The Deep Dive Blueprint
Deeper Learning School Design
Every system is perfectly designed to get the outcomes it gets.
If your students aren’t demonstrating the character, skills, and engagement you hope for, it’s because your school is designed to produce the outcomes you’re seeing now.
...but it doesn’t have to be that way
What if you had the right blueprint to go deep?
A high test score is a symptom of a well-educated kid.
But you know in your heart of hearts…
It’s not the goal.
What if you could achieve strong assessment outcomes—state tests, ACT, interim assessments—while also engaging students in compelling, meaningful work?
What if you could meet the demands of the mandates while developing kids’ character, seeing them for who they are, and building on their unique strengths?
What if school was a place where students didn’t just learn facts, but discovered themselves and the world around them?
The Deep Dive Blueprint.
School: Designed for humans
The Deep Dive Blueprint …
Drawing from 25 years of school design experience—including models like Expeditionary Learning, the deeper learning practices of the Coalition of Essential Schools, and High Tech High—we’ll help you craft a master plan for transformation.
With experience as a camp counselor, leadership training director, classroom teacher, principal, head of teaching and learning, and senior leader at a major nonprofit transforming schools nationwide…
we know the journey.
And we can help you design a school worthy of our kids...
Here’s where we stand out…
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Set up enduring community-driven 5-year, 1-year and short cycle goals and strategy to match your vision.
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Every system is set up to get the outcomes it gets. Do you like your outcomes? No? Thats’s because of the system. The good news? People made the systems so we can change them.
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We don’t learn from information, and we don’t even learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on engaging experiences — let’s design those together.
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A team is a group of people who trust each other on a common mission. But individuals don’t become a high-functioning team naturally… it has to be intentional.
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Cultivate the necessary conditions foster deeper, lasting learning. These feel abstract, but there are real tools to foster these needed conditions.
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If you want lasting learning, get out of the way and let your learners lead. Can they do it yet? Of course not. Neither could you when you started. Can set up experiences where they learn as much about themselves and their leadership as they do the skills and topic? Absolutely!
Let’s get to work.
Why work with Ryan for your Deeper Learning School Design?
I have had the privilege of working with Ryan Maxwell for decades. He holds a bright vision of high student achievement, beautiful work, deeper learning, equity, and character, and is grounded in the practical experience of the day to day challenges of schools and school improvement.
Ryan has expertly coached some of the very best leaders and schools that I know. He earns the trust of teachers, leaders, and students by the sterling personal character and respect he brings to all partners.
Ron Berger, Author of Ethic of Excellence
You don’t have to do this alone.
(Could you?)
Sure.
But it would take twice as long
& be five times as hard.
Instead, let’s draft, design, and make it happen together—turning vision into reality with a solid design…
