Students thrive in environments where they develop: • Purpose—Students attack challenges they know to be important, that make their world better. • Essentials—Students acquire the skill sets and mind-sets needed in an increasingly innovative world. • Agency—Students own their learning, becoming self-directed, intrinsically motivated adults. • Knowledge—What students learn is deep and retained, enabling them to create, to make, to teach others. We’ll call these the PEAK principles—purpose, essentials, agency, knowledge. They abound in preschools, kindergartens, and Montessori schools—places
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