Side-by-side comparison

Lead Out Method Today’s school system

An education method

A production method

Solves the right problem.

The Beautiful Problem:

How to get students insidewhat they need to succeed?Three students, each wearing the Schoolio mark

Fails to solve the wrong problem.

How to get students to learn at the same pace?

(Students are all different.)

Science confirms The Beautiful Problem.

There is no science validating that the right problem is:

How to get students to learn at the same pace?

Includes educating.

Enables students to powerfully use autonomy.

Does not include educating.

Provides the three conditions scientifically proven to activate learning motivation:

  • Autonomy
  • Mastery
  • Purpose

Suppresses the three conditions scientifically proven to activate learning motivation:

  • Autonomy
  • Mastery
  • Purpose

Shares leadership with educators

— those closest to students

— allows educators to get students inside what they need to succeed.

Top-down

— centrally planned

— highest priority: follow the schedule.

Gets what parents want:

children ready to survive in the real world after school.

Fails parents:

Too many children aren’t ready to survive in the real world after school.

Students want to come to school

— when school lets them succeed

— attendance revenue goes up.

Students avoid school

— when they’re forced forward: ready or not, behind or not, discouraged or not

— attendance revenue goes down.

Heroes freed to succeed:

  • Educators ✓
  • Parents ✓
  • Districts ✓

Heroes held back:

  • Educators ✕
  • Parents ✕
  • Districts ✕