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Phil Muscott is head of school in Cambodia. He has been working with Understanding by Design and Habits of Mind for a number of years. He became so intrigued with the work that he designed a research study to see Read More …
By Arthur Costa, Bena Kallick, and Allison Zmuda The true goal of personalized learning is for every learner to become increasingly comfortable with self-direction as they engage in interesting, relevant, rigorous, and important work regardless of age, past successes, and Read More …
This post first appeared on ASCD Inservice. The language of the culture very much reflects the feelings, behaviors, and actions that the culture values. We often live by the metaphors that we use. So, for example, when we use negative metaphor such Read More …
This post first appeared on trustED and is reprinted with permission. Think about the instructions that you are given by the steward before an airplane takes off: “In the unlikely event of a lack of oxygen…be sure you put your Read More …
Currently, I work at a large, public high school where we are trying to reimagine the student learning experience. Like many schools, we have dedicated teachers building strong teacher directed experiences to help our students develop content knowledge and skills. Read More …
Setting the Stage: I had an opportunity to meet Evan Wilke at this year’s annual Tri-Association Conference in San Jose, Costa Rica. Heidi Hayes Jacobs and I were leading a two-day workshop around the Contemporary Quest Model based on the Read More …
by Art Costa, Bena Kallick, and Allison Zmuda There are predictable policies and practices in the opening month of school that center around setting goals as a classroom teacher, grade level, department, or school. Well-intentioned to be sure, but perhaps Read More …
And so we begin… August 11, 2017, the first day that the ninth graders came to experience Vista High School 2.0, we witnessed the beginning of our evolution from a large traditional high school experience to an experience in which Read More …
In Students at the Center, Bena Kallick and Allison Zmuda identify seven key elements to consider when designing student centered learning: Goals Inquiry/Idea generation Task and audience Evaluation Cumulative demonstration of learning Instructional plan Feedback In this post, I’d like Read More …
As education consultants working with countless school administrators and educators, we field many questions. Some are asked so frequently, in fact, that we dedicated an entire blog post to answering them for the masses. Question #1: What is personalized learning, Read More …