When Shawnee Heights Unified School District 450 first considered using the Quantum Learning professional development system for teachers years ago, Laura Hurla asked the school board to think back to their years as students and remember who their favorite teachers were.
Hurla, now an instructional coach at Berryton Elementary, asked the board to go a little further than just those teachers names and to think about what it was that made those teachers their favorite. Most likely, those teachers were doing these strategies that we re including in Quantum Learning, Hurla said.
Now, after a year of shifting learning strategies to accommodate COVID-19 while following the concepts set out in the teacher training program, Berryton is the first school in the U.S. to achieve the program s Quantum Learning School designation.