A learning environment that includes building trust, encouraging reflection, enabling knowledge-sharing, and empowering learners (teachers and students) through flexible and differentiated space, pace, delivery, and instructional strategies.
Students can make the most out of their learning opportunities when they feel safe in their physical and social environments. Fostering a learning community where students can work together to pursue goals requires an awareness and appreciation for oneself and others.
A fusion of research-based pedagogical practices and modern, emerging innovations will provide students the ability to master and leverage existing content knowledge, making links to reinterpret and create new meaning.
Cognitively complex learning experiences that are appropriate, purposeful, and frequently assessed to promote understanding.
