The Future of Learning

FLoW21 is a community-wide journey to transform the school experience to maximize learning for each individual student. Like no other school, WAB will know your child and customize the learning experience to best prepare him or her for a rapidly changing future.

WAB is constantly striving to improve the high quality education we provide.

After meeting with students, teachers and parents, we filtered down thousands of data points into 21 key objectives and understandings that will guide us into our school’s future of learning by 2021 and beyond. At the heart of FLoW21 is the belief that learners need to be at the center of their education to get the best learning gains. We want to teach them not only how to be life-long learners, but disciplined minds.

It is our goal to enable our exceptional teachers by breaking down some of the traditional structures they are working in and putting new ones in place. This flexible, innovative approach opens the classroom to the real world and will encourage and guide truly student-centered learning – all while affirming WAB’s founding principles and core values.

Stay up to date with the latest FLoW21 news and resources on the FLoW21 microsite.

FOEN2019 was a truly immersive, global conference about dynamic change, delivered by a school going through dynamic change.

FLoW21 will explore:

An even stronger culture of learning
Co-constructed and personally relevant curriculum
Self-directed learning
Real-world, practical engagement
Inquiry-driven learning
Individualized schedules and time
Flexible, diverse, variable spaces and learner groups
Individualized instruction and teaching
Collegial coaching and mentoring
Team teaching
Adaptive support network for all learners

We believe the most significant learning gains are achieved when:

Learners are engaged in creative thinking and actions built on strong foundations of skills, knowledge, and understanding
Learners and teachers are afforded time and space to develop and maintain personally relevant and meaningful relationships
Learners and teachers are engaged in important and purposeful work that inspires, connects, challenges and is intended to make a difference
Learners take responsibility for and ownership of their learning
Teachers are both content experts and master educators

FLoW21 Voices

What does our diverse community think about FLoW21?

As a parent I feel I’ve made the right choice to have my daughter grow up in a community of learning that consciously and constantly improves itself.

Kathy Ferrer, WAB Parent

Through FLoW21, WAB will develop a new culture that truly empowers students and gives them the knowledge and tools they need to create the best future for themselves.

Alinnah Qiao, WAB Student