What Personalized Learning Is
- Blog with Art Costa and Bena Kallick: Personalized Learning for All
- Four Attributes of Personalized Learning: Coaching with Students
- Authored by Allison Zmuda and Jill Thompson (April 2018): How to Leverage Personalized Learning
Why It Matters
- VUCA: Volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous. Check out this Forbes article to see how this reality drives innovation.
- From World Economics Forum on Outlook for Growing and Declining Skills
- Gallup Poll on Student Engagement
How to Grow It In Your Classrooms
- Article from Ed Leadership:Orchestrating the Move
- Tool 1: Design Considerations for Seven Elements of PL
- Tool 2: Planning and Design with Seven Elements of PL
Elementary Illustrations
- Blog: series from Kristen Wright and Erin Cordova (Grade 1 teachers)
- Website: Penny Harvest to teach philanthropy, collaboration, problem solving, and related subject-area content
- Website: Click here to have students examine toys from around the world based on the country
- Website: Reinventing 3rd Grade; Douglas County, Colorado
- Website: Playbook designed by teachers at Charlotte-Mecklenberg Schools
- Global Read Aloud: 2018 Challenge
- Website: Blueprint Program (Grades 5 and 6)
- Math Rubric Example from Newport News, VA: 2-5 Problem Solving Rubric
- Transformation of K-8 Art Classroom with Personalized Learning
Secondary Illustrations
- Example #1: AP Physics Teacher Mike Mohammad
- Example #2: Social Studies Teacher Laura Stott
- Example #3: Mark Wise and Global Challenge for 8th Grade
- Example #4: Thought Process of Task Design for 1st Year Physics Teacher
- Example #5: Innovation Lab (High School) Presentations of Learning
- Example #6: AP/IB Bio Teacher Talks About How He Frames Designs with His Students
- Example #7: 7th Grade Humanities Unit Transformation
- Example #8: Scoring tool to grow Inquiry and students role in Evaluation of their own learning in an English Classroom
- Example #9: Math Teacher Describes Feedback to Students in a PreCalculus Classroom
- Example #10: Community Partnership at Kellam High School
- Example #11: Instructional Strategies: Personalizing in Mathematics
- Example #12: Greenwich HS Innovation Lab (video below)
STEM teachers Brian Walach (math) and Dr. Sarah Goldin (science) highlight Greenwich High School’s Innovation Lab, currently wrapping up its inaugural year. The personalized learning program combines classroom lessons with hands-on projects to elevate student learning in English, math, science, and social studies.
- Example #13: Blog post: Click here to imagine tasks using Google:
- Example #14: Learner Self-Monitoring Tool- Sample Info-Writing
- Example #15: Learner Self-Monitoring Tool- Sample Algebra
- Example #16: H.S. Anatomy teacher uses case studies to grow learning
- Example #17: Click here to see how students worked to better understand homelessness in their local community
- Example #18: StoryCorps: Click here for instructions on how your students can participate; click here for great questions from StoryCorps to do a local version in your community
- Example #19: Click here to see opportunities to get students involved in data collection with scientists from around the world.
- Example #20: Advice from English teacher on Journey with Personalized Learning
- Example #21: A school’s development of personalized learning projects (grades 5- 8)
- Example #22: Instructional coach develops student tutorials to demonstrate learning called iCreate