The RELAY Learner

What a RELAY learner becomes.

RELAY makes a student’s confusion visible to the teacher who can act on it, before a grade ever enters the picture. These are the traits that honesty grows.

The eight traits of a RELAY learner

The RELAY Learner: eight traits in the outer ring, four ways of growing in the middle ring, and the learner at the centre. Wondering Owning Persisting Connecting Curious Reflective Principled Integrity Resilient Self-Directed Collaborative Future-Ready THE RELAY LEARNER

As RELAY learners, we aim to be

  1. Wondering

    Curious

    We nurture the habit of asking before we’re expected to already know. Curiosity is welcomed here, not something to outgrow.

  2. Wondering

    Reflective

    We check our own understanding honestly, and say so when something hasn’t landed. That admission costs nothing, because there is no grade riding on it.

  3. Owning

    Principled

    We act with the same honesty whether or not anyone is watching. What we say we understand is what we actually understand.

  4. Owning

    Integrity

    We tell the truth about our own learning, even when it would be easier to look like we’ve got it. Honesty is the whole mechanism.

  5. Persisting

    Resilient

    We treat confusion as useful information, not failure. A wrong turn is something to come back from, not hide.

  6. Persisting

    Self-Directed

    We take ownership of the gaps in our own understanding, and close them while there is still a lesson left to change things.

  7. Connecting

    Collaborative

    We share what we don’t understand in the open, trusting a teacher who is listening in real time, not waiting for a result.

  8. Connecting

    Future-Ready

    We build the habit of understanding before performance. It is a skill that outlasts any single test.

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  • Outer ring: the traits they develop
  • Middle ring: how they grow as learners
  • Centre: the learner

Every student’s confusion, heard.
Every teacher, in the loop, in real time.

The RELAY Learner describes eight habits our tools are built to grow. We believe every student is capable of this kind of honesty, when it costs them nothing to show it.

See it in a classroom

Habits like these are built lesson by lesson.

See what RELAY asks of a student, and what it hands back to their teacher while the lesson can still change.

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