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Thoughts from the Leapfrog Learning Center in Shrewsbury

Part I

America’s education process is a multi-billion dollar industry that fails one third of its consumers. Bill Gates explained it best when he highlighted that the problem with our education system … is the system.   Prosperity in the global economy of tomorrow requires a complete education overhaul.  If you were free to change everything, how would you integrate technology into an optimal education process that is customized around the sophistication level and cultural perspective of our students?  Read all the parts of this proposal and hold on to your hat!!

The Leapfrog Learning Center started out on a simple quest to make learning fun and ended up discovering the basic dynamics of how children learn.  Eventually the principles we discovered evolved into a totally new education paradigm that promises to fundamentally change the dynamics of the learning process.  This initiative is revolutionary not because it proposes changing  how we teach but rather because it proposes adding to the priorities of what we teach.  The Leapfrog method promises to  give all children the skills to be happy, self-sufficient, and responsible adults.

How it Works >>This initiative  harnesses the dynamics of human nature to make learning fun, relevant, and interactive.  The heart of this process is a motivational curriculum that links learning academics to the things people care about.  It starts by harnessing play and entertainment preferences and evolves to use all the human nature engines that drive behavior.  It uses technology to change the way teachers and “smart” textbooks interact with students by enabling presentation of material to be customized around the sophistication level and cultural perspective of the students.  The result is an accelerated learning curve (targeting 12th grade proficiency by grade 10) and a process that works for every child.  The Leapfrog Learning Center has an 18 year track record proving “fun learning” enables average children to skip the first grade by age five!

When I discovered that “fun Learning” allowed every child to have outstanding achievement levels, I realized that personality (not IQ) is the primary variable that determines achievements in school.    Nurturing socialization skills and emotional maturity (and all the characteristics of “high functioning behavior”) are not just fuzzy, philanthropic goals but are fundamental to the attitudes that determine academic performance.  Perhaps most important, I discovered that if education is driven by high levels of motivation then the time required to teach academics can be  greatly shortened.  This means that a motivational presentation format enables us to add new curriculum priorities without compromising literacy.  And this allows us to change everything!

Imagine, for a moment, what  life would be like if the solution to the education crisis  could teach  people the skills to be happy!

Visit the leapfrog learning center nj and see where the solution to the education crisis evolved

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