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\n\tAgile Learning Centers<\/span><\/big><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tWhy?<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 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.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat?<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAgile 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.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 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.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAgile 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:”<\/span>\n<\/p>\n