“Our focus at Higher Ground has always been on pedagogical reform,” said Ray Girn, CEO of Higher Ground and former teacher and curriculum developer. Higher Ground will use the Altitude Learning platform to host original, custom-designed curriculum, to enable a Montessori-informed assessment framework, and to ensure the seamless transfer of children and families across the Higher Ground network as they grow and as their life circumstances change. The collaboration fuses Higher Ground’s pedagogical expertise and vision with Altitude Learning’s technology to enable parents, students and educators to seamlessly access curriculum or training no matter where they reside. The Altitude Learning platform empowers educators to create powerful, student-centered experiences that are grounded in research about how children learn best, and it features a unique interface and assessment framework that scaffold and amplify a learner’s ability to engage in valuable self-directed learning.īy bringing the technology in-house, Higher Ground will be able to continue investment in its development and expand the scope and reach of the organization’s current offerings while ensuring seamless ongoing access to the core platform-for its own schools, for its partners, and for Altitude Learning’s growing network of partners.
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Since its inception, Altitude Learning has been building a learner-centered ecosystem supporting schools and districts with professional learning and tools to facilitate the shift to learner-centered education. Altitude Learning will deepen its focus on catalyzing the shift to learner-centered education and expanding the learner-centered ecosystem through services and solutions-including professional learning, coaching, strategic consulting, and partner support-for schools, districts, and systems.
Higher Ground will assume ownership of Altitude Learning’s technology platform, an industry-leading learning management system that enables learner-centered education, by bringing the Altitude Learning technology platform and engineering team in-house to help expand the depth and breadth of its current offerings. LAKE FOREST, CA - Higher Ground Education, Inc., the leading network of schools dedicated to Montessori education, and Altitude Learning, a leader in learner-centered education, today announced a new phase in their partnership poised to accelerate and scale Montessori and learner-centered education throughout the US and beyond. Together the organizations will impact over 1 million students worldwide. Altitude Learning’s learner-centered ecosystem supports a growing network of 120+ schools and districts across the United States.
Altitude Learning, a leader in learner-centered education, will deepen its focus on supporting widescale adoption of learner-centered methodologies across ecosystems, further realizing its mission to catalyze and accelerate the shift to learner-centered education.
Higher Ground Education, a super-user of the Altitude Learning platform which it leverages to enable parents, students and educators to seamlessly access Montessori-inspired education or training, no matter where they reside, will directly own the underlying platform that powers its diverse programs, accelerating its mission to power the global growth of Montessori pedagogy.Higher Ground will assume ownership of Altitude Learning’s technology platform, an industry-leading LMS that enables learner-centered educationīuilding on their shared vision of changing the world through education and a long-standing partnership supporting Montessori and learner-centered education, Higher Ground Education and Altitude Learning are collaborating to extend their collective impact and accelerate progress toward each organization’s mission.
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