EL's Why
In addition to learning knowledge and skills, EL schools strive for students to experience achievement in these other two dimensions of achievement.
What are character and high quality work?
This character and culture-building aspect to EL schools is referred to as both a structure and a way of being throughout the entire day.
What is crew?
EL started with this many design principles.
What is 10?
This word accompanies "reflection" in one of EL's design principles.
What is solitude?
Launched in 2024, this tool is available for 6th - 12th leaders of EL's character and culture part of the day.
What is the crew curriculum?
These are the two types of justice that EL schools' expeditions often incorporate in students' learning.
What are social and environmental?
This is the foundational curricular element of full model EL Education schools.
What are expeditions?
EL first started in this year.
What is 1992?
This is named to balance success within EL's 5th design principle.
What is failure?
Available for middle school ELA teachers, this tool provides prewritten content-based literacy curriculum that many build expeditions from.
What are the modules?
While always an implied priority in EL Education's work throughout its history, this became a more explicitly articulated aspect to EL's work around 2015.
What is equity?
Using these during lessons is a priority practice in EL schools to get students socially constructing meaning together.
What are speaking and listening protocols?
When EL first started, these other two organizations partnered in the project.
What are Harvard University and Outward Bound?
This design principle speaks to our work engaging students to become stewards of the earth and of future generations.
What is The Natural World?
Navigating to this website (and possibly updating your username and password) will give you access to videos that demonstrate all of the EL Education practices.
EL Education's mission is to have students fulfill their highest aspirations and achieve this.
What is more than they think possible?
EL Education's book titled Leaders of Their Own Learning describes this suite of instructional practices that often set EL schools apart from other more traditional schools.
The EL school model directly applies the character-driven, experiential philosophy of this educational pioneer who founded Outward Bound in the 1940s.
Who is Kurt Hahn?
The well-known phrase, "We are crew, not passengers," is part of this design principle.
What is service and compassion?
This is the click pathway to access all of the protocols at eleducation.org that teachers can use when designing lessons.
What is resources and then protocols?
Folks across the EL National Network often use this phrase to represent EL's belief that students should be applying their learning to make their community and the world a better place.
What is Get Smart to Do Good?
According to EL's Deeper Learning Framework, these three words are used to describe learning experiences "that last"
What is challenging, engaging, and empowering?
In 1996 federal funding for EL's partnership with schools, provided through this initiative, ended moving EL to set up its own partnerships with schools and districts.
What is the New American Schools initiative?
This design principle was inspired by educator Eleanor Duckworth.
What is the having of wonderful ideas?
This, the largest curation of high-quality student work in the world, is often used to inspire both teachers and students and was created through research with Harvard's Dr. Steve Seidel.
What is Models of Excellence?