Foundational Principles - Donna Milani Luther

1

Designing Environments

Learn how to create physical and emotional environments where learners can thrive, explore, and discover their potential in safe and supportive spaces.

Designing spaces that inspire learning

Creating emotional safety for risk-taking

Fostering conditions for growth and exploration

2

Structure Leads to Freedom

Discover how thoughtful structure and clear boundaries actually create more freedom for learners to explore, create, and take ownership of their learning journey.

Creating frameworks that enable independence

Balancing guidance with autonomy

Liberating creativity through clear expectations

3

First Name Basis

Understand the power of personal connection and how knowing each learner as an individual creates the foundation for meaningful relationships and transformative education.

Building genuine connections with learners

Seeing each child as a whole person

Creating trust through personal attention

4

Opportunities to Choose

Explore how giving learners meaningful choices and decision-making opportunities develops their agency, confidence, and investment in their own learning process.

Providing meaningful choices in learning

Developing student agency and ownership

Empowering decision-making skills

5

Building Independence

Learn strategies to gradually release responsibility to learners, helping them develop the confidence and skills to become self-directed and autonomous.

Gradual release of responsibility

Building confidence through small steps

Celebrating self-directed achievements

6

Depth as Opposed to Breadth

Discover why deep, meaningful exploration of fewer topics creates more powerful learning experiences than surface-level coverage of many subjects.

Going deep into meaningful topics

Encouraging thorough investigation

Building lasting understanding through depth

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I4 Process

Learn Donna's innovative I4 Framework - Inquire, Imagine, Invent, Implement - a powerful process that guides learners through creative problem-solving and innovation.

Inquire: Asking powerful questions

Imagine: Envisioning possibilities

Invent & Implement: Creating solutions

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