GLIDE

The GLIDE Method is a new educational paradigm that seeks to build on what we have learned about education. It will incorporate the best elements of the past with the most important developments of today and of the near future. GLIDE will introduce the concept of “learning while moving”, student self-awareness and societal consciousness among other innovative concepts. It will help educate children in a more relevant and research-based way, with a focus on practical lessons, to create the citizens of the future with the greatest fulfilled potential. In GLIDE, we aim not only to have our students understand their potential, but expand far beyond it. GLIDE is an acronym for Generating Lifelong Interest in Deeper Education - and that is exactly what we are trying to foster in these classes. The GLIDE Method also focuses on teaching practical real life information that the current educational system is blind to. Critical information such as how the financial system works, what credit scores are and how to maximise them, how students can understand their own and other people's psychology are just some of the elements of real life learning that are incorporated into GLIDE. This knowledge is often critical information for a functioning adult in today’s society. Knowledge has undergone many levels of development in the last 3000 years, in many different parts of the planet, and we should seek to incorporate as much of that as is possible. As the great scientist Sir Isaac Newton said in 1675 in a letter to Robert Hooke, “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” We believe it is important to understand and appreciate who these giants are, so students can develop a deep understanding for the process humanity went through to acquire the knowledge in the world today. For that reason, GLIDE lessons always connect with an important historical figure that was relevant to developing the foundational knowledge of what they are being taught.