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Creative Learning Systems Snapshot
Creative Learning Systems partners with the most innovative school and community leaders to provide personalized, project-based learning experiences and environments that increase student achievement through engaged, active, and social problem-solving. We ensure that today’s students will be tomorrow’s leaders, prepared to solve the complex challenges in our ever-changing world.
The Company:
Creative Learning Systems (“CLS”) develops and installs engaging STEM and digital media programs for elementary, middle, and high schools, which CLS has branded as SmartLabs. These programs align well with the market’s current desire for more student-centered, personalized learning.
Click here to watch a SmartLab in action
Since first creating a technology lab in a U.S. school in 1987, CLS has pioneered STEM and digital media arts programs and a related web-based curriculum in K-12 education. Together with partner schools across the country, CLS has put technology in the hands of students and engaged them with personalized, problem-solving-based learning. While the technologies behind CLS’s learning solutions are ever evolving, the guiding principles remain constant:
Engagement
Why: Engaged students are more focused in class, have fewer disciplinary issues, build stronger critical-thinking skills, and authentically connect to their learning.
How: We engage students in hand-on, project-based learning experiences that support and reinforce academic content- specifically STEM topics.
Empowerment
Why: Empowered learners become empowered adults who are equipped with next-gen skills required for post-secondary success.
How: We empower students to own their learning and approach challenges with creativity. This helps them develop the confidence needed to thrive in a rapidly evolving world.
Experiential
Why: When learners use age-appropriate, pre- and professional tools in real-world settings, they’re more prepared for college and career.
How: Through experiential learning, students connect real-world problem-solving to core academic content, which helps them make more informed decisions in the future.
Personalized
Why: When learners have voice and choice to determine which projects they want to pursue, they are more intrinsically motivated.
How: With open-ended engagements, educators and facilitators collaborate on projects that support their students’ achievement, while ensuring learners can pursue projects, they’re passionate about.
Collaborative
Why: Collaborative learning helps students develop high-level thinking, verbal communication, self-management, and leadership skills, which prepares them for post-secondary success.
How: We purposely build collaboration into our learning spaces. Through collaborative work, learners use critical thinking to make meaning of facts, develop communication skills as they present their learning, and creatively solve problems.
Creative Learning Systems is a rapidly growing company that was recapitalized by Brass Ring Capital (“BRC”) in February 2017. During BRC’s ownership. CLS has invested heavily in both operations and infrastructure and is ready to rapidly scale under the leadership of newly appointed CEO, Ashley Mathis.
BRC is a private investment firm focused exclusively on ownership transitions and opportunities to profitably grow companies to the next level. Its collaborative approach targets acquisitions and recapitalizations that provide owner-managers with the necessary resources to achieve their potential.
Creative Learning Systems (“CLS”) develops and installs engaging STEM and digital media programs for elementary, middle, and high schools, which CLS has branded as SmartLabs. These programs align well with the market’s current desire for more student-centered, personalized learning.
Click here to watch a SmartLab in action
Since first creating a technology lab in a U.S. school in 1987, CLS has pioneered STEM and digital media arts programs and a related web-based curriculum in K-12 education. Together with partner schools across the country, CLS has put technology in the hands of students and engaged them with personalized, problem-solving-based learning. While the technologies behind CLS’s learning solutions are ever evolving, the guiding principles remain constant:
Engagement
Why: Engaged students are more focused in class, have fewer disciplinary issues, build stronger critical-thinking skills, and authentically connect to their learning.
How: We engage students in hand-on, project-based learning experiences that support and reinforce academic content- specifically STEM topics.
Empowerment
Why: Empowered learners become empowered adults who are equipped with next-gen skills required for post-secondary success.
How: We empower students to own their learning and approach challenges with creativity. This helps them develop the confidence needed to thrive in a rapidly evolving world.
Experiential
Why: When learners use age-appropriate, pre- and professional tools in real-world settings, they’re more prepared for college and career.
How: Through experiential learning, students connect real-world problem-solving to core academic content, which helps them make more informed decisions in the future.
Personalized
Why: When learners have voice and choice to determine which projects they want to pursue, they are more intrinsically motivated.
How: With open-ended engagements, educators and facilitators collaborate on projects that support their students’ achievement, while ensuring learners can pursue projects, they’re passionate about.
Collaborative
Why: Collaborative learning helps students develop high-level thinking, verbal communication, self-management, and leadership skills, which prepares them for post-secondary success.
How: We purposely build collaboration into our learning spaces. Through collaborative work, learners use critical thinking to make meaning of facts, develop communication skills as they present their learning, and creatively solve problems.
Creative Learning Systems is a rapidly growing company that was recapitalized by Brass Ring Capital (“BRC”) in February 2017. During BRC’s ownership. CLS has invested heavily in both operations and infrastructure and is ready to rapidly scale under the leadership of newly appointed CEO, Ashley Mathis.
BRC is a private investment firm focused exclusively on ownership transitions and opportunities to profitably grow companies to the next level. Its collaborative approach targets acquisitions and recapitalizations that provide owner-managers with the necessary resources to achieve their potential.
