Agile Learning Centers

Hello Josh

Thanks for your reply, it is really helpfull. Yes, I think that in the long run what will work is that sense of ownership for a space. We will try to implement this to see how it will work. I agree also that we should try to avoid external rewards because we don´t want to fall into conditioning.

Have a good day

Bye

Guillermo,

I hope this is helpful.  At my schools I’ve had success with giving ownership, or stewardship of spaces to students.  Unpacking this a little, it means they have both authority over and responsibility for a space.  Perhaps they are in charge of the art room.  They decide how it’s organized (with input from other stakeholders, hop…[Read more]

Great. Glad Rebecka is there working with you all 🙂

We are planning to redesign ALC Membership (and member benefits) in early 2017. To this point, we’ve reserved the full access to all our documents on Google Drive to folks who have been through and ALF Summer training experience with us. We may wind up creating different folders with different…[Read more]

Hey Tomis

Thanks for your reply.

I am looking for ways to make cleaning and ordering fun and easy for kids.

Yes! Rebecka is going to be helping us implement the tools and other things. We talked about this topic and came up with some ideas.

On another topic, Rebecka told me that you have a database in Trello and google docs about many topics…[Read more]

Hi Guillermo,

I’m not sure there are any tools and practices that will magically instill cleanliness and order in at an ALC, unless I’m misunderstanding your questions.

Are you saying you’re having trouble getting students to participate in cleaning up? Or are you asking about tools for making visible what cleaning needs to get done?

Can you…[Read more]