Part II: PLANNING & LEARNING

Just right FOR EACH STUDENT,

EACH AND EVERY DAY

Not difficult. Many ways.

One technique we really like is a LEAN/AGILE approach from Silicon Valley

At the START of a 2-week SPRINT, each student in little groups of 3-6:

Chooses challenges from the official curriculum.

Not too easy. Not too difficult. Just right, in the zone.

Students then help each other INVOLVE THEIR OWN INTERESTS — as much as possible.

Then students help each other bite-size their challenges into little tasks.

Now we use the same HIGH TECHNOLOGY

used all over Silicon Valley:

YELLOW STICKY NOTES which we move:

From the TO DO column

To the IN PROCESS column

To the TESTING-WHAT-IS-JUST-RIGHT-FOR-ME column

versus waiting six weeks to find out that I never even learned it

To the DONE column!

The Lead out method has a LOT MORE.

(We SUBSUME Deming's beautiful quality method into the Lead out method.)

But already we can see the Lead out method solves the STRUCTURAL problem of the ONE-AND-MANY in schooling:

Now, even though the one adult in the classroom has only one mouth

And students are all different.

More powerfully INDEPENDENT students are HELPING each other learn JUST RIGHT for each.

The RESULTS:

Students using their DEVELOPING INDEPENDENCE

to HELP EACH OTHER

PLAN THE LEARNING just right

FOR EACH AND EVERY STUDENT.

More results: PRACTICE

1-size-fits-all method

Years of sitting in chairs facing the teacher.

Little opportunity to practice the independence growing inside.

Lead out method

Many years of education for independence.

And many years of practice using more independence in a safe environment called school.

More results: READINESS for life

1-size-fits-all method

Too many UNREADY for the SUDDEN AUTONOMY

of REAL LIFE after high school.

Lead out method

EVERY student MUCH MORE READY

because of YEARS of PRACTICE using one's own developing independence.