Agile Learning Centers
Why?
In a world where all information is at your fingertips we understand that success relies not on your ability to memorize or regurgitate facts, but rather to filter, organize, and creatively apply this information. An Agile Learning Center prepares young people to navigate the world by cultivating the skills of entrepreneurialism, digital literacy, resourcefulness, efficient collaboration and self-directed initiative.
What?
Agile Learning Centers are a network of self-directed learning communities creating and curating an open-sourced educational model. We borrow, invent, and evolve leading-edge tools and practices for creating healthy cultures, and share resources within our network to support its continued development.
The structure of an Agile Learning Center is designed to nourish a productive, vibrant, and healthy culture – allowing participants to engage authentically in a learning process that cultivates confidence, dynamic skill sets, mental agility, self-awareness, and group skills.
Agile Learning Centers do not have a traditional curriculum, as in a set of subjects or classes one must take. Instead, we recognize that all social environments have a hidden curriculum which are the real lessons taught by the way social interactions are structured. So we have been conscious to craft the lessons of our environment. These are the lessons we've built into our “curriculum:”
- Identifying your own needs and priorities,
- Creating projects which accomplish those priorities,
- Organizing your time and activities around those projects,
- Focus and follow through on those projects toward a creative end,
- Sharing your creative output (in a digital portfolio),
- Reflecting on personal progress and impediments (in a personal blog),
- Co-creating a collaborative, supportive social environment,
- Responsibility for your action and inaction
- and Digital literacy
Agile Learning Facilitator (ALF) Intensive
Why?
We believe that when it comes to teaching and learning, the medium is the message. In order to teach honesty, respect, authenticity, initiative, self-direction, follow-through, purpose, and shareable value, you must embody these traits.
We are expanding our network of learning communities and facilitators. To support this development we are providing an opportunity for educators, entrepreneurs, and other passionate people to engage a culture creation process together — to learn about the the tools and practices we use, and invent new ones to produce the desired results.
What?
The ALF Intensive program will be held in Charlotte, NC for three weeks beginning on Monday, July 7th.
Week 1 (Agile Intensive):
Participants gain a deeper understanding of the “why” and “how” of the ALC project, and dive right into core concepts that create coherence for this work. Together, we will create and embody the cultural values and social DNA of an Agile Learning Center. Each participant will be fully responsible for showing up, being present, adding value, and co-creating together.
Week 2 (Hands-on Engagement):
After spending a week culture hacking together, we will begin working with students in the context of an Agile Learning summer camp, hosted by our ALC here in Charlotte — The Mosaic School (TMS). ALFs will facilitate the camp and gain direct experience with the ALC model.
Week 3 (Reflection and Refinement):
The third week of our intensive offers new ALFs the opportunity to pull back and reflect on their experience. The TMS summer camp will continue running with our experienced ALFs, while new participants will get to flex their culture-hacking muscles by evolving or inventing tools to shift results within the camp. We will wrap up with a process for acknowledging each other’s value and identifying next steps in each participant's personal evolution.
Who?
The Agile Learning Facilitators Intensive is for adults who would like to gain the tools and experience base needed to:
- Upgrade your organization with Agile Learning Center principles
- Work as a facilitator in an Agile Learning community
- Begin the process of starting a new Agile Learning Center
When?
July 7-25, 2014
Details:
This camp is open to adults ages 18 to infinity.
The cost is $375 for a three week program, food is provided. If you are traveling from outside of Charlotte, we can arrange for a family to host your stay in the city.
