About Agile Classrooms

Agile Classrooms is a practical framework for classrooms where students take more ownership of their learning, and teachers have clearer structures for coaching, collaboration, and visible progress.

Some first used these practices with leadership teams and professional learning communities. Others brought them into classrooms, where the real learning began. Through that work, Agile Classrooms evolved into a framework grounded in real school use: clear enough to support teachers, flexible enough to work across contexts, and aligned with the kinds of collaboration, adaptability, and ownership students will need beyond school.

That evolution continues through a community of educators who are using the framework, experimenting in their own contexts, and sharing what works. John Miller is a Certified Scrum Trainer with Scrum Alliance, and Agile Classrooms remains grounded in both Agile practice and the realities of school.

Agile Classrooms has a companion framework for the adults in the building: Adaptive PLC. Where Agile Classrooms gives students a cycle for owning their learning, Adaptive PLC gives staff teams — PLCs, instructional teams, and school leaders — a cycle for owning their improvement. Same Agile roots, different audience. Schools often use them together so learning and improvement move on the same beat.