Spectrum The Spectrum Institute for Teaching and Learning, a non-profit organization, was created to provide a center for people from around the world committed to improving education and schooling to come and work together. The central organiing theme undergirding the Institute, the reason for the Institute's existence, is to improve education through the Spectrum of Teaching Styles. The Spectrum Institute serves as a clearinghouse for information and research about alternative teaching and learning styles. These ideas were initially discovered in the early 1960s and have continuously been researched, developed, and implemented in the reality of classrooms. The Spectrum has influenced teacher educational programs and institutions around the world. The Institute is dedicated to the improvement of classroom learning through the understanding and implementation of quality alternative teaching-learning behaviors. Besides offering teachers a repertoire of alternative teaching and learning options from Command to Discovery, the Spectrum theory offers: a common language for dialogue that can lead to theoretically solid implementation practices; it provides a mechanism-a unifying structure-for change in education; and it provides a framework for valid and cumulative progress. The mission of the Spectrum Institute for Teaching and Learning, a non-profit charitable organization, is to provide a center for people from around the world committed to improving education and schooling to come and work together. The central organizing theme undergirding the Institute, the reason for the Institute's existence, is to improve education through the Spectrum of Teaching Styles. The Spectrum Institute serves as a clearinghouse for information and research about alternative teaching and learning styles. The Institute is dedicated to the improvement of classroom learning through the understanding and implementation of quality alternative teaching-learning behaviors. Besides offering teachers a repertoire of alternative teaching and learning options from Command to Discovery, the Spectrum theory offers: a common language for dialogue that can lead to theoretically solid implementation practices; it provides a mechanism-a unifying structure-for change in education; and it provides a framework for valid and cumulative progress. The Spectrum Institute for Teaching and Learning, a non-profit organization, was created to provide a center for people from around the world committed to improving education and schooling to come and work together. The central organiing theme undergirding the Institute, the reason for the Institute's existence, is to improve education through the Spectrum of Teaching Styles. The Spectrum Institute serves as a clearinghouse for information and research about alternative teaching and learning styles. These ideas were initially discovered in the early 1960s and have continuously been researched, developed, and implemented in the reality of classrooms. The Spectrum has influenced teacher educational programs and institutions around the world. The Institute is dedicated to the improvement of classroom learning through the understanding and implementation of quality alternative teaching-learning behaviors. Besides offering teachers a repertoire of alternative teaching and learning options from Command to Discovery, the Spectrum theory offers: a common language for dialogue that can lead to theoretically solid Spectrum implementation practices; it provides a mechanism-a unifying structure-for change in education; and it provides a framework for valid and cumulative progress. The mission of the Spectrum Institute for Teaching and Learning, a non-profit charitable organization, is to provide a center for people from around the world committed to improving education and schooling to come and work together. The central organizing theme undergirding the Institute, the reason for the Institute's existence, is to improve education through the Spectrum of Teaching Styles. The Spectrum Institute serves as a clearinghouse for information and research about alternative teaching and learning styles. The Institute is dedicated to the improvement of classroom learning through the understanding and implementation of quality alternative teaching-learning behaviors. Besides offering teachers a repertoire of alternative teaching and learning options from Command to Discovery, the Spectrum theory offers: a common language for dialogue that can lead to theoretically solid implementation practices; it provides a mechanism-a unifying structure-for change in education; and it provides a framework for valid and cumulative progress.