The Honeycomb Model reflects what we know about learning as an autonomous process. It starts with a deep understanding of the learner and their skills, interests and goals, and expands to include all educational stakeholders as they build a personalized, competency-based pathway to becoming a lifelong empowered learner.
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Essential Foundation
The heart of our model is composed of four (4) key elements that place the learner at the center and focus on the development of empowered learners. These core elements guide the development of an Empowered Learner at the center and focus on the aspirational graduate of our educational systems.
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Learning & Teaching
The fourteen elements in this layer represent instructional practices that create and support opportunities for the model’s core elements. This layer was intentionally designed with the greatest number of elements, as each practice provides a new entry point for starting or continuing the work. Classroom educators have the greatest level of autonomy and potential impact in this layer of the Honeycomb.
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Roles, Relationships & Structures
The six elements in this layer identify the roles that learners, educators, and community members play in a personalized, competency-based education system. They describe healthy relationships between stakeholders that catalyze learner growth and achievement. They also address structures that support everyone in their roles and enable learning relationships to flourish. The elements in this layer offer opportunities for coaches, assistant principals, specialists and other educator support staff to impact the learning experience.
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Learner-Centered Systems
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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