Cover of the Agile Educator Guide for project-based learning, STEM, career and technical education, and work-based learning classrooms.

Give Students More Voice, Ownership, and Real-World Readiness

The Agile Educator Guide

A modern framework for developing self-directed, collaborative, and adaptive learners—ready for the real world.

💡 Why The Agile Educator Guide Matters

Teachers today are being asked to prepare students for a changing world. At the same time, they must manage standards, projects, and classroom dynamics.

Project-based learning, work-based learning, and student autonomy are powerful approaches, but they can feel chaotic without structure.

The Agile Educator Guide offers a clear path.

It is designed for project-based learning, science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), career and technical education (CTE), and work-based learning (WBL).

With this guide, students do more than complete tasks. They take ownership of learning.

🎧 Step Into the Thinking Behind the Guide

This isn’t just a guide. It’s a way of thinking about learning.

In this short audio segment, you’ll hear the why behind the routines—how they help students grow, collaborate, and own their learning in real classrooms.

Take a moment. Press play. Step into the purpose behind the practice.

🔍 What You’ll Walk Away With

The Agile Educator Guide includes ready-to-use tools and routines that bring structure to student-led learning. These elements help teachers support autonomy, collaboration, and career-ready skills without chaos.

Teacher and student pointing to a visual board, representing goal setting and progress tracking in Agile learning

Make Learning Visible

Utilize visual tools to create transparency in the learning process, helping students track their goals, progress, and feedback.
Two students  and a teacher smiling and using hand signals, representing iterative Agile learning routines in student-centered classrooms

Facilitate Learning Sprints

Implement iterative cycles with five self-directed routines, fostering self-management, continuous improvement, and collaboration.
Educator observing two students collaborating side-by-side, supporting teamwork through the Spectrum of Collaboration

Grow Collaboration

Scaffold teamwork and communication with the Spectrum of Collaboration, guiding students from working independently to thriving in team-based learning.
Educator coaching a student to make independent decisions, using a checkmark and X symbol to scaffold autonomy

Grow Choice

Incrementally increase student autonomy by scaffolding decision-making, empowering learners to take ownership of their learning journey.

📽️ Take a Peek Inside the Guide

Watch a quick flip-through of the Agile Educator Guide before downloading. You’ll see key routines, visuals, and structure—all designed to help students take ownership of their learning.

📘 What's Inside The Guide

  1. Introduction and Overview

    Understand how Agile principles can transform your classroom and why this guide was created for real educators, not theory.

  2. The Learning Sprint

    Explore a 5-step, repeatable routine that helps students plan, reflect, and self-direct their learning over time.

  3. Visible Learning Artifacts

    Use clear tools like Learning Backlogs, Success Criteria, and Sprint Boards to make progress visible and meaningful.

  4. Learning Sprint Routines

    Walk through routines like Planning, Check-Ins, Review, and Retrospective—designed to increase student ownership and collaboration.

  5. Spectrums of Choice and Collaboration

    Discover how to scaffold autonomy and teamwork with classroom-ready visuals that support gradual student growth.

👩‍🏫 This Guide Is Perfect For

🛠️ CTE and STEM teachers

📁 Educators using project-based or work-based learning

🧭 Instructional Coaches supporting student-centered classrooms

⚖️ Anyone trying to reduce micromanagement while increasing student ownership

🎓 Ready to Become an Agile Educator?

You’ve seen the guide. You’ve explored the routines. Now you’re ready to apply them with confidence.

Join our Certified Agile Classrooms Teacher (ACT) workshop to learn how to design and lead student-driven learning experiences that build self-direction, collaboration, and real-world readiness.

You’ll get hands-on practice, peer support, and tools you can use right away in your classroom.

🧠 Built by Educators. Grounded in Agile. Designed for the Real World.

The Agile Educator Guide isn’t Agile theory adapted for education. It was developed by educators and Agile experts working together inside real classrooms—not outside of them.

“This wasn’t adapted to fit education. It was built from inside it.”

This guide is rooted in how students learn best and how modern teams work in the real world.

It has been tested and refined with teachers leading project-based learning, science, technology, engineering, and math programs, career and technical education, and work-based learning.

It draws from the same Agile practices used by companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and Netflix—but reshaped through the lens of classroom realities.

This isn’t a borrowed framework. It’s a trusted one.

Authentic to Agile. Grounded in education.

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