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Discover a Unique Approach to Transforming Your School

Engaging, Innovative, & Personalized Learning Is Missing From Classrooms

Our Approach 1

Instructional leaders commonly report that their top problem in classrooms is a lack of engagement on the part of students. Keeping every student engaged while balancing the needs of a diverse group of learners is almost impossible without a serious mindset shift toward blended learning and a stack of new instructional strategies designed to meet the needs of each learner. The teacher must leave their comfortable place at the front of the room to focus on individuals and small groups.

Through our work at LINC, we see the emergence of transformed schools and classrooms that are engaging, equitable, and student-centered. Our professional learning platform, LINCspring, is designed to support transformative professional learning at scale across the globe through its unique and personalized professional development approach. Our research-based approach was developed to assist educators in creating student-centered classrooms that dramatically increase student agency, engagement, and success through empowering teacher innovation.

Allowing Teachers To Become Agents Of Change

The Model of Generative Change, rooted in over 15 years of research from Stanford University’s Dr. Arnetha Ball, is a process through which teachers and students develop voice, generativity, and efficacy in their thinking and practice. As an approach to professional learning, the model recognizes teachers as agents of classroom transformation, not objects of it.

Our Revolutionary Spark, Reflect, Tinker, Grow Approach

The LINC team has partnered with Dr. Ball to embed the Model of Generative Change in innovative professional development. Together, we created LINC’s Taxonomy of Generative Change. It is our goal that educators use this innovative, four-step approach to professional learning to transform their schools. 

How this 4-Step process works:

Our Approach 2

Spark

Ignite your passions and explore a new idea, strategy, or skill. Spark gets the learner excited to begin and shares the benefits of learning more about this topic. These quick 3-minute videos begin to shift your mindset.

Our Approach 3

Reflect

Reflection is critical to the mindset shifts needed to improve practice. LINCspring Cycles guide educators in contemplation of their current practices and envisioned paths. This is achieved through pre- and post-Cycle reflections.

Tinker

Tinker

Tinkering is all about trying something new in order to push innovation in the classroom. LINCspring Templates provide suggested Lesson Flows and Multimedia Resources to mix and match for job-embedded development of new teaching practices.

Grow

Grow

Growth happens when reflection and tinkering lead to breakthroughs and a growing desire to innovate. LINCspring Playlists allow users to personalize their growth path. LINCspring Community provides a space for users to connect & get support from other educators.

Our mission is to develop a culture of generativity. For a generative school community to exist, there must be a constant state of growth and reflection. In this new culture, teachers become creative problem-solvers with the ability and willingness to address the unique needs of each student.

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Download LINC’s New White Paper and Executive Summary

Reimagining Professional Learning to Meet the Needs of Today’s Complex Classrooms is a white paper by Arnetha F. Ball, PhD, professor emerita at Stanford University. In it, she presents an overview of a research-based professional development approach that actually impacts teachers’ perspectives on teaching and classroom practice towards more student-centered and equitable learning environments.