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Certified Agile Classrooms Teacher*
You want to nurture future-ready skills in your students but struggle with:
- Implementing Authentic 21st Century Tools & Strategies: You want to equip your classroom with practical and authentic tools and strategies but don’t know where to start.
- Managing Group Dynamics: You understand the value of group work but struggle with the drama that can arise when students work together.
- Balancing Priorities: You aim to develop your students’ skills while meeting mandated standards, but find it challenging to strike a balance.
- Creating a Safe Space for Innovation: You’re eager to bring innovation into your classroom, but the challenge of maintaining a safe, structured learning environment and managing the perceptions of administrators and parents can be daunting.
- Empowering Students: You want to give your students more control over their learning but fear it might lead to chaos.
- Feeling Overwhelmed: You’re committed to improving your teaching methods but feel overwhelmed with figuring it all out on your own.
The 3-Part Agile Classroom Framework
In just three simple steps, we’ll help you get from struggling to celebrating success.
Make Learning Visible
Make the learning process, progress, and working agreements visible.
Facilitate Learning Sprints
Guide students through brief, iterative cycles that incorporate five key learning routines.
Grow Collaboration & Choice
Progressively scaffold your students’ ability to take charge of their own learning and collaborate effectively in groups.
Learning Objectives
What is Agile In Education?
Learn the principles underpinning Agile in Education and how it develops authentic 21st-century skills.
Forming Student Groups That Work
Learn how to form durable cross-strength teams for collaboration that actually works.
Tools To Make Learning Visible
You will leave with practical tools to make learning visible, including the Learning Alliance, The Learning Backlog, and the Learning Canvas.
The Learning Sprint
Facilitate the five self-directed learning routines in the Learning Sprint, short cycles that result in demonstrating proficiency and feedback.
Grow Collaboration
Collaboration is a skill that can be developed. Learn to scaffold groupwork by using the Spectrum of Collaboration.
Grow Choice
Student independence is a skill that can be developed. Learn to scaffold self-direction by using the Spectrum of Choice.
Meet Your Guide
Laura Williams
Laura is your resident authentic learning expert, co-facilitates the Iowa Authentic Learning Network for the Iowa AEAs, and is the founder of the Authentic Learning Alliance. She also is a Project Manager on a statewide project board for PK-12 Students across Iowa as part of her AEA role. She spends much of her time facilitating high-quality professional learning experiences to support educators in authentic projects.
Laura is a Certified Scrum Master(CSM) and Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) and loves project management. Over the past 10 years, she’s dedicated herself to transforming education through incorporating authentic learning experiences with area partnerships into PK-12 classrooms as an educator, consultant, and 21st Century Learning Specialist. She believes that education can be “the great equalizer” if we can leverage our student’s interests and passions.
Her educational background includes B.A. in Interdepartmental Health Studies: Emphasis on Multidisciplinary Sciences, M.A.T. in Secondary Science Education, and Principal Licensure and M.A. in Ed. Leadership and Policy Studies.
WHAT'S INCLUDED?
Become a Certified Agile Classrooms Teacher
The Certified Agile Classrooms Teacher credential is a symbol that you are a champion of student choice and collaboration. As a recognized innovative educator, you will inspire others to do the same.
Experience An Agile Classroom
Use the Visible Classroom tools and practice the 5 Agile Learning Routines to iteratively with a hands-on team project!
Resources
Access to a growing library of templates, protocols, and tools to make learning visible and facilitate Agile Learning Routines with your students.
Expert Guidance
Throughout the course, get live support, answers, and feedback from someone with real experience and a depth of expertise.
Exclusive Access to Methods Mentor Sessions
As an alumni, you will have exclusive access to our frequent Methods Mentor sessions, where you can learn new practices and approaches, and receive advice from experts and other professionals.
Casy Hitchcok
Jacqueline York
Laura Richards
Ruth Harris
Tearra Bobula
Jenn Obrien
With the Agile Classrooms Framework you can help students to:
- Set their own goals and objectives
- Use insights from prior learning to inform future learning goals
- Interpret what they want to learn and what they need to learn
- Manage scope of work and learning in relation to time constraints
- Apply initiative and self-direction
- Articulate need for support through self-advocacy
- Be accountable to self and others
- Practice effective conflict resolution skills
- Develop strategies for giving and receiving critical feedback
- Curate a toolkit of self-reflection tools
- Apply problem-solving strategies
As a Certified Agile Classrooms Teacher, you can:
- Demonstrate your knowledge through the gold standard for agile in education.
- Be recognized as an innovative educator.
- Intentionally scaffold student autonomy and collaboration.
- Know you are making a difference by providing students with skills that are in high demand.
- Spend less time on classroom management and more time doing what brings you joy as a teacher as students.
- Better collaborate with colleagues and lead change outside of the classroom with the skills you gain.
- Inspire others to become champions of student choice and collaboration.
Innovating For Your Students Should Not Be So Darn Hard!
As an educator, your goal is to equip your students with the skills they need for the future. This involves nurturing practical, real-world skills while adhering to educational standards. However, innovating within a school environment can be daunting and risky without the right resources and strategies. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Agile Classrooms has been helping teachers integrate Agile principles, a gold standard in business innovation, into student learning for over a decade.
With the Agile Classrooms Framework, students gain more control over their education and learn to collaborate effectively, acquiring valuable life and career skills. As a teacher, you’ll have more time for activities that bring you joy, like building strong relationships with your students. This course will show you how to empower your students without losing control.
- Make Learning Visible: Utilize tools that make the learning process and student progress transparent. This visibility enhances student engagement, focus, and motivation, making it easier for them to understand and internalize their learning journey.
- Facilitate Learning Sprints: Guide your students through short iterative cycles consisting of five self-directed learning routines known as a Learning Sprint. These sprints provide clear procedures for student self-direction and collaboration, offering students a structured way to steer their own learning.
- Grow Collaboration and Choice: Gradually scaffold your students’ ability to manage their own learning and work effectively in groups. This scaffolding creates a safe environment for you and your students to innovate. As students progress through successive Learning Sprints, you can gradually increase their level of choice and collaboration. Prepare to be amazed by what your students can achieve.
Agile Classrooms provides a framework that allows you to innovate safely in your classroom. So why wait? Enroll in the Certified Agile Classrooms Teacher course today. In the meantime, gain access to our free Agile Educator Guide and other practical resources to support you on this journey.
Innovating in a school can be time-consuming and risky without the right support. We have helped many educators around the world: