We believe in focusing on the whole child and promoting social and emotional growth, because education is about more than just high test scores. iLEAD is also committed to incorporating technology and real-world experiences that bring classroom learning to life.
We want our learners to be lifelong learners, empathetic citizens, authentic individuals, and design thinkers. This requires a grounding in language arts, mathematics, technology, history, science, the arts, design, and humanities, as well as the need to feel at home in the world.
Our goal is nothing short of learning, to change the world.
The Core of iLEAD Education
Utilizing Project-Based Learning (PBL), iLEAD focuses on deeper learning practices that motivate and challenge our learners, allowing them to apply what they learn in one subject area to situations in another. This is just one more way they find their classwork relating to life beyond the classroom.
Deeper Learning
Mastery of academic content is critical to children’s future success in college, careers, and life. It’s the foundation of deeper-learning classrooms. Our learners have multiple opportunities to engage with high-level content through our robust programming as well as other educational learning opportunities such as
the College Credit Plus program.
An iLEAD education focuses on the following:
Mastery of Core Academic Content: Learners lay their academic foundation in subjects such as reading, writing, arts, math, and science, understanding essential principles and procedures, recalling facts and drawing on their knowledge to complete tasks.
Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving: Our learners understand how to construct effective arguments utilizing their critical, analytical, and creative skills. They know how to come up with solutions to complex problems.
Collaboration: Learners embrace teamwork, communicating, and understanding multiple viewpoints to cooperate and achieve shared goals.
Effective Communication: Learners communicate effectively in writing and oral presentations. They structure information in meaningful ways, listen to and give feedback, and construct messages for particular audiences.
Self-Directed Learning: Learners develop an ability to set goals, monitor their own progress, and reflect on their strengths and areas for improvement. They learn to see setbacks as opportunities to grow and adapt.
Growth Mindset: Learners with a growth mindset believe in themselves. They trust their abilities and believe their hard work will pay off; they persist to overcome obstacles. In the process, they also learn from and support one another, and they see the relevance of their schoolwork to the real world and their own future success.
How We Do It
There are five key pillars to the iLEAD approach:
Multiage education also allows each learner to spend at least two consecutive years with the same facilitator. This process results in seamless transitions from one year to the next.