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.
How Schools Prepare Children for an Uncertain Future
Our world is a VUCA world, but traditional education tries to shelter our children from that reality with a neatly packaged system that does nothing to help them prepare for an uncertain world. So what does VUCA learning look like, and what is at its core?
Nature-Based Learning: Why Learning in Nature Helps Children Thrive
Learning in nature moves education beyond the classroom into natural environments, using the outdoors as a powerful context for building knowledge, skills, and real-world understanding.
Learning Without Walls: How Learning Environments Shape Education
This article explores how learning environments shape the way children think, connect ideas, and apply skills, and how Learnlife’s Eco, Urban, and Village Hubs are designed to support interdisciplinary, real-world learning.
How does learning happen at Learnlife?
You may already know that we are a step beyond traditional school, helping learners ‘build their why’, but do you know the answer to the question, “how does learning happen at Learnlife?”