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How NOT To Do Personalized Learning

By Craig Gastauer and Laura Stott On the second day of the #Empower18 ASCD Pre-Conference session, “Students at the Center: Discovering Who They are by Learning the Habits of Mind” with Art Costa, Bena Kallick, and Allison Zmuda, five incredible Read More …

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Students as Co-Creators to Improve Their Achievement

The element that stood out to me most powerfully from my review of the first chapter of Students at the Center was the concept of student as co-creators in personalized learning. To have a student walk beside you and shape Read More …

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Student Choice in Personalized Learning

Student choice is a key tenet of personalized learning, and I think it is especially powerful when the choice is organic and meaningful. To take Allison’s wording, not choice that results in “dumpster projects,” but choice that results in authentic, Read More …

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Modeling High Quality Work as an Instructional Tool

My students, in addition to taking their AP US History exam on Friday, May 5, are also right in the midst of conducting their interviews. That means that I am going to be sitting down with my willing guinea pig, Read More …

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Integrating Personalized Learning with AP Standards and Skills

Allison and I met back in the winter to determine how to start my oral history project, and I expressed to her that I was unsure how to begin instructing my students in the process. Students would need to know Read More …

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Making a Change: Teaching Students About Oral History

I was VERY hesitant to do this. To make a big change in an AP course, with the pressure of the AP exam, our good track record in student scores, and watching parents . But one teacher’s choice could have Read More …

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Reimagining a Civics Curriculum for Meaningful Action

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Last spring, we re-imagined the Civics curriculum for all of our Madison High School students to provide an opportunity to take action on something that is meaningful to students. Over the course of twelve weeks, each student would draft a Read More …

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Fear and Excitement: Announcing a Civic Action Assignment

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I introduced the final product for our civic action plan today. This is their exam in which they demonstrate the work they’ve done during the trimester toward the civic action to impact the problem they believe is important. I shared Read More …

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Kicking Off An Innovative Personalized Learning Experiment

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From Allison: The following is a summer reading assignment given out to students last week to kick off the Advanced Placement US History course. History Teacher Laura Stott from Madison Public Schools, CT is part of an innovation project to Read More …

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