Student-Centered Facilitator of Learning
COLLABORATIVE
REIMAGINE
a journey the student owns
where everyone is seen, heard, and understood.
A professional learning collaborative for K–12 teachers that starts with five days together in Atlanta and continues online through the summer, while you plan for the year ahead.
Kickoff Week in Atlanta, Georgia | June 7 – 11, 2027
Overview
The student owns the journey. The teacher makes it worthwhile.
From the founder
When I was new to the profession, the titles teacher and educator did not sit quite right with me, so I chose to call myself a student-centered facilitator of learning. My approach was that the student owned the educational journey, and it was my job to make it worthwhile.
I have always tried to manage the content I taught around the needs of my students. At first I created authentic learning experiences by writing math problems for students to solve based on their hobbies and interests. That was too time consuming to customize for every student. When I created a conics lesson on parabolas, ellipses, and hyperbolas with stations that allowed every student to have a different outcome, I was able to reimagine my approach to authentic learning experiences for my students. Because I am a Type 4A personality, I needed to put my ideas on paper so I could understand my own thought process. That is how the REIMAGINE framework was born.
The framework is something you live rather than something you memorize. Once it takes hold, it changes the questions you ask while you plan and what you notice about each student while you teach. That shift in mindset stays with you long after the collaborative ends.
Dr. Maple, Founder
What you take with you
The ability to design one lesson plan that gives every student an authentic, unique learning experience, and to adapt it quickly, class period by class period, for the students actually sitting in front of you.
The Framework
Creating Authentic Learning Experiences
Working within state standards and the required curriculum, teachers can transform the content they already teach into authentic learning experiences every student owns by reimagining how they plan and deliver it.
Traditional authentic learning is built on the interests of each student. This approach is built on the actual learning and how each student approaches it. Nine components give teachers a way to actively consider the content they are required to teach, the students sitting in front of them, and what makes that content relevant to those students. Those considerations shape one interactive plan that holds up no matter which path a student takes.
The process was developed to meet a need in the founder's mathematics classroom, but it works in any content area.
REIMAGINE
For any educational journey to succeed, both teachers and students have to be seen, heard, and understood.
Seen
In what ways is the lesson producing what you expected?
To what extent are you making reasoning visible?
How are you creating an authentic learning experience?
Heard
In what ways can all students find something that is genuinely theirs?
To what extent are you finding evidence of thinking?
How are you making it safe to reason out loud?
Understood
In what ways have you allowed students to build understanding?
To what extent are students able to decide that the content is worth learning?
How are you allowing students to own the journey?
Who Should Attend
For everyone who shapes how students experience the content
K–12 teachers
Any grade and any subject, including secondary mathematics, where the framework began. Teachers come from across the country and can register on their own.
Teacher leaders
Instructional coaches, department chairs, and model teachers who will bring the framework back to their colleagues.
School and district leaders
Professional development providers, administrators, principals, and district decision makers who support teachers in this work.
The Collaborative
Twelve weeks of reimagining together
The collaborative runs for 12 weeks, beginning June 7, 2027, and carries you through the summer while you plan for the new school year and into the first couple of weeks of school.
- An asynchronous course with explanations of the framework, activities, and tools
- A space to collaborate with other teachers in your content area and school level
- Membership in the alumni collaborative at no cost once your cohort ends
Kickoff Week in Atlanta is an added bonus. If you choose not to attend, you can still enroll in the collaborative and complete it through the asynchronous course, which includes everything covered in the Kickoff Week group and breakout sessions.
Kickoff Week
Atlanta, Georgia | June 7 – 11, 2027
Approximately 500 K–12 teachers and educational professionals from across the United States enrolled in the Student-Centered Facilitator of Learning Collaborative will meet in Atlanta to REIMAGINE a journey the student owns as they embrace the framework, go on field trips, enjoy foods from various cultures, and collaborate with their content and school level peers.
Field Trips
Cultural Cuisine
Gifts & Prizes
Team Building| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AM | Group 1 | Field Trips | Work Sessions | Field Trips | Work Sessions | Field Trips |
| Group 2 | Work Sessions | Field Trips | Work Sessions | Field Trips | Work Sessions | |
| PM | Group 1 | Work Sessions | Field Trips | Work Sessions | Field Trips | Work Sessions |
| Group 2 | Field Trips | Work Sessions | Field Trips | Work Sessions | Field Trips |
Payment
Three ways to pay
Pay now
Pay securely with PayPal when you register.
Pay by invoice
Register now and receive an invoice. Payment is due within four weeks of registering.
Purchase order
Schools and districts can register with a purchase order. Payment is due within four weeks of registering.
One tuition covers the collaborative, whether or not you attend Kickoff Week.
Reserve Your SeatTuition
What's included
- Kickoff Week in Atlanta, an added bonus for those who attend
- Sessions
- Field trips
- Framework documentation
- Meals: breakfast and a small plate lunch each day
- Team building activities
- The 12 week collaborative, including the asynchronous course and collaboration space
- Certificates of participation
- Membership in the alumni collaborative
Not included
- Travel, lodging, and dinner
Refunds & Substitutions
Dates to know
To request a refund or a substitution, email carol.maple@promiselearningatl.com with your name and the name of your substitute, if you have one.
Completion Certificates
Two certificates of participation
- Kickoff Week: 40 hours of professional learning for those who attend in Atlanta
- The Collaborative: 30 hours of professional learning for completing the course
Check with your school or district about how these hours apply to your certificate renewal.
Questions?
I would love to hear from you.
Email carol.maple@promiselearningatl.com with any questions about the collaborative, registration, or bringing a group from your district.
Reserve your seat
The collaborative begins June 7, 2027
Kickoff Week in Atlanta, Georgia
The student owns the journey. The teacher makes it worthwhile.
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