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Luminary Partnership Program

The Luminary Partnership Program (LPP) connects role models in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics with K-12 students, enabling them to learn directly from the lives and achievements of those who have made significant contributions and through/with to their fields.  Through videos tailored to different ages and areas of interests, students are able to explore a wide range of subjects, gain insights into the way luminaries pursue their goals, and learn how their innovation and entrepreneurship contribute to profitable enterprises focused around their ideas.

The LPP develops a database of the world's greatest thinkers and makes it available to anyone with an Internet connection. The program supports teachers with readily available content and empowers all students, regardless of their ethnic background, gender, or learning styles, to pursue and learn about subjects from angles that are of specific interest to them.

The Learning Team’s Luminary Partnership Program is an important step toward creating a future of innovation and ingenuity for our children.

The Whole Child Initiative

Working in conjunction with The Orion Society, a national environmental organization and publisher of The Orion Magazine, The Whole Child Initiative intends to shift the focus of American schools away from Numbers-Driven Education Reform to The Education of the Whole Child.

Act it Out! -- A Whole Child Approach to Reading

Act It Out! is a Literacy Through Dramatic Arts booster program for schoolchildren, grades K - 8.  Instruction supports national and state language arts standards with dramatic arts concepts and practices.  Compelling instructional materials make kids feel like young actors as they read, write, speak and listen.

Each Act It Out! instructional package takes a classic work of children’s literature and produces it into a play performed by New York theater professionals working with children from selected public schools.  A series of drama-driven literacy units is expressly for use by teachers with no theatrical training or experience.

Green Power

To student Stanford Donne, it “makes learning fun.”  To teacher Jo Pelkki, it is a “good balance between factual material and entertainment.”  To Director of Scientific Research, Dr. Paul Mankiewcz, at the Center for the Restoration of Waters, Falmouth, MA, the “details are right... and the subject is alive”

That’s Green Power, a unique 3-part video series that creates an interactive learning environment about photosynthesis combining live action, time-lapse photography, animation and hands-on experimentation.  Ideal for grades 4 through 10, it reflects today’s most innovative learning theories about following role models, working together, conducting research and developing understanding.

Developed in conjunction with:

The Michigan Department of Education