Services

Principled Learning Strategies works closely with students, teachers and leaders to help communities transition toward student-centered, globally-connected, identity-responsive teaching and learning practices.
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All PLS services are available in Spanish and English, on a sliding cost scale, to ensure equity of access for all communities.

We work with schools at all levels, to ensure deep shifts in the culture of teaching and learning

Using participant-centered pedagogies like Project-Based Learning, in connection with Global Education and Identity-Responsive Education for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, we help communities build more inclusive, authentic learning experiences that ground teaching and learning in relevance and purpose while building participants' leadership and agency for a changing world. We also work with leaders to develop governance strategies that support change and help them respond effectively to resistance.

For Learners

Small and Large Group Leadership Workshops for secondary and university students and graduates are designed to inspire and equip learners to engage in critical dialogue and develop more pluralistic thinking skills, and to lead global and local initiatives, born from their sense of passion and purpose, so they can contribute to positive change in their communities in uncertain times‍

For Teachers

Personalized professional learning workshops and long-term coaching for teachers are designed to inspire and equip teachers and leaders on topics including The Landscape Model of Learning, Project-Based Learning, Global Competencies and Partnerships, Intercultural Skill Building, Identity-Responsive Education, Critical and Pluralistic Thinking, and more

For Leaders

Personalized workshops, coaching, and long-term planning support are designed to support leaders of PreK-12, university, and non-educational organizations on topics such as Leading the Landscape Model, Leading Transformation in Traditional Contexts, Redesigning the Schoolhouse for Student-Centered Learning, Taming the Turbulence in Resistant Communities, and more

For Networks and Districts

Personalized workshops and long-term planning support at the organizational, district, and network level are designed to ensure continuity of vision and implementation across all levels of an educational context, and to guide broader governance, infrastructural, cultural and other organizational shifts required to support change

COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES

We help communities engage multiple strategies to develop transformative programs and practices.

EDUCATIONAL CONSULTING FOR A BETTER WORLD

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rofessional Learning that supports Project-Based, Student-Centered and Identity-Responsive learning, geared toward interdisciplinary thinking, solution building, social action, self-expression, effective intercultural dialogue, collaboration, and the exploration of cultural and personal identity.

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esources that cater to teachers' and leaders' specific needs as they work toward student-centered, identity-responsive practices and shift mindsets in their communities.

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nternational Collaborations & Travel program development, including international home stay and service learning support. Scholarship development to ensure equitable access for all learners.

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etworking with other educators around the world, providing practical partnerships with educational networks and inspiring creative avenues for teaching and leading work on more controversial topics.

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ollaborative Professional Learning that inspires change and provides strategies for student-centered, identity-responsive teaching and learning, including interdisciplinary project development, spatial proficiency and flexible use of learning spaces, student-directed evaluation, and leading such work in resistant contexts.

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ntegration of identity-responsive, learner-centered and intercultural competency development across the curriculum, and support for mainstreaming global topics and pluralistic understandings across all grade levels and disciplines.

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edagogies that keep learners in the center, help your students build critical thinking, intercultural competencies and problem-solving skills, and support personalization and rightful presence so every learner thrives.

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eadership Support in contexts that make it challenging--and even illegal--to support all learners, educators and families, including a myriad of strategies for navigating resistance and fostering buy-in across the community.

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quity-driven support, at all levels of schools, districts and organizations, to ensure practices honor all learners, educators and caregivers with the opportunities and support they need to thrive.

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iversity and Pluralism that help learners, leaders, educators and caregivers to understand and honor the needs of others, including strategies that help all community members to develop authentic understanding and compassion for the experience of others.

We work with students, teachers, leaders and organizational networks to foster culturally-responsive practices that ensure equity and inclusion for all. Identity-responsive education for diversity, equity and inclusion strives to...

Ensure educators work from an asset mindset about cultural differences and other elements of identity, seeking to leverage students' skills, identities, values and family histories in positive ways.
Guarantee inclusion and equity through pedagogies that offer multiple pathways through learning.
Foster intercultural dialogue and understanding across all circles of community, to ensure a deep sense of belonging and safety for all community members.
Address inclusion and equity challenges through projects that take on hard topics like racism, stereotyping, and other elements of students' lived experiences.

To ensure the success of innovation and equity efforts in their communities, school leaders need to plan deeper changes that support those shifts, including the following:

Ensure that deeper cultural shifts are effective, including developing inspiration, vision and buy-in from all constituents (caregivers, teachers, school board, investors, etc.).
Help leaders develop governance structures and leadership approaches that unite their community in constructive collaboration, addressing division and resistance through participant-centered problem-solving, reconciliation and restorative practices.
Support leaders with specific governance challenges, including strategic planning, professional learning programming, communications, data collection, hiring and onboarding, and more.
Ensure that the physical infrastructure supports student-centered learning, including flexible furniture, collaborative learning spaces, and more.

Project-Based Learning, in complement with strategies from Design Thinking and other constructivist methodologies, fosters students' skills for our times while simultaneously ensuring deep, transferable academic learning. High quality Project-Based Learning strives to...

Place students as central investigators and protagonists in their education, increasing motivation and engagement.
Ensure all projects meet academic standards across disciplines, through identifying, understanding and solving authentic challenges.
Use formative evaluation and cycles of feedback and revision to ensure every student reaches their highest level of success.
Place student voice at the heart of all school culture, ensuring that school improvement starts from our most important stakeholders.

Global Education focuses on the development of students' global competencies through globally- and locally-relevant projects that address real challenges. High-quality global education includes...

Global partnerships that allow students to learn from and with students and experts around the world.
Global projects that allow students to solve real global and local issues in equitable ways.
The intentional development and use of global and intercultural competencies, including constructive critical dialogue on controversial topics.
Opportunities to collaborate and co-create with young leaders around the world, building students' networks and ensuring they learn to engage with the world with an asset lens.

CLIENT STORIES

My school life was completely changed after Jennifer's addition to the school. She brought humanity, self-awareness and awoke our sense of individual and collective responsibility in Caobos. She made us feel important and heard since day one...

Valentina Gaviria

University Student

Gimnasio Los Caobos

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CLIENT STORIES

Ms. Jennifer D. Klein is one of the most innovative and inspiring educators that I have met in my professional career...

June Ubukata

Director, Communications and Special Exchange Projects

Japan-United States Educational Commission (Fulbright Japan)

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CLIENT STORIES

Jennifer D. Klein is an amazing educator and facilitator. I have been able to witness incredible transformations in teachers...

Meghan Casey

Country Director, Teach United

Owner Chilamate Rainforest Eco Retreat

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CLIENT STORIES

After working with Jennifer and Global PBL, our instructional coaches and curricular leaders were supported with strategies in facilitation and planning to help teachers develop intentional project based learning units with relevant launches to engage students in developing social and global awareness - uncovering the purpose and value of what they were learning, while empowering them to own the learning process.

Melanie Henning

MS/HS Instructional Coach

American School Foundation of Monterrey (Mexico)

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