Honeycomb Model
Our model reflects what we know about learning as an autonomous process.
The i4PL Honeycomb Model 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.
Whether big or small, educational shifts can be difficult to set into motion because they are often approached in a 'where do I start?' or 'everything all at once' manner. The Honeycomb provides a structure for educators to positively and intentionally shift their practice by identifying entry points that resonate with them and recognizing areas where they are already acting as learner-centered educators.
The Four Layers of the Honeycomb Model
Essential Foundation
Essential Foundation
The heart of our model is composed of four 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.
Elements of This Layer
Competency-Based Progress
Learner progress and advancement is based on demonstrated competency in pre-defined, agreed-upon learning targets aligned to standards. Move from legacy practice where students advance through grade levels based on seat time and credits to learner-centered practice where learners progress and advance based on demonstrated competency in pre-defined, agreed-upon learning targets aligned to standards.
Resources for Your Practice
- Read 'Proficiency-Based Learning: A Roadmap for Educators' | Source: Great Schools Partnership
- Read 'Are You Putting Learners First? Here are 8 Ways to Check Yourself' | Source: Getting Smart
Customized Learning Paths
Learners are actively involved in what they learn, how they learn it, and how they demonstrate understanding. The unique path is based on the learner's individual readiness, strengths, needs and goals. Move from legacy practice where all students follow virtually the same prescribed learning path to learner-centered practice where learners are actively involved in what they learn, how they learn it, and how they demonstrate understanding. The unique path is based on the learner's individual readiness, strengths, needs and goals.
Resources for Your Practice
- Watch the YouTube video, 'Customized Learning Path' | Source: i4PL and the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
- Read 'Making Sense of Learning Pathways: How to use the South Carolina Framework for Personalized Learning component in your student-centered classroom' | Source: KnowledgeWorks
Learner Agency
Learners take on an active role in the learning process. They have the power and ownership over their own learning path and the results of their choices. Move from legacy practice where students passively receive the content of a lesson or unit to learner-centered practice where learners take on an active role in the learning process. They have the power and ownership over their own learning path and the results of their choices.
Resources for Your Practice
- Read 'What Do You Mean When You Say “Student Agency"?' | Source: Education Reimagined
- Watch the YouTube video, 'Student-Centered Learning: Building Agency and Engagement' | Source: Edutopia
Learner Profile
Comprehensive, data-rich learner profiles convey a deep understanding of the learner and are used to plan a customized learning path and instructional strategies. They are dynamic, real-time, learner-owned and managed. Move from legacy practice where little is known about or applied to leverage each student’s strengths, readiness and learning modalities to learner-centered practice where comprehensive, data-rich learner profiles convey a deep understanding of the learner and are used to plan a customized learning path and instructional strategies. They are dynamic, real-time, learner-owned and managed.
Resources for Your Practice
- Read 'Learner Profiles: What are they, why are they important and how can you get started co-creating them?' | Source: KnowledgeWorks
- Read '5 Ways Learner Profiles Can Promote Competency-Based Education' | Source: Getting Smart
Learning & Teaching
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.
The blank piece encourages stakeholders to add elements of their own to support the unique needs of their learning spaces.
Elements of This Layer
- Conferring & Conferencing
- Culturally Responsive & Relevant
- Curiosity-Driven Learning
- Evidence as Assessment of Learning
- Inclusive Classroom Practice
- Integration of Essential Skills
- Learner Choice
- Learner Voice
- Learning Progressions
- Multiple Instructional Methods and Modes
- Personal Learning Goals
- Small Group Learning
- Standards-Guided Learning
- Timely, Actionable Feedback
Conferring & Conferencing
Conferring and conferencing for the purpose of goal reflection, progress monitoring, and planning next steps in learning. This can occur with educators, peers or other experts. Move from legacy practice where teachers assess learning and progress without the learner to learner-centered practice where conferring and conferencing happen for the purpose of goal reflection, progress monitoring, and planning next steps in learning. This can occur with educators, peers or other experts.
Resources for Your Practice
- Read 'One-on-One Conferencing: Providing individual support to students to promote personal growth' | Source: The Learning Accelerator
Culturally Responsive & Relevant
Learners are provided opportunities to engage with content through various cultural lenses and perspectives, and draw from their own cultural background to build their learning. Move from legacy practice where content is typically presented within a narrow, pre-defined cultural context to learner-centered practice where learners are provided opportunities to engage with content through various cultural lenses and perspectives, and draw from their own cultural background to build their learning.
Resources for Your Practice
- Watch the YouTube video, 'Education Buzzwords Defined: What is Culturally Responsive Teaching?' | Source: Edutopia
- Read '5 Ways to Create Relevant Cultures of Learning' | Source: A Principal's Reflections Blog by Eric Sheninger
- Read 'Culturally Responsive Teaching: 4 Misconceptions' | Source: Cult of Pedagogy
Curiosity-Driven Learning
Learners follow interests and passions that move beyond the accumulation of content knowledge and towards deep exploration of topics driven by curiosity, personal relevance, and wonder. Move from legacy practice where assigned learning tasks are standardized and strictly aligned to content to learner-centered practice where learners follow interests and passions that move beyond the accumulation of content knowledge and towards deep exploration of topics driven by curiosity, personal relevance, and wonder.
Resources for Your Practice
- Read 'The Business Case for Curiosity' | Source: Harvard Business Review
- Read the paper, 'Preparing Students for a Project-Based World' | Source: Getting Smart
- Read 'You Get Four Items and Forty-Five Minutes. What Will You Make?' | Source: Dr. John Spencer
- Read 'How to Ease Students Into Independent Inquiry Projects' | Source: KQED
- Read 'How to Create A Project Based Learning Lesson' | Source: Cult of Pedagogy
Evidence as Assessment of Learning
Evidence of learning is a balanced assessment system used throughout the learning process through varied means such as performance, application, demonstration and student interaction. Move from legacy practice where learning is assumed to be a by-product of content and skill development. Assessments are typically high-stakes, taken on a single day, not aligned to the real world, and often are indirect measures of learning to learner-centered practice where evidence of learning is a balanced assessment system used throughout the learning process through varied means such as performance, application, demonstration and student interaction.
Resources for Your Practice
- Read 'Uncovering the True Purpose of Assessment' | Source: Learner-Centered Collaborative
- Read 'Assessment: What Improves Learning and What Hinders It?' | Source: Dr. Katie Martin
- Read 'Students Should Share Their Process, Not Just Their Product' | Source: Dr. John Spencer
- Watch the YouTube video, 'Five Keys to Comprehensive Assessment' | Source: Edutopia
Inclusive Classroom Practice
Promote a safe and welcoming environment where all learners have the opportunity to be included in the general education classroom, regardless of cognitive or academic level and where individual differences are valued, embraced, and evident. Move from legacy practice where Students are "pulled out" to participate in learning activities separate from their regular classroom learning environment to receive specialized instruction or support to learner-centered practice that promotes a safe and welcoming environment where all learners have the opportunity to be included in the general education classroom, regardless of cognitive or academic level and where individual differences are valued, embraced, and evident.
Resources for Your Practice
- Watch the YouTube video, 'Inclusion 2.0: Teaching to Diversity' | Source: Five Moore Minutes
- Read 'How to Improve Students with Disabilities' Sense of Belonging' | Source: Edutopia
- Read 'How do I strategically instruct students with learning disabilities​​ in a personalized learning classroom?' | Source: The Learning Accelerator
Integration of Essential Skills
Learners engaging in daily opportunities to practice and grow in skills and dispositions needed to be successful in life and work. Move from legacy practice where daily learning focuses only on the development of content knowledge to learner-centered practice where learners engage in daily opportunities to practice and grow in skills and dispositions needed to be successful in life and work.
Resources For Your Practice
- Read the 'Future of Jobs Report 2023' | Source: World Economic Forum
- Read 'How Students Develop the Skills & Competencies in a Portrait of a Graduate' | Source: NexGen Learning
- Read the paper, 'The Future of Learning: Redefining Readiness from the Inside Out' | Source: KnowledgeWorks
- Watch the video, 'Portrait of a Graduate' | Source: What School Could Be
Learner Choice
Learners make intentional and purposeful choices about what they learn, how they learn it, and/or how their learning is demonstrated. Move from legacy practice where students have limited choice about their educational experience to learner-centered practice where learners make intentional and purposeful choices about what they learn, how they learn it, and/or how their learning is demonstrated.
Resources for Your Practice
- Read 'Continuum of Choice: More Than a Menu of Options' | Source: Kathleen McClaskey
- Read 'Taking Choice Menus to the Next Level for Student Ownership' | Source: Dr. John Spencer
- Read '10 Ways to Incorporate Student Choice in Your Classroom' | Source: Dr. John Spencer
Learner Voice
Learners can freely ask questions and provide ideas/input that drives what they learn, how they learn, and/or how they demonstrate their learning. Move from legacy practice where students have limited input into decisions affecting their educational experience to learner-centered practice where learners can freely ask questions and provide ideas/input that drives what they learn, how they learn, and/or how they demonstrate their learning.
Resources for Your Practice
- Read 'Student-Led Conferences: Resources for Educators' | Source: Edutopia
- Read 'My 5 Favorite Class Discussion Strategies' | Source: Trevor Muir
Learning Progressions
Progressions outline competency across a skill, concept or standard. They provide a roadmap to support flexibility in pace and learner agency. Move from legacy practice where traditional grades are based on points and averages to learner-centered practice where progressions outline competency across a skill, concept or standard. They provide a roadmap to support flexibility in pace and learner agency.
Resources for Your Practice
- Read 'Learning progressions: Pathways for 21st century teaching and learning' | Source: Brookings Institute
- Read 'The role of learning progressions in global scales' | Source: Brookings Institute
- Watch the YouTube video, 'Learning Scales: Part 3 How to Introduce Learning Scales to Students' | Source: Pasco County Schools Office for Leading and Learning
- Download the template, 'Developing grade-level learning progressions' | Source: Oregon Department of Education
Multiple Instructional Methods and Modes
Instruction is offered using a variety of methods and modes in response to learner profiles. Move from legacy practice where instruction is largely face-to-face and delivered to large groups regardless of varying readiness, strengths, needs, and interests to learner-centered practice where instruction is offered using a variety of methods and modes in response to learner profiles.
Resources for Your Practice
- Watch the YouTube video, 'Redesigning the school day at KIPP LA using a Station Rotation model' | Source: Khan Academy Brasil
- Read 'Choice Boards, Playlists, Pathways...Oh My!' | Source: EdElements
Personal Learning Goals
Learners and educators co-develop purposeful, personalized goals to provide benchmarks and add focus, clarity, and commitment to learning. Move from legacy practice where teachers identify expectations of what whole classes of students should be able to know and do to learner-centered practice where learners and educators co-develop purposeful, personalized goals to provide benchmarks and add focus, clarity, and commitment to learning.
Resources for Your Practice
- Read the paper, 'Student Goal Setting: An Evidence-Based Practice' | Source: Midwest Comprehensive Center at American Institute for Research
- Read 'How Personal Goals Steer Students Toward Success' | Source: ASCD
- Read 'Embracing the New Year: Five Approaches to Goal-Setting and Growth in the Classroom' | Source: Dr. John Spencer
Small Group Learning
A learning configuration that exists in order to provide targeted instruction based on readiness, needs and interests of learners. Move from legacy practice where students are arranged into static groups based on characteristics such as age, gender, or perceived ability or disability to learner-centered practice where a learning configuration that exists in order to provide targeted instruction based on readiness, needs and interests of learners.
Resources for Your Practice
- Read 'FAQ: Station Rotation Model' | Source: Dr. Catlin Tucker
- Read 'Making Cooperative Learning Work Better' | Source: Cult of Pedagogy
- Read 'How to Use Learning Stations in a High School Classroom' | Source: Learning in Room 213
Standards-Guided Learning
Learners understand and articulate how proficiencies/ competencies align to standards and drive their learning experiences. Move from legacy practice where teachers use standards to drive instruction to learner-centered practice where learners understand and articulate how proficiencies/ competencies align to standards and drive their learning experiences.
Resources for Your Practice
Timely, Actionable Feedback
Frequent and actionable feedback from educators, peers and/or other experts that empowers the learner to execute next steps on their learning progression. Move from legacy practice where feedback is infrequent, delayed, and static to learner-centered practice where frequent and actionable feedback from educators, peers and/or other experts that empowers the learner to execute next steps on their learning progression.
Resources for Your Practice
- Read 'Moving from Feedback to Feedforward' | Source: Cult of Pedagogy
- Watch the YouTube video, 'How to Get ACTIONABLE Peer Feedback in 20 Minutes' | Source: Dr. John Spencer
- Read 'Keep, Start, Stop: A Student Feedback Strategy' | Source: Dr. Catlin Tucker
Roles, Relationships & Structures
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.
The blank piece encourages stakeholders to add elements of their own to support the unique needs of their community.
Elements of This Layer
- Co-Designers of Assessment
- Co-Designers of Learning
- Community as a Resource
- Educator as a Coach
- Families as a Resource
- Learners as a Resource
Co-Designers of Assessment
Learners and educators collaborate to determine evidence of learning. Learners play an active role in the understanding, planning, and demonstration of learning. Move from legacy practice where teachers design assessments and give them to a whole class of students to learner-centered practice where learners and educators collaborate to determine evidence of learning. Learners play an active role in the understanding, planning, and demonstration of learning.
Resources for Your Practice
- Watch the YouTube video, 'Songs for Biology: Students Write Hip Hop to Learn Science' | Source: PBS NewsHour
- Read 'What Happens When Students Design Their own Assessments?' | Source: EducationWeek
- Read 'When Students Design the Assessment, Everyone Wins' | Source: EducationWeek
- Read 'Supporting Student-Initiated Assessment: "Low-tech" system to prompt assessments without interrupting learning of group' | Source: Learning Accelerator
- Read 'Build it Together: Co-Constructing Success Criteria with Students' | Source: Cult of Pedagogy
Co-Designers of Learning
Learners and educators collaborate to design learning experiences based on the learner's academic and/or skill based readiness. Move from legacy practice where teachers are responsible for managing all aspects of their students' learning experience to learner-centered practice where learners and educators collaborate to design learning experiences based on the learner's academic and/or skill based readiness.
Resources for Your Practice
- Read 'Students as Users, Designers, and Co-creators of Learning' | Source: Next Gen Learning
- Read 'Students Co-Authoring Their Own Learning' | Source: Getting Smart
Community as a Resource
Stakeholders collaborate to fully leverage resources and expertise to maximize the learning experience for all. Move from legacy practice where involvement by the community in the education system is limited with few connections between concepts learned in the classroom and life outside of school to learner-centered practice where stakeholders collaborate to fully leverage resources and expertise to maximize the learning experience for all.
Resources for Your Practice
- Read 'Building Strong Community Partnerships and Schools: A roadmap for finding champions and collaborators' | Source: Harvard Education Review
- Watch the video, 'Building a Culture of Kindness with a Day of Service' | Source: Edutopia
- Watch the video, 'Local Issues Make Science Learning Meaningful' | Source: Edutopia
- Visit the Skype a Scientist website to connect with experts across the globe.
Educator as a Coach
Educators are guides as they coach alongside learners to achieve shared goals. Coaches provide resources and support flexibly to ensure learner success. Move from legacy practice where educators identify problems and provide advice and solutions to learner-centered practice where educators are guides as they coach alongside learners to achieve shared goals. Coaches provide resources and support flexibly to ensure learner success.
Resources for Your Practice
- Read 'When Teachers Act as Coaches, Everyone Comes Out a Winner' | Source: The 74
- Read 'Thinking Like a Coach' | Source: Edutopia
- Read 'The Role of the Educator as Coach' | Source: LinkedIn
Families as a Resource
Family input is reflected in the school design and learner experience. Collaboration between families and educators support learners in both school and home learning environments. Move from legacy practice where family relationships generally focus on home support for a standardized curriculum, report cards, and school events to learner-centered practice where family input is reflected in the school design and learner experience. Collaboration between families and educators support learners in both school and home learning environments.
Resources for Your Practice
- Read 'What the research says about the best way to engage parents' | Source: The Hechinger Report
- Read '10 Strategies for Schools to Improve Parent Engagement' | Source: Getting Smart
Learners as a Resource
Learners are valued partners and a resource for their own learning and the learning of others. Learning is driven based on readiness, strengths, needs, and interests. Move from legacy practice where students are seen as empty vessels to be filled with knowledge by the teacher. Instruction is outside-in to learner-centered practice where learners are valued partners and a resource for their own learning and the learning of others. Learning is driven based on readiness, strengths, needs, and interests.
Resources for Your Practice
- Read 'Collaborative learning approaches' | Source: Education Endowment Foundation
- Watch the video, '60-Second Strategy: Math Partners' | Source: Edutopia
- Read 'Encouraging Students to Learn from Each Other' | Source: Tufts University
Learner-Centered Systems
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.
Elements of This Layer
- Anytime, Anywhere Evidence of Learning
- Aspirational Vision
- Culture of Innovation
- Educator Agency
- Integrated Data Ecosystem
- Learner-Centered Human Capital
- Learner-Centered Structures
- Learner-Centered Systemic Policies
- Learner-Driven Technology
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. Move from legacy practice credit is confined to learning that is associated with formal instruction to learner-centered practice where 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.
Resources for Your Practice
- Watch the YouTube video, 'Heather Cole Talks About Extended Learning Opportunities' | Source: Nellie Mae Education Foundation
- Read 'What is Place-Based Education and Why Does it Matter?' | Source: Getting Smart
Aspirational Vision
A co-created illustration that describes a future to which the organization aspires. Move from legacy practice where the district has an outdated vision/mission and may not reflect the collective community to learner-centered practice where a co-created illustration that describes a future to which the organization aspires.
Resources for Your Practice
- Read the manual, 'Communicating a Shared Vision for Students and Education' | Source: Hewlett Deeper Learning
- Read 'Aligning Around a Common Vision for Learning' | Source: Learner-Centered Collaborative
Culture of Innovation
Leaders nurture a culture where risk is encouraged, agency is rampant, expectations are high, and iteration is continuous. Move from legacy practice where decisions about the district and its schools are mostly made by leadership with little opportunity for input and/or collaboration, maintaining the status quo is encouraged, and following process and procedures is rewarded to learner-centered practice where leaders nurture a culture where risk is encouraged, agency is rampant, expectations are high, and iteration is continuous.
Resources for Your Practice
- Read 'Essential Learning: Leadership for Learning' | Source: Leading with the Learning
- Watch the YouTube video, 'Harvard Business School's Linda Hill: How collaborative leadership delivers sustainable innovation' | Source: Harvard Business School
- Read 'Discover and develop leadership talent hiding in plain sight' | Source: SmartBrief
Educator Agency
Evaluation, professional development and teaming support educator risk-taking and growth to meet the aspirational vision of a personalized and competency-based system. Move from legacy practice where accountability systems are based on traditional achievement measures to learner-centered practice where evaluation, professional development and teaming support educator risk-taking and growth to meet the aspirational vision of a personalized and competency-based system.
Resources for Your Practice
- Read '16 Ways to Own Your Professional Learning' | Source: Dr. John Spencer
- Watch the video, 'The Role of Coaching in Developing Playful Lessons' | Source: Edutopia
Integrated Data Ecosystem
Data management systems are transparent, real-time and easily accessible to all stakeholders to support each learner’s progress and goals. Move from legacy practice where data repositories and sources are fragmented, difficult to access and use, and not available to students to learner-centered practice where data management systems are transparent, real-time and easily accessible to all stakeholders to support each learner's progress and goals.
Resources for Your Practice
- Read 'How to Share Data with Families' | Source: ASCD
- Read 'Using Data: Engaging Students' | Source: EL Education
- Read 'Making Students Partners in Data-Driven Approaches to Learning' | Source: KQED
Learner-Centered Human Capital
Organizations utilize adults in roles aligned to the goals of learners and the design of the system. Move from legacy practice where the traditional staffing model is highly structured, with one teacher to a cohort of 20 to 30 students to learner-centered practice where organizations utilize adults in roles aligned to the goals of learners and the design of the system.
Resources for Your Practice
- Read 'Getting Clearer: Stakeholders At The Heart of Education' | Source: Getting Smart
- Read the paper, 'Innovative Staffing to Personalize Learning: How new teaching roles and blended learning help students succeed' | Source: The Clayton Christensen Institute & Public Impact
- Read the paper, 'Toward the Structural Transformation of Schools: Innovations in Staffing' | Source: American Institutes for Research
Learner-Centered Structures
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 for Your Practice
- Read 'Having our cake and eating it too' | Source: Education Reimagined
- Read 'Innovative High School Schedules' | Source: Getting Smart
- Read the paper, 'Credentialed Learning for All' | Source: Getting Smart
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 for Your Practice
- Access the report, 'State Policies to Support Student-Centered Learning' | Source: Education Commission of the States
- Read 'Exploring Existing Policies that Present Possibilities to Support Ecosystem Design' | Source: Education Reimagined
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. Move from legacy practice where technology is used primarily as a substitute for, or augmentation of, existing tasks to learner-centered practice where 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.
Resources for Your Practice
- Access the report, '2023 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report: Teaching & Learning Edition' | Source: Educause
- Explore the 'Triple-E Framework for Tech Integration' website | Source: Liz Kolb
- Watch the YouTube video, 'Empowered Learner - 1B: Customized Learning Environments (ISTE Standards for Students)' | Source: ISTE
- Read '10 Ways to Use EdTech to Elevate Learning' | Source: Alice Keeler
Find Your Entry Points
Boot Camp: Getting Started with Learner-Centered Practice
A virtual, LIVE workshop to help your team kick off their learner-centered journey. Discover essential concepts and strategies that help empower learners and start identifying the entry-points that best fit your school or district's unique aspirations and goals.
Learner-Centered Site Visits
A unique opportunity to tour schools in the Milwaukee or St. Louis area. This experience includes facilitated professional learning time to help educators and leaders develop concrete strategies for implementing effective learner-centered practices in their own classrooms and district.