Books about Contributive Learning
Measuring Human Return: Understanding and Assessing What Really Matters for Deep Learning
Available at corwin.com or at all major book retailers
Human return is the human capacity to contribute to people’s lives and to the world. It’s incredibly important in the lives of every one of us, because when we contribute—when we add to the world—that gives us meaning, fulfillment, and well-being.
The Depthvale Detectives and the Great Education Crisis: A Guide to Contributive Learning in Schools
Available on Amazon.com
“This book marks a true meta-moment for schools, a chance to consider what your best school would look like, and to choose the behaviors that bring it to life.”
From the foreword.
Marc Brackett, Ph.D.
Director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence
Professor, Yale Child Study Center
Author of Permission to Feel
More Books by Joanne McEachen
Deep Learning
Engage the World Change the World
Available at corwin.com or at all major book retailers
Dive into Deep Learning
Tools for Engagement
Available at corwin.com or at all major book retailers
Making the Important Measurable,
Not the Measurable Important
Available on amazon.com
Papers
The Good and the Bad: Equity, Assessment, and the Great Education Crisis
The Learner First’s Joanne McEachen, Mary Coverdale, and Matthew Kane explore the ways that assessment, and a more meaningful understanding of academic success, can help create an equitable experience in schools.
Contributive Learning: Education for Positive Impact
The Learner First’s Joanne McEachen and Matthew Kane share the importance of Contributive Learning to unite education with positive application so its uses improve people’s lives and the world.
Professional Learning in Mathematics
Late in 2022 Julie Roberts and Jonathan Fisher caught up Rob Proffitt White, The Learner First Executive Director of Maths, to find out about the recent professional learning workshops he ran with teachers and school leaders around New Zealand. They asked Rob about the underlying approach to the short-term Just-in-Time Maths initiative and his thoughts about future professional learning in mathematics.
Contributive Learning develops self-understanding, connection, knowledge, and competency.
When these come together, we add to the world. And that leads to meaning, fulfillment, and well-being.
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Develop self-understanding.
Cultivate knowledge.
Foster competency.
Make connections.
Don’t bring down—lift people up.
Don’t subtract—add to the world.
Learn to contribute, in your way, every day.