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Learning through curiosity, experience, experimentation, reflection, and the freedom to grow from challenges.
An Original Human-Centered Learning Framework
Growth · Identity · Grace · Intention
A human-centered framework for learning and living, grounded in experience, storytelling, reflection, and meaningful connection across generations and throughout life.
01 / The Foundation
Created by Jeanette Gil, The GIGI Method™ is an original, research-informed framework connecting human-centered education, lived experience, identity, social-emotional awareness, and intentional learning.
Learning is not confined to classrooms or childhood. We make meaning through the relationships we build, the culture and memories we carry, the experiences we share, and the choices we make.
02 / Four Interconnected Dimensions
Each pillar offers a lens for understanding learning and designing experiences attentive to the whole person.
Learning through curiosity, experience, experimentation, reflection, and the freedom to grow from challenges.
Honoring culture, lived experience, belonging, personal strengths, and the perspectives each learner brings.
Making space for patience, compassion, emotional safety, and participation without unnecessary pressure.
Designing and choosing with purpose, connecting learning to thoughtful action, reflection, and what matters.
03 / Across Generations
The framework is not limited to one age group, setting, or subject. It can inform formal and informal learning while remaining responsive to context.
Literacy, storytelling, social-emotional awareness, curiosity, and hands-on exploration.
Learning experience design, professional development, reflection, and practical application.
Shared stories, cultural memory, relationships, and learning with and from one another.
Adaptation, identity, belonging, purpose, and continued development across life stages.
04 / From Philosophy to Practice
The GIGI Method™ offers a flexible lens, not a rigid teaching script. Activities and assessments should respond to learners, access needs, and intended outcomes.
05 / One Application Through Literature
A planned four-book children's series developed on the foundation of The GIGI Method™. The stories are one expression of the framework, not the framework itself.
Growth · Published
Discovering our unique gifts and the conditions that help us grow. Available in English, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese.
Identity · In Development
A forthcoming story; title and details have not been announced.
Grace · Planned
A future exploration of grace.
Intention · Planned
A future exploration of intention.
06 / Scholarship and Practice
The GIGI Method™ draws on sociocultural, experiential, and relational perspectives on learning. Its applications inform ongoing inquiry; they are not claims of formal empirical validation.
In the University of Miami project How Stories Grow Us, the pillars served as a reflective lens for considering family storytelling, identity, and informal intergenerational learning.
Jeanette's contribution to The AI Frontier explores human-centered education, identity, and learning in the age of artificial intelligence.
Learning Scientist · Educator · Learning Experience Designer · Children's Author
Jeanette is an EdD candidate in Applied Learning Sciences at the University of Miami. Affectionately known as Abuela Gigi, she brings a grandmother's intergenerational perspective to her scholarly and creative practice.
07 / Explore the Work
Explore research-informed teaching, instructional design, qualitative inquiry, and applied learning experiences in the Teaching & Learning Portfolio.