Our Philosophy

“To be a leader, you have to walk the walk and talk the talk and learn along the way.”

All CES learning environments are designed and delivered to walk the talk of our Human Learning System™ and the CES Instructional Ecosystem™ to promote educational equity through dignity, self-mastery, engagement, and personal relevance.

The Human Learning System (HLS) is a framework and model created to describe how we can design and deliver effective learning experiences. A learning experience is any process by which human beings gain knowledge and/or skills, practice skills and strategies, discuss what and how they are learning, and demonstrate their learning progress. The HLS Framework is centered on the learner and learning activities are developed to ensure learner dignity, self-regulation, self-mastery, and metacognition. 

The HLS Framework can be applied to any content for any learner. Content is delivered in ways that focus on the learner’s needs, learning progress, and scaffold content mastery over time. Not all learners learn at the same pace or in the same way, so individualized adjustments are made to meet the learner where they are. The learning environment provides multiple opportunities for learner expressiveness, agency, efficacy, resilience, and self-directedness through robust project based learning, service learning, and reflective practice. Teacher/facilitators apply a variety of interactive strategies that make learning visible.