CASE
Pleasant View Elementary School District
Transforming a rural public school into an innovative global model involved the co-creation of an Arc of Learning – incorporating collaborative practices, redesigned curriculum, and leadership training for active learning.
It also included adopting Project-Based Learning for financial literacy, along with assessments and cross-curricular projects, all aimed at achieving self efficacy for real-life readiness education.
Context
The District – situated in Porterville (Tulare, CA) – identified the need to introduce real life skills into early age pedagogical best practices to create positive transformational impact in the region.
The UN 2030 17 SDGs were added to the curriculum design, with FINANCIAL LITERACY as the overarching theme.
The project centers around 5 SDGs, evening out equitable opportunites for the predominantely LatinX community.
Purpose & Goals
Enable a historical change in education.
Life Readiness: prepare young people to thrive in society.
Facilitate competency and content mastery through PBL & Active Learning Methodologies.
Impact Audit & Certification through SROI: forecasting and measuring purpose based social impacts & outcomes as well as tangible economic results.
Transformative changes co-deployed for teacher development and improvement.
Teacher Professional Development
Our methodology focuses on learning, and this applies to the teachers as well.
SHIFT the assessments
Transitioning to a proficiency-level skills assessment approach alongside traditional grading, for self-sustainable results.
[Output: 360 Formative Assessment]
ADAPT PBL & Active learning lesson planning + assignments
Focused on pre-planning goals and tasks, then sharing the roadmap with all teachers and administration.
[Output: Lesson Planning & Collaborative Practices Enhancement]
CLARIFY the meaning of Real-Life objectives
Prioritizing learning outcomes over mere compliance.
[Output: Application of WEF Skills]
TRANSFORM the classroom’s outreach
Adding real-life contents and context through project-based learning enhanced techniques.
[Output: Implementation of Project-Based Learning]
ALTER decision-making
Fostering autonomy in both teachers and students.
[Output: Self-Efficacy Enhancement]
REVOLUTIONIZE teamwork dynamics
Bolstering collaboration through shared Arc of Learning and Overarching Theme definitions.
[Output: Facilitating Adult Collaboration]
