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We are leading experts on how to improve academic and SEL outcomes for all learners.

The Contributive Learning Framework guides every learner to lifelong success and well-being. It supports the development of purposeful teaching and learning environments that focus classroom culture, pedagogy, curriculum, and assessment toward the academic and social-emotional growth of every student.

We partner with schools and school systems in a variety of ways as best meets your needs, and to implement strategies that make a difference for communities.

Our four core support areas are detailed below.

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Learning Environment and Culture

Develop a culture where all learners feel purposeful and have a sense of belonging, and where they learn to contribute to others’ lives and to the world in their own unique ways.

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Conditions for Contribution

A positive, inclusive, and equitable mindset that helps all learners shine and contribute to the world.

The Learner First process enables leaders, teachers, and students to create a school community narrative that is positive and hopeful, and that affirms the wonderful diversity of the human condition.

We can support your school to:

Create a unique school ecosystem by developing and aligning the moral purpose of the school through the lens of your unique learners.
Implement effective classroom practices that will develop a culture where all learners feel purposeful and have a sense of belonging.
Shift mindsets and develop a shared understanding of key elements of identity, inclusion, and well-being to create a shared language around the values and goals of your community.

Designing Contributive Learning

A seamless integration of social-emotional and academic learning. It makes the experience of teaching and learning more engaging for students and teachers alike.

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Designing Contributive Learning experiences.

Student agency and voice take center stage in an inclusive environment where students are architects of learning that is meaningful, engaging, and personally relevant.

Designing for Contributive Learning is a process for integrating academic and social-emotional learning in everyday instruction in ways that engage and empower students, teachers, families, and communities. K-12 schools can implement Contributive Learning through a series of collaborative, interactive workshops designed to give teachers the confidence and capability to improve students’ well-being through curricular learning.

We support teachers to:

Develop equitable classrooms where every child is equipped with self-understanding, connection, knowledge, and competency.
Partner with students to learn who they are, what they need, and how to design learning experiences that reflect their identities, goals, and aspirations.
Assess and adapt to students’ social-emotional learning needs while working within the context of your curriculum.

Authentic Assessment

Authentic assessment is about using a complete range of quantitative and qualitative learning evidence to determine where learners are and what they need to succeed.

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Measuring what matters.

Get to the heart of what each student needs by learning who they are and measuring what matters—not just what you’ve always measured.

With a range of measures and tools, teachers and students learn assessment strategies that combine formative and summative approaches, provide precision in meaningful, standards-based assessment, and build reliable and valid evidence for multi-level accountability that works for each one of your teachers and learners.

We have the tools you need to:

Use AMMA across your curriculum to synthesize a range of formative and summative assessment.
Ensure expectations remain high, standards are achieved, and students are enabled to show what they know in the ways best suited to their talents and learning styles.
Collaboratively moderate all elements of classroom practice, reflecting on and improving unit and learning design, pedagogical practice, and learners’ outcomes.

Math + SEL

Connecting math and numeracy with SEL to improve outcomes for learners.

Rob Proffitt-White

Maths and Numeracy Director

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Exploring more meaningful math.

Rob has been the catalyst for change in building teachers’ capacity to understand the curriculum. He is an outstanding exponent of the teaching and coaching art and, as a result, students’ academic and dispositional outcomes have significantly improved alongside teacher competence.

Mike Hobson
Principal, Noosaville State School

Our Math + SEL support is delivered by practitioners who can successfully turn great practice into common practice throughout a school.

Support options include:

Designing activities and routines that make standards accessible to and achievable for all students.
Creating contextualized numeracy tasks that integrate critical and creative thinking.
Building teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge to ensure improved outcomes for learners regardless of current achievement levels.
Understanding and addressing common misconceptions and associated negative dispositions surrounding mathematics in schools.

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We are leading experts on how to improve academic and SEL outcomes for learners.

To learn more about or get started on the Contributive Learning journey, reach out today!

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Email general inquiries to info@thelearnerfirst.com or find more contact info here.

We have businesses registered in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand and work with educators and schools in countries around the world.

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