The Lead Out Method
A new school system
— already proven decades ago.
We all want all
students succeeding.
The problem
What is the first step, every single time?
- If a car won't start?
- If the sink doesn't drain?
- If a patient arrives at an emergency room?
- If all students aren't learning?
The answer is always the same: What's the problem?
What problem, if addressed, would get all students succeeding?
The solutions are on the shelf. They are ready to go.
There are millions of solutions to millions of problems.
Once we find the right problem, the off-the-shelf solution is already waiting.
It really is that simple.
Do that — and we can have a good school system.
Understanding The Beautiful Problem
If a student, from inside, cannot all by themselves sit up, pay attention, take notes, and ask questions — then it is difficult to learn.
And a student who cannot yet use freedom well cannot be given the freedom they need to learn at their own pace.
The Beautiful Problem is about getting inside — building those inner abilities so learning, and freedom, become possible.
The Beautiful Problem is so beautiful because
It gets students educated — and learned.
Educated — ready for the autonomy of real life.
Learned — successfully mastering the official curriculum.
Solving that problem is how Eva Fugitt and Marva Collins got their spectacular results.
Off-the-shelf solutions
The method works in two columns:
Column 1 — Educating
Inner Educational Exercises
Using new educating skills to lead Inner Educational Exercises, students get inside what they need to succeed — the wise part within, the skill-of-the-will, wellness, and hope.
Column 2 — Learning
Students apply themselves with a will
Failing cheerfully
Persisting curiously
Students start breaking out of same-pace learning — as their independent abilities grow.
Classroom steps
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Acquire new educating skills. Learn how to:
- develop wellness in the brain
- lead out student independence with Inner Educational Exercises
- use the science of learning motivation
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Learn how to work on the system — not just in it:
- Taylor's method
- The Lead Out Method
- Deming's Quality Method
- Lean / agile techniques
- Educate students. Lead them through a gamut of Inner Educational Exercises so they become able to ask and better hear the wise part within, develop the skill-of-the-will, strengthen attention, and experience wellness — not stress or trauma.
- Go back and forth between educating and teaching.
- Grant growing freedom. As students become more independent, let them break out of same-pace learning — so they learn, and help each other learn, in their own learning zones.
There is a lot more to the Lead Out Method
- A way to subsume Deming's Quality Method to assure students are ready for next year's learning.
- A change in learning priority: reading and writing become preeminent.
The stakes
Two futures.
If school districts keep using Taylor's production method, the school system will continue to fail.
If districts apply The Lead Out Method, students emerge every day more educated and more learned.
The spectacular success
Eva Fugitt turned classrooms of struggling, misbehaving children into students who could sit up, pay attention, and learn — by leading out their own inner discipline rather than imposing it from outside.
Marva Collins did the same on a larger scale, teaching children written off by others to read, reason, and love learning — with results that drew national attention.
Both got their results by solving The Beautiful Problem. Their stories are told in The Beautiful Problem.
Ready to explore further?
See how a district can begin, voluntarily and without compulsion.