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Italian school transformation

Rai3 Coverage of the transformation of a school in Brescia, with interviews of teachers and teenagers.

Opening of a disruptive learning lab

This French interview of John Rizzo relates the origins and the reasons for opening a school in Brussels that other teachers can visit to learn how … to stop teaching and become coaches in a personalized learning environment.

Why create a European innovation center?

Fanny Demeulder and John Rizzo describe in French the EU disruptive learning lab that they are creating with the mission of training teachers from traditional schools.

How is a transformed school different?

Paul-Benoit de Monge and John Rizzo explain how a class could be different from a simultaneous teaching traditional school. In French.

How is an “opal” school?

John Rizzo explains how transforming a school into a personalized learning environment is similar to transforming an amber/orange company into an opal one. In French.

TEDx – Back to the Future

This 2018 TEDx in French explains our method with a new lab schools for 9-18 years as illustration. At some point, a gifted student joins John Rizzo on stage to explain her challenges and benefits from that kind of self-paced autonomous and collaborative learning.

TEDx – Misfits – 2020 English

An ADHD dyslexic teenager describes his chaotic misfit school journey before joining the SchoolTransformationLab project one year ago. Then John Rizzo comes on stage to show a traditional public school after 6 weeks of transformation, where that student is now registered.

International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation 2021

Panagiotis Psomos (GR) and John Rizzo (BE) are speakers of that academic conference with 2 accepted papers:

How to turn a traditional class into a personalized learning environment?
Soft skills development in a personalized learning environment.