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This post is by Dr. Matt Doyle, Executive Director of iCERP, and Jennifer Peirson, iCERP Action Council Lead. It was first published on Education Week and is reprinted with permission. We are always struck by the elevated levels of hope and Read More …
This post is authored by Allison Zmuda, Marie Alcock and Michael Fisher and was first published on the Solution Tree Blog. Based on The Quest For Learning: How To Maximize Student Engagement In many classrooms, assessment is still an event. It Read More …
One question that I often receive about inquiry when sharing my passion for personalized learning is around assessment. When adopting an inquiry model colleagues want to know more about assessing Free Inquiry. Free Inquiry is when learners select an inquiry Read More …
In my experience, meaningful changes in educational practice happen when teachers are committed to the initiative. It doesn’t have to be initiated by them, but they need to believe in the ultimate goals of implementation. This does not mean that Read More …
I recently came across the article, Personalized Learning and Common Core: Mortal Enemies? on usnews.com. The article defines personalized learning as “a new tech-fueled trend in education” and goes on to cite why adopting the practice may revert our schools Read More …
Guest Collaboration: Michael Mohammad with Allison Zmuda Allison: Mike and I have never met in person, but we exchange information and ideas with one another to grow our own expertise in personalized learning. Mike wrote a blog post awhile back Read More …
Guest Blog Post by Kristin Mancini. Kristin is the World Language Curricular Lead/Program Coordinator for Madison Public Schools in Madison, CT. She has taught High School Spanish for over ten years. Kristin is currently working on re-imagining K-12 curriculum in Madison Read More …
Giddy is not a word that I casually throw around, but that’s exactly how I felt heading to brainstorm personalized learning ideas at a site visit with Vista High School and Aveson Charter School. Making my way from Lancaster to Read More …
In this blog, we will explore ideas and processes for designing authentic performance tasks to be used as rich learning activities and/or for purposes of assessment. In the spirit of “backward design,” let’s begin at the end by considering the Read More …
This post was originally published on Pam Austen‘s website, Musings in Real Time, and re-published on Learning Personalized with permission. For the last few years we have been working towards a more student-centered learning model at our elementary school. We Read More …