learning
Students apply themselves with a will. They fail cheerfully. They persist curiously. They master reading, writing, mathematics, science, and critical thinking.
The three conditions scientifically proven to activate learning motivation are now present (more on learning motivation →):
- Autonomy — students can lead themselves more independently.
- Mastery — challenges in-the-zone, which require some autonomy.
- Purpose — they realize success and even bring in their own interests.
If you want to bring out the best from each student each day, the Lead Out Method has the secret.
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