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Origin/Scope

Quantum Learning's origins began in 1982 when Learning Forum started an academic and life skills youth program called SuperCamp. SuperCamp's instructional methodology serves as the foundation for the Quantum Learning schoolwide model. The first Quantum Learning program began in 1991, and now more than 80 schools in 11 states have adopted the model schoolwide. Over 12,000 teachers have been trained in Quantum Learning through schoolwide, districtwide, regional, and public trainings.

General Approach

Quantum Learning is an integrated school model designed to initiate change, enhance teacher capacity, and increase student achievement. A primary goal of the model is to create school environments that are engaging and dynamic. Components of the model focus on leadership, researched-based teaching methods, cognitive psychology, learning and life skills, parent and community involvement, and school improvement through evaluation. The model seeks to make content more meaningful and relevant to student's lives. Quantum Learning is based on three core beliefs: (1) all people can learn; (2) people learn differently; and (3) learning is effective when it is engaging and challenging.

Quantum Learning is based on Eight Keys of Excellence and the Tenets of Learning. The Tenets include: Everything Speaks, Everything is On Purpose, Experience Before Label, Acknowledge Every Effort, and If It's Worth Learning, It's Worth Celebrating. A set of policies, agreements, procedures, and rules guide school governance and support QL practice.

QL for Teachers includes 40 hours of training, delivered as a five-day summer program or spread throughout the year. These initial sessions are followed by approximately 40 hours of training including reinforcement sessions, lesson design, facilitated collaborations, and classroom coaching. QL trains teachers in effective presentation and facilitation that supports classroom management. QL facilitators at the school provide classroom coaching classroom observations, coaching in the moment, modeling QL methodologies, and providing end-of-day debriefing.

QLN created an alliance with Rubicon, creators of Atlas, a curriculum mapping web application. Schools implementing Quantum Learning take part in the mapping process. This process is designed to help teachers and administrators align curriculum with school and state standards, track and implement educational goals, highlight best practices, facilitate benchmark assessment planning and testing, and evaluate test results as they relate to curriculum plans.