Melissa Leighty, MEd
Melissa is an education content specialist with over 15 years of experience as a classroom teacher and deep expertise in education research and leadership. She holds two postgraduate degrees in education, including a Master’s in Educational Leadership. As Content Marketing Specialist at Learnlife, she writes about learner autonomy, wellbeing, and meaningful learning experience design.
Impuls digital: Inspiring a passion for learning in Catalunya
Learnlife trained over 85 educators in passion-based learning, promoting learner-centred education and innovation in 10 schools in Catalunya.
Rwanda: Lessons in Resilience, Community & Hope
Learnlife's transformative Rwanda trip offers learners a rare opportunity to build deep cultural and socio-emotional learning.
A Human-centred Approach to Secondary Maths
Learnlife's human-centred approach to secondary maths transforms the conventional classroom paradigm into a dynamic, personalised and purposeful learning adventure.
Meet Claudio: Learnlife’s Design Alchemist Crafting Creativity and Connection
Meet Claudio, one of Learnlife’s passionate studio experts, who orchestrates a symphony of cross-disciplinary learning daily. He moulds spaces where creativity thrives, inspiring learners to explore and develop a fusion of diverse skill sets while building their personal learning journey.
Five Fonts of Inspiration for Educators, Leaders and Edupreneurs
What inspires us? Enjoy five fonts of inspiration for educators, leaders and edupreneurs hand-picked by our team.
The Future School: A thinkpiece summary
We recently posted about a hugely influential thinkpiece published by the UCL Centre for Educational Leadership, in which Valerie Hannon discusses the nature of "The Future School". Learnlife was included as a reference point in this study, but we found the overall approach to be of great interest and provocation for discussion.
Reimagining 2050: the learning environment in a VUCA world
Future skills and 21st century learning for a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) world. In education, we are immersed in such framing and terminology as we develop learner-directed and purposeful learning approaches to support the emergence of a new generation who can actually thrive in the future.
Nature-based learning for literacy and numeracy
We have lost connection with our natural world, and taken a wrong turn somewhere. But for our children, we can begin to repair this and retake our place as part of the living world. And you know what? We can learn a lot of great stuff along the way. Here’s how we do it.