“The SmartLab HQ has helped me become more comfortable in my other classes by letting me know that it’s ok to make mistakes and I will eventually get it just like I do in the SmartLab.”
Students & Parents
Preparing Your Children for the Future
Prepare your children for the careers of tomorrow and inspire lifelong learning.
Ensuring your children, regardless of ability, are prepared for the future—that’s as much our goal as it is yours. With SmartLab Learning:
- Your children gain essential life skills like setting goals, identifying problems to solve, and managing their time to accomplish those goals.
- Your children gain the confidence to ask questions, find answers, and creatively develop effective solutions.
- While working in pairs, your children learn to break down silos, communicate, and gain a deeper cultural understanding of one another.
- Your children start projects with the goal in mind as they break complex processes into bite-sized chunks, which increases their likelihood of success.
- Your children gain the confidence to speak up, share their process, and collaborate on solutions.
Smartlab learninghub
Help students meet milestones and keep them engaged with hands-on learning.
SmartLab LearningHub—our online platform—comes stocked with our standards-aligned, project-based curriculum. Students can search for projects and document their learning and growth via their portfolio, while educators can monitor and assess their learners’ progress.
WHAT can SMARTLAB LEARNING DO?
SmartLab helps prepare your children to enter their post-secondary experience.
SmartLab Learning helps set your children up for success. While diving into hands-on STEM projects, they learn to become leaders, collaborators, and confident members of their community.
Promote Student Autonomy
In a SmartLab, we take the 3 Before Me approach: Learners need to go to three different resources before turning to their teacher for answers. This way they learn to rely on their own initiative, lean on peers, and become more digitally literate.
Gather Authentic Assessment
As your children complete projects that impact their community, they engage in hands- and minds-on learning that helps make complex concepts more concrete. Once finished, they use self-reflection to connect what they’re doing to what they’re learning in their math and science classes.
Provide Equitable Learning
Regardless of your child’s learning style, ability, or interests, they’ll soar with SmartLab Learning. Here, they experience hands-on exploration, follow their curiosity, and learn to try again when something doesn’t turn out as planned.
Introduce Leading-Edge Technology
Let’s get your learners engaged with our curated, age-appropriate, student-friendly technologies. These tools can support critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, and communication skills.
Explore SmartLab Learning Programs
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Self-Direction is an Essential Skill
Transforming the Classroom to Support Student-Directed Learning
Self-direction is an essential skill for students to be successful.
In this paper, you’ll learn how to implement three instructional strategies that help students develop self-direction, as well as related essential skills including collaboration, problem-solving, perseverance, and time-management skills.
Hear From Our Happy Clients
“It’s going to be fun for kids like me to just come into the SmartLab HQ and have a hands-on learning experience with coding and so many other things. It’s great to be able to use my imagination to create whatever I want.”
“In the SmartLab HQ, you find out what jobs you’re good at. And if you’re not good at something, you can be.”
Ready to start planning your own SmartLab?
We’re excited to hear from you. Let’s change the way your learners engage with math and science–in and outside the classroom.
