Profound Learning Institute (PLi), a division of Geenius,  is comprised of leading educators, technologists, brain researchers and institutions who are passionate about developing cost effective solutions to propel education into the 21st century.  The solutions we offer have been derived from decades of field experience working with schools around the world.  PLi has a compelling vision of the future, as well as  deep experience working with schools to  transform them into 21st century learning  models.

Our Mission and Vision

Profound Learning Institute’s mission is develop and disseminate solutions that will enable schools, districts, states and nations to transform their obsolete industrial age system of education to our model of Profound Learning that prepares students to be Future Ready.

At PLi we believe

• educators are tired and frustrated at having to work in an obsolete system that is causing high levels of stress and dissatisfaction for all involved. 
• educators want to work within a system where they are seen as who they really are: noble, highly motivated, competent, creative, passionate, caring, and professional individuals.
• the real problem with education is not the people, but with the system itself.   The real problem is how we go about transforming an obsolete system to one that is more effective and relevant. 
• real system transformation involves designing, building and implementing new system structures that will shift from a factory model to an individualized model enabling all students and teachers to attain excellence.
• in today’s knowledge and creative age, attaining high academic success is not enough. Students need to be equipped with Future Ready skills, such as innovation and creativity, that can be tracked over time.

PLi's vsion for education, called Profound Learning, involves the transformation of the traditional factory model of education, the "caterpillar" into the "butterfly" utilizing comprehensive teacher development, new systems for the delivery and management of learning which incorporates the latest neuroscience on learning  and  prepares students with measurable Future Ready skills.

At PLi, we offer an ecosystem of solutions:

• that is more cost effective
• where the vast majority of students achieve academic excellence
• where the learning journey for each student may be personalized
• where the time to learn is flexible and the quality of learning is rigid
• where student motivation with learning skyrockets as students engage in meaningful learning experiences
• where students, teachers and parents experience a level of JOY not possible in the traditional command and control system
• where teacher stress is reduced as students gain greater autonomy over their learning
• where teacher professional development results in alignment to vision and practice 
• that ultimately not only produces responsible, resilient, confident students prepared with Future Ready skills essential for the world of tomorrow, but is also able to track student personal growth

The PLi ecosystem includes:

• A proven comprehensive learning model for 21st century education called Profound Learning
• GEENIUS Learning Orchestration System (LOS), a web-based system, that provides the tools for planning, tracking, assessment and orchestration of individualized learning.  Our system allows schools to break away from the traditional assembly line approach to education.
• A comprehensive professional development program
• A complete system that will help districts create and implement their incremental transformation plan. The Profound Learning model of education has been field tested and proven successful in thousands of schools around the world.  

The PLi action plan is to penetrate the market starting with school districts that are already practicing aspects of our Profound Learning Model. In the US, David Langford, one of the executives of PLi has trained over 40,000 persons in various training venues since 1992.  This represents approximately 8,000 schools.  These teachers, as well as whole school districts, are already teaching the foundation principles of Profound Learning and are aware of the Profound Learning Institute.  Our business model is to start with these teachers, schools, and school districts. Educators tend to be followers, so as we demonstrate success which is readily shared among teachers, we will create viral growth in our business. Our most effective marketing tool will be these teachers, schools and school districts that are achieving success through the application of PLi's learning models.

What makes us different 

• Our learning models have been proven in classrooms around the world and have developed by visionary educators 
• We have a patented Adaptive Knowledge Retention System that has been proven to transfer knowledge to 80-90% into long-term memory vs the typical 5%
• PLi's Chief Science Officer, a leading neuroscience researcher and author of "Cracking the Learning Code" is ensuring that PLi solutions are designed to leverage the latest understanding of neuroscience
• We have a live research K-12 school of 700 students that enables us to prototype and field test many of the breakthrough concepts that are embedded into our solutions
• We provide easy to use tools for teachers to develop rich and meaningful learning experiences that can be shared with other teachers.  All learning experiences are mapped back to the state or national curriculum.  
• Schools that have implemented the core principles of Profound Learning have demonstrated academic performance that far exceeds national and state norms. Students at PLi's prototype school in Calgary Canada are outperforming provincial standards by almost 400%.  The provincial average of students attaining "Excellence" or "Proficiency" level is 20%, at PLi's prototype school 79% of students are attaining excellence with 100% achievable acceptable or a passing grade.
• Our learning model focuses on the development of clearly defined Future Ready skills and capacities with the signature being innovation and creativity.  Our Profound Learning model and the GEENIUS LOS is one of the only systems that intentionally tracks student development of becoming Future Ready. We view the future readiness of students as of equal importance as their academic performance.