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THE LEARNER FIRST What is The Learner First? The Learner First catalyzes and empowers school districts and education systems to create deep, systemic change which dramatically accelerates outcomes for the learners. JOANNE MCEACHEN JANE DAVIDSON The Learner First is not professional development. It’s not a program. It’s not a cookie cutter. It is a systematic process helping schools and districts look critically at the whole system; identify what needs to change to make it work for every single learner; and lead deep, sustainable, transformational change all the way through to outcomes for kids. The Learner First uses four key ‘assumption mind shifts’ to facilitate change in both thinking and practice throughout the system: • The only morally defensible target is 100% success. • Parents are the best experts of their own children. We foster this inclusive expertise. • Equal treatment leads to inequitable outcomes. • Focusing on a small number of the most vulnerable students, we create deep system-wide changes that benefit everyone. We deliver an actionable framework and process supporting decision makers to identify the real issues, work out how to address them, implement and drive change, and determine what’s working or not. In the words of a school Library Media Specialist who works with Learner First: “The Learner First is a change process with a goal of 100% student success. We focus on the students who struggle the most. By lifting them, we lift everyone.” The Learner First www.thelearnerfirst.com info@thelearnerfirst.com Copyright 2015
THE LEARNER FIRST What we have learnt. Our Four Drivers to Success. Engage • Powerful, sustainable change must be done with people, not to them, or even for them. Over time it must be done by them. • By understanding each other as people, we build cohesive school and system change teams, creating a safe space to dig deeply into our underlying beliefs so we can effect genuine change for the learners who need it. Measure • To achieve the vision we need a clear idea of where we are at, and an authentic way of measuring meaningful progress. • No more teaching to the test; authentic mixed method assessment helps the whole system focus on what really matters for kids, and make it happen for them. Empower Transform • Sustainable change means empowering a critical mass of people with a process, supporting tools, and a methodology for understanding the real problems, working out what to do, and driving that change all the way through to outcomes for learners. • At every level of the system, we guide not just one leader but whole change teams through The Learner First methodology. As capability grows, change teams can make it happen themselves. • Genuine, effective change must be deep, systemic, and transformational. • We empower schools, districts, states, and countries to create transformational change at every level of the organizational culture iceberg. Not just policies and programs, but actual behaviors and practices, and – crucially – the core beliefs and assumptions that drive those behaviors The Learner First www.thelearnerfirst.com info@thelearnerfirst.com Copyright 2015
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