Five Learning Principles
That Grow Collective Leadership and Distinguish Transformational Classrooms
If we expect students in our classrooms to learn differently, we must help adults in our classrooms to learn differently. Our studies of transformational adults in and around classrooms reveal common patterns in how they have learned and grown—and those same learning conditions enable students’ growth as leaders. These Learning Principles are important for nurturing the Practices and Perspectives of collective leadership.
View the Principles in Action
Watch the video below to see how the Principles of Collective Learning have informed Enseña por México's Theory of Leadership Development.
For more concrete examples of application, consider these strategies a learner or a learning designer might use to bring the principles to light.
Illustration of the Learning Principles: A Participant Journey
One way to understand the learning principles is to consider how they might be experienced by a participant in one of our programs. We’ve mapped the learning journey of Sophie, an imaginary participant in a Teach For All program. Get started by double-clicking "Continue" in the interactive journey map below.
Connections to the Learning Principles: Coaching Stems
Provided by Teach For Armenia, the resource below offers question stems for three different types of coaching. In the annotations, we explore connections between these stems and the principles of collective learning. We’ve highlighted areas in which the principles are already clearly being used as well as possible opportunities to further leverage them.
