5 Essentials for Successful Strategic Planning
Download and share this free e2L resource to help make your district’s next strategic plan the most successful yet.
Buerk Rubric DIY: Leveling the Standards
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The Buerk Rubric is a growth-based learning system that allows teachers to efficiently design lessons and learning experiences that provide every student with an autonomous path to mastery and beyond. This resource provides step-by-step instructions for how to create your…
Coaching Questions for Building Capacity
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This resource features a list of guiding questions coaches can use to help their coaching conversations be more focused and actionable. The questions listed are aligned to each step of the eGrowe Coaching Model. eNet Members Only! Sorry, but this…
Creating Equity by Closing the Learner Experience Gap
Download PDF By: Dr. Kent Scribner, Superintendent Juan Cabrera, and Shannon K. Buerk Abstract Why is it important that learners acquire “soft skills?” How are their classroom experiences in public schools nationwide addressing the issue of equity? Pervasive…
DIY: Campus Learning Environment
This “do-it-yourself” activity is one that we share with our e2L campuses, and helps leaders rethink the learning spaces of their campus in terms of what kinds of space are needed to best support authentic student engagement and collaborative problem-solving.
DIY: Classroom Learning Environment
This “do-it-yourself” activity helps teachers and leaders rethink the learning spaces of their classroom in terms of what kinds of spaces are needed to best support authentic student engagement and collaborative problem-solving.
DIY: Technology Plan for PBL/e2L
This “do-it-yourself” activity helps campus and district leaders think about what technology consideration and system need to be added or amended in order to best support the learning environment of PBL/e2L classrooms and campuses.
DIY: Why, What, How
This “do-it-yourself” activity helps campus and district leaders think about the why, what, and how of PBL/e2L implementation.
Becky Bracewell-Tucker, Principal at Raines High School in Katy ISD, talks about her experience with the e2L Learning Framework.
e2L Higher Order Thinking Tool
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To best scaffold your standards, utilize this Higher-Order Thinking Tool with verbage from Costa’s Level of Questioning, Bloom’s Taxonomy, and Webb’s Depth of Knowledge, paying specific attention to the processing skill at each level. eNet Members Only! Sorry, but this…
e2L Learning Framework Parent Orientation Presentation
This resource can be used for a brief presentation to parents as an overview of the e2L Learning Framework. Slides include interactive questions for the audience and examples of things students might say to parents about the learning model.
e2L Learning Model
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The e2L Learning Model provides defined structure and protocols that guide the design and facilitation of each learner’s experience across your entire district. This learner-driven learning model includes behavioral protocols that clearly define and describe what learning should look like…
e2L Recommended Reading & Viewing List
This list contains some of our favorite thought leaders and can be utilized to begin conversations with community, conduct a book study or article study with staff or Board of Trustees, provide to parents to dig deeper into the literature so they are informed on the “why, what, and how” of educational change or just to study for yourself. Enjoy!
e2L Strategic Vision Methodology
The research base for e2L Strategic Vision methodology includes organizational culture gurus, thought leaders on strategic planning, and our own experience with over 200 districts. The methodology is grounded in backwards design, design thinking and culture-based change management. The process is collaborative, inclusive and actionable. The resulting Strategic Design Framework includes a set of shared beliefs, call to action, learner profile, learner outcomes, learning framework, strategies, goals, action plans and a five-year timeline of specific results.
Education/Community Summit Presentation Template
This is the presentation template that can be used to facilitate education/community summits and/or forums. It provides a wonderful framework for soliciting feedback from your local community as to what they would like to see in their childrens’ classrooms and campuses.
This video provides a brief look back at the history of education in American in order to begin the dialogue about what we need to do to ensure our youth thrive in today’s society.
Fixing the Leaky Pipeline: How to Retain Teachers through Talent Transformation
Download PDF By: Shannon K. Buerk, Founder & CEO for engage2learn Abstract Many efforts to overcome the teacher shortage in public schools nationwide are understandably focused on increasing the supply of teachers into the pipeline. However, every new…
Game Changers
Welcome to Game Changers! Click on the session name for access to resources from each session. September 2015 Google Session December 2015 Southwest Airlines Session February 2016 Whataburger Session This information is for Game Changer participants only. For more information about…
GROWE Learning Process
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The GROWE Learning Process provides teachers, students, and parents a structured learning process that is goal-oriented and easy to follow. This process supports learner agency and ensures engagement and equity by allowing learners to personalize their growth toward mastery throughout…
Innovation and Coaching: The Keys to Successful Literacy and Life Ready Skills
At engage2learn, we recognize that early literacy development is crucial to the acquisition of reading and life ready skills; to best support all meaningful educational partners in this effort, including parents, teachers, and stakeholders alike, we believe that innovative literacy initiatives and job-embedded, professional coaching are the keys to a successful literate society.
5th grade ELAR/SS teacher, Olive May, and the journey of her first year implementing the e2L Learning Framework
Learner Profile for Students
The student is invited to reflect on his/her learning style and preferences in this resource that provides information for the teacher to use in designing engaging and differentiated learning experiences.
Learner Profile: The Catalyst for Equipping Learners for Life
In the modern era of public education, often referred to as Education 3.0, it is imperative that young learners embody the Life Ready Skills necessary for success in the world outside of their school walls. A Learner Profile is the precise tool that emboldens communities and educational stakeholders to identify those necessary traits and develop the ideal learning opportunities for their students to be successful. Once created, districts can put a learner profile into action through a learning framework.
This montage video pieces together testimonials from student who are learning in the e2L Learning Framework
Learning Style Tips for Home
This resource provides tips for parents to use to assist with creating a study environment at home that aligns to an individual student’s learning style and preferences.
LIFe Ready Collaboration Rubric
A rubric is designed to define expectations for a particular learning standard. The rubric contains 4 progressive levels of concepts that foster mastery of each LIFe Ready Skill. Learners can use rubrics to set learning goals and track progress and…
Life-Ready is Future-Proof
Focusing on building Life Ready skills in today’s learners ensures the 16,000 or so hours learners invest in school is well-spent, college or career readiness is guaranteed, and that they leave high school confident to take on the future as it unfolds for each of them as individuals. No longer are jobs centered around solitary, repetitive tasks, but instead call for collaboration, multiple methods of communication, and innovation. e2L has curated 7 Life Ready Skills from the research on this topics. . It is one thing to know what these skills are and to understand that they are important to the future of every learner attending schools today; it is an entirely different thing to create a system prepared to provide the experience required.
Parent Orientation to Student-Centered Learning
Student-centered learning puts education into the hands of learners. This system of learning is innovation-focused and develops learners’ LIFe Ready skills. It’s been proven to decrease discipline referrals, increase student engagement, and prepare students for the economy of tomorrow. However,…
Parent/Guardian Conversation Starters
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This resource provides teacher/educators with quick conversation starters in both English and Spanish that will help educators better connect with the parent/guardian of their students in order to increase engagement for remote learning. eNet Members Only! Sorry, but this content…
Planning for 4 Futures Slidedeck – TASA Virtual Summer Conference
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Sign up for or log in to your eNet Membership account for instant access to Shannon Buerk’s slide deck from the TASA Virtual Summer Conference presentation, “Planning for 4 Possible Futures” eNet Members Only! Sorry, but this content requires a…
Provocative Prompts Protocol
This is an activity we use to facilitate in a leadership team or on a campus to think through the current social, economic, technological, environmental, and political landscape as we consider what we need to do in education to prepare students for the world in which we live. The protocol is intended to stimulate lively discussion and a better understanding of the challenges in our world as we create a learner profile or learner outcomes. The prompts can be interchanged with others from your favorite thought leaders.
Scaffold the Standards Workspace
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Below you will find download links for e2L’s Scaffold the Standards Workspace. This workspace provides step-by-step guidance for how to mitigate learning loss due to COVID-19 school closures by effectively planning how content standards (TEKS) missed in the spring of…
Start, Stop, Continue Resource
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This resource details a quick and easy process for strategic abandonment that helps teachers and administrators determine together or independently what they need to start, stop, or continue doing. eNet Members Only! Sorry, but this content requires a membership to…
Student and Teacher Learning Framework Roles
A student-centered learning framework is the key to preparing learners for the economy of today and tomorrow. But when our schools turn to student-centered learning, it can sometimes be difficult to understand student and teacher roles within the new learning…
Student Learner Profile Parent Questionnaire
The Parent Questionnaire provides a venue for teachers to gather important information about a studen’s learning style and about goals that the parent and student share for learning and acquiring skills.
Student Learner Profile Parent Questionnaire
Teachers and parents alike can use this questionnaire to reveal a learner’s strengths and areas for improvement. It’s a great step for preparing for personalized learning. Download now
Summary of Research on Inquiry-Based Learning
This resources provides a brief summary of the more than 20 years of research on inquiry-based learning.
This video highlights an integrated Engaged Learning Unit (ELU) at Sunnyvale MS where students learn about the history of hot air balloons and get to chance create and test their own balloons.
Supporting e2L Learners at Home
This resource is provided to give suggestions for parents to be able to ask questions, assist with problem-solving, and stay involved with student learning throughout the five steps of the e2L Learning Framework and standards mastery
Supporting Your Child’s Education At Home
We know that parents only want the best for their children. Learning doesn’t end with the classroom, and often students may raise questions about their education at home. Your child’s inquiry-based, differentiated learning environment may be different than the educational…
The Craft of Culture-Focused Leadership: 5 Culture Catalysts + 3 Skills
Download PDF By: Shannon K. Buerk, Founder and CEO of engage2learn Abstract What if the reason decades of reform, including billions of taxpayer dollars spent on professional learning, technology, resources, and programs have not created a sustainable solution…
Unit Communication Template
The Unit Communication Template provides parents with information about each unit of learning including the standards for mastery, the due dates, what will be graded and when as well as a goal-setting and reflection piece to complete with students for each unit.
What is the e2L Learning Framework?
Great Question! It’s hard to put it in words, but this is best way we know how to explain what the e2L Learning Framework is and is not.