The nine leadership-focused elements in this layer are designed to guide districts in creating the conditions necessary for a learner-centered environment to thrive. The modular structure of this layer addresses key shifts across all areas of the organization that act as levers for transformation with a common thread of building and supporting learner and educator agency. Elements of the i4PL Leading Learner-Centered Education model are integrated into this area of the Honeycomb. Typically, this is where administrators, school boards, and government representatives can have the greatest level of impact.
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Explore This Layer
Click the dropdowns below to compare the legacy and learner-centered mindsets of the Learner-Centered Systems elements, and explore resources that support each one.
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Anytime, Anywhere Evidence of Learning
Recognizing growth in skills and knowledge through evidence collected within and beyond the school walls. The system honors learning that occurs across all aspects of a learner's life.
A co-created illustration that describes a future to which the organization aspires.
Leaders nurture a culture where risk is encouraged, agency is rampant, expectations are high, and iteration is continuous.
Evaluation, professional development and teaming support educator risk-taking and growth to meet the aspirational vision of a personalized and competency-based system.
Integrated Data Ecosystem
Data management systems are transparent, real-time and easily accessible to all stakeholders to support each learner’s progress and goals.
Learner-Centered Human Capital
Organizations utilize adults in roles aligned to the goals of learners and the design of the system.
Learner-Centered Structures
Organizational structures are designed to support learners through flexibility in use of time, pace of advancement, and use of physical spaces.
| Move from legacy practice where students are expected to progress at the same rate within a prescribed amount of time (time is the constant; learning is the variable) and traditional classrooms and furniture may limit flexible grouping and inhibit interaction to learner-centered practice where organizational structures are designed to support learners through flexibility in use of time, pace of advancement, and use of physical spaces. |
Resources to support your practice:
Having our cake and eating it too
Source: Education Reimagined
Innovative High School Schedules
Source: Getting Smart
Credentialed Learning for All
Source: Getting Smart
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Learner-Centered Systemic Policies
Leaders will align local policy to remove barriers and support the depth and sustainability of a learner-centered system. Leaders will challenge the state and national policies that are not aligned to the aspirational vision and advocate for policies that are aligned.
| Move from legacy practice where leaders are informed of educational policy at the local, state, and national level and local policies inhibit learner-centered practices that have been identified to learner-centered practice where leaders will align local policy to remove barriers and support the depth and sustainability of a learner-centered system. Leaders will challenge the state and national policies that are not aligned to the aspirational vision and advocate for policies that are aligned. |
Resources to support your practice:
State Policies to Support Student-Centered Learning
Source: Education Commission of the States
Exploring Existing Policies that Present Possibilities to Support Ecosystem Design
Source: Education Reimagined
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Learner-Driven Technology
The learning drives the use of technology as learners determine what they learn, how they learn, and/or how they demonstrate learning. The technology enhances, deepens, or accelerates understanding and mastery of content.
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