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Shifting the Mindset 1. The MCL Vision

Adam Murray — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 20:19:17 +0000

In this Learning Path you will build an understanding of the future-focused, uncompromisingly learner-centered MCL Vision. As a result of your study, you will reflect on how you, your learning center, and your learning community are doing and plan your next steps related to the elements of The MCL Vision.

Learning Path Outcomes:

Specifically, in The MCL Vision Learning Path, you will increase your understanding of:

the Mass Customized Learning Vision;
the difference between transformation and tinkering;
why the Mass Customized Learning Vision is needed, doable and inevitable;
the systemic nature of the 8 Components of Mass Customized Learning.

MCL #5 – Quality Instruction

Adam Murray — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 20:16:42 +0000

Quality Instruction, the fifth series in the MCL institute, is foundational knowledge for all teachers. Ironically, we all can name most of the Systems of the Human Body. However, we are at a loss to name the Systems of Learning. Just as doctors need to be experts on how the Systems of the Human Body work; just as all professionals need to be experts in their field; we, educators, need to be experts on how the Systems of Learning work.

Essentially, this series is the anatomy book on learning. It’s a study of each of the systems with descriptions, examples, and strategies. Most teachers have a toolbox full of teaching strategies. Highly effective teachers, however, understand WHY they are using a strategy.

The Quality Instruction Series ensures that a learning community is operating from a common understanding . . . a common model . . . of learning with intentional, strategic, focused instruction optimizing learning for all learners.

The 11 Learning Paths in the Quality Instruction Series are:

Understanding Learning
The Self System (Mindset of the Learner)
The Meta-Cognitive System (Habits of Mind)
The Cognitive System: Acquiring Knowledge
The Cognitive System: Applying Knowledge
- 5a. Introduction to Applying Knowledge
- 5b. Analyzing Similarities & Differences (Complex Reasoning Cluster 1)
- 5c. Analyzing Arguments & Assertions (Complex Reasoning Cluster 2)
- 5d. Analyzing Logical Inferences (Complex Reasoning Cluster 3)
- 5e. Analyzing Situations & Issues (Complex Reasoning Cluster 4)
- 5f. Analyzing Phenomena & Events (Complex Reasoning Cluster 5)
Supervising Learning

MCL #4: Skilled Leadership Series

Adam Murray — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 20:15:29 +0000

Moving education out of the Industrial Age, assembly-line approach requires strong, courageous, committed, skilled leadership. The transformation of education and realizing the Mass Customized Learning Vision will not happen without these skilled leaders. This Skilled Leadership Series focuses on the leaders at learning center (school) the site or school level and at the learning community (district) or district level.

The 6 Learning Paths in the Skilled Leadership Series are:

Leadership 101
Affirming One’s Moral Compass (Authentic Leadership)
Clarifying the Vision (Visionary Leadership)
Creating Ownership for the Vision (Relational Leadership)
Building Capacity for the Vision (Quality Leadership)
Providing Support for the Vision (Service Leadership)

MCL #3: Customizing Structures Series

Adam Murray — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 20:14:25 +0000

In the Customizing Structures Series, you will acquire an in-depth understanding of how Industrial Age structures cement and reinforce an archaic, outdated educational system and how Information Age structures leverage and power a transformational vision.

The 6 Learning Paths in this Customizing Structures Series are:

The Rationale for Customizing Structures
Future-Focused Outcomes
Learning Opportunities
Flexible Grouping and Re-Grouping
Formative Feedback
Anywhere-Anytime Learning

MCL #2: Viable Learning Outcomes Series

Adam Murray — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 20:13:29 +0000

Doing school in Industrial Age schools has been mostly relegated to the lowest level on a taxonomy of thinking: regurgitating factual often irrelevant information. The curriculum has been notoriously criticized as being “an inch deep and a mile wide.” The Viable Learning Outcomes Series is about identifying the rigorous, relevant and viable knowledge that learners need to be prepared for life in this rapidly changing world. Rigor signals learning that is higher up on a taxonomy of thinking. Relevancy focuses on critical concepts and skills. Viability means doable in the timeframe we have the learners. These three descriptors are the standards for this Viable Learning Outcomes Series.

The 3 Learning Paths in the Viable Learning Outcomes Series are:

Background Knowledge
Articulating Learning Outcomes
Organizing Learning Outcomes

MCL #1: Shifting the Mindset Series

Adam Murray — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 20:11:34 +0000

Shifting the Mindset, the first series in the MCL Institute, is about the foundational understandings necessary to realize a transformational vision for your learning community. As such, it is recommended as a prerequisite to all the other series. The Learning Paths in this series will help you to understand WHY it’s necessary to replace the Industrial Age, assembly-line, one-size-fits-all model of schools with MCL’s Ideal Learning Experience (ILX). From little steps (changing the words we use) to big strategies (creating a shared vision), the goal of this series is to . . . well . . . shift the mindset of stakeholders. That is, realizing this vision is needed and inevitable.

The 5 Learning Paths in the Shifting the Mindset Series are:

The MCL Vision
Strategic Design
The Research on Motivation
Breakthroughs and Paradigm Shifts
Enabling Culture