
Applied Learning Leadership Programming
The One8 Foundation is committed to preparing students for success in a rapidly changing, data-rich world. One8 works with leaders who are at the forefront of this work through the implementation of high-quality Applied Learning programs, such as OpenSciEd, PBLWorks, Project Lead The Way, and ST Math.
What is Applied Learning?
Applied Learning inspires students with an innovative, engaging way to approach core and elective subject matter. Using proven programs and approaches, AL serves as the next instructional leap in education.
Through collaboration and iteration, learners apply knowledge to discover the answers to real-world questions – developing lasting comprehension by learning how to solve complex problems and why what they learn is relevant in everyday life.
Features of Quality Applied Learning
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Shifts the cognitive demand to students by posing meaningful, real-world problems.
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Pairs content knowledge and soft skills.
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Requires iteration and persistence, valuing failure and feedback.
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Enriches student learning through communication and collaboration.
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Frames problems from the perspective of professionals to help students understand who uses it in the real world (in the upper grades).

Applied Learning Leadership Discovery Program
Discovery Program applications are closed for the SY24-25 cohort. Please reach out to Sissela ([email protected]) with any questions.
The Discovery Program allows school leadership teams to explore strong Applied Learning practices and reflect on opportunities to bring these practices back to their own schools. The program is centered around a set of energizing and thought-provoking school visits. These school visits will be dually focused — designed to spur new thinking and provide immediately implementable strategies to improve a school’s Applied Learning programs.

Applied Learning Leadership Institute

The Applied Learning Leadership Institute
The Applied Learning Leadership Institute (ALLI) allows cohorts of school leadership teams to collaborate on expanding high-quality Applied Learning in their schools and shifting the cognitive demand to students through a series of facilitated working sessions and school. School leadership teams, led by the Principal, identify a local problem of practice, work through cycles of designing, piloting, and iterating on strategies that respond to the problem, and analyze student impact data. In addition, teams participate in two rounds of school visits designed to spur creativity and new thinking. See more information here. Applications for the 2024-2025 cohort are now closed.

Participating ALLI Schools
Cohort 1 (SY23-24): Dr. Philip O. Coakley Middle School (Norwood), Henry Lord Community School (Fall River), Memorial Middle School (Fitchburg), Millbury Junior/Senior High, Nipmuc Regional High (Mendon-Upton), O’Bryant School of Math & Science (Boston), Randolph Community Middle, Westfield High School, Worcester Technical High School
Cohort 2 (SY24-25): Ayer Shirley Regional Middle School, Blackstone Millville Regional High School, Cyrus Peirce (Nantucket), Danvers High School, Dedham Middle School, Hoosac Valley High School, Hoosac Valley Middle School, Hopedale Jr Sr High School, Kiley Academy (Springfield), Miscoe Hill School (Mendon-Upton), Robert J. Coelho Middle School (Attleboro), Sandwich Middle High School, Silver Lake Regional Middle School, Stoneham Central Middle School, Westfield Middle School
SY24-25 Participating Discovery Schools
William H Galvin Middle School (Canton), Holten Richmond Middle School (Danvers), Charlton Middle School (Dudley-Charlton), Matthew J Kuss Middle School (Fall River), Morton Middle School (Fall River), Talbot Innovation School (Fall River), Grafton Middle School (Grafton), King Philip Middle School (King Philip), Lynnfield Middle School (Lynnfield), Medway High School (Medway), Medway Middle School (Medway), Nantucket High School (Nantucket), North Brookfield High School (North Brookfield), Pembroke High School (Pembroke), Theodore Herberg Middle School (Pittsfield), Plymouth Intermediate (Plymouth), Silver Lake Regional High School (Silver Lake), Benjamin Friedman Middle School (Taunton), Westfield Intermediate School (Westfield)

Contact
Have questions? Want more information? Contact Sissela Tucker, the Director for Educator Network Design, at [email protected]
