The Landscape Model of Learning: Designing Student-Centered Experiences for Cognitive and Cultural Inclusion (Research-based teaching strategies for DEI and school improvement) - Softcover

Jennifer D. Klein; Kapono Ciotti

Softcover

ISBN 10: 195281295X ISBN 13: 9781952812958

Publisher: Solution Tree Press, 2022

Synopsis

Help students take the lead on reaching their own personal highest level of success by shifting from the current paradigm of education to create a more meaningful and inclusive learning ecosystem. This essential guide offers the landscape model and its three elements: understanding what students bring to the ecosystem, defining the horizon, and charting the pathway. Access practical strategies for drawing on students’ experiences and strengths to create a more meaningful and inclusive educational ecosystem.

Educators committed to lifelong learning, diversity, equity, and inclusion will:

• Retire the inadequate goal of access and move education toward the higher and more urgent, equitable goal of helping every student reach their highest possible level of individual success
• Embrace the concept of inclusive prosperity, which goes beyond diversity to accepting and supporting all students―their experiences, gifts, and challenges―to build communities where all students belong
• Receive practical, research-based strategies for developing agency and engagement so that students become the protagonists of their journey through the learning ecosystem
• Design systems for student protagonism by implementing student-centered strategies for cognitive and cultural inclusion
• Obtain reproducible tools to deepen understanding and implementation of the material
• Learn how to successfully implement the model despite common hurdles and potential challenges, such as traditional academic contexts and economically disenfranchised schools

Contents:
Introduction
Part 1: Understanding the Landscape Model
Chapter 1: The Landscape Model’s Three Elements
Chapter 2: Eight Guiding Principles
Part 2: Implementing the Landscape Model
Chapter 3: Element One: The Ecosystem
Chapter 4: Element Two: The Horizon
Chapter 5: Element Three: The Pathway
Part 3: Leading the Landscape Model
Chapter 6: Student Growth Assessment on the Landscape
Chapter 7: Challenges of Implementation
Chapter 8: Landscape Model Implementation for Long-Term Success
Chapter 9: Opportunities for the Future
Epilogue: Why This Work Matters
Appendix
References and Resources
Index

About this title

About the Author

Jennifer D. Klein, a product of experiential project-based education herself, spent nineteen years in the classroom and has a broad background in global education and partnership development, student-driven curricular strategies, inclusivity, and experiential, inquiry-driven learning. A former head of school with extensive international experience and over thirty years in education―including nineteen in the classroom―Jennifer facilitates dynamic, interactive workshops for teachers, leaders, and students, working to amplify student voice, to provide the tools for high-quality project-based learning in all cultural and socioeconomic contexts, and to shift school culture to support such practices. Jennifer is also committed to intersecting global project-based learning with culturally responsive and anti-racist teaching practices, and her experience includes deep work with schools seeking to address equity, take on brave conversations, build healthier community, and improve identity politics on campus.

Kapono Ciotti attributes his educational philosophy to his own schooling experience in a progressive, social-constructivist school during his early years in Honolulu, Hawaii. He taught in Honolulu, Hawaii, and Dakar, Senegal, for over a decade before moving into school leadership. Kapono has led schools in the United States and Egypt, where he put into practice the philosophy of “students making the world a better place,” shifting school culture to impact-based education practice. His strong belief in education being an act of social justice drives his work. Kapono has worked internationally in educational change organizations, leading the work of deeper learning and place and culture-based pedagogy. In these roles, he has trained teachers in over one hundred schools and school districts over four continents, impacting hundreds of thousands of students. In addition, Kapono spent fifteen years as national faculty for the National Association of Independent Schools in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice, facilitating national and international learning experiences. As a curriculum writer, he has authored multiple curricula for federal and nonprofit programs. His work has significantly contributed to the organizations What School Could Be, The Buck Institute, EdLeader21, The Pacific American Foundation, and many others.

Edition details

• Publisher: Solution Tree Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 195281295X
• ISBN 13: 9781952812958
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 312