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.
The Changing Role of Educators: From Teaching to Guiding Learning
The role of teachers is changing. Learn how learner-centred education and learning guides help children develop critical thinking, autonomy, and real-world skills in modern education.
The word and the why - the broken language of learning
At Learnlife, we are conscious of how we use words to describe learning, because we believe we have a responsibility to be part of something better. Join us on an exploration of the word, and the power it has to take us forward.
What is Your Ikigai?
We talk a lot about Ikigai at Learnlife, as a way of distinguishing something beyond passion or purpose. Ikigai is really your reason for being, and the thing that gives you direction and motivation, but we thought we would take this opportunity to zoom in a little bit more on the concept, and why it is at the heart of what we do.
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?”