Landscape Model of Learning

Help students take the lead on reaching their own personal highest level of success by shifting from the current paradigm of education to create a more meaningful and inclusive learning ecosystem. This essential guide offers the landscape model and its three elements: understanding what students bring to the ecosystem, defining the horizon, and charting the pathway. Access practical strategies for drawing on students’ experiences and strengths to create a more meaningful and inclusive educational ecosystem.

Educators committed to lifelong learning, diversity, equity, and inclusion will:

• Retire the inadequate goal of access and move education toward the higher and more urgent, equitable goal of helping every student reach their highest possible level of individual success
• Embrace the concept of inclusive prosperity, which goes beyond diversity to accepting and supporting all students—their experiences, gifts, and challenges—to build communities where all students belong
• Receive practical, research-based strategies for developing agency and engagement so that students become the protagonists of their journey through the learning ecosystem
• Design systems for student protagonism by implementing student-centered strategies for cognitive and cultural inclusion
• Obtain reproducible tools to deepen understanding and implementation of the material
• Learn how to successfully implement the model despite common hurdles and potential challenges, such as traditional academic contexts and economically disenfranchised schools

Contents:
Introduction
Part 1: Understanding the Landscape Model
Chapter 1: The Landscape Model’s Three Elements
Chapter 2: Eight Guiding Principles
Part 2: Implementing the Landscape Model
Chapter 3: Element One: The Ecosystem
Chapter 4: Element Two: The Horizon
Chapter 5: Element Three: The Pathway
Part 3: Leading the Landscape Model
Chapter 6: Student Growth Assessment on the Landscape
Chapter 7: Challenges of Implementation
Chapter 8: Landscape Model Implementation for Long-Term Success
Chapter 9: Opportunities for the Future
Epilogue: Why This Work Matters
Appendix
References and Resources
Index