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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 …
The case for the increased use of performance tasks rests on two foundational ideas: Authentic tasks are needed to both develop and assess many of the most significant outcomes identified in the current sets of academic Standards as well as Read More …
At the Tri-Association Conference this week, I facilitated a five-hour workshop on standards-based grading and reporting. Just like personalized learning, most agree that traditional grades and marks need to become more transparent, but how to do it and how to Read More …
A performance task is any learning activity or assessment that asks students to perform to demonstrate their knowledge, understanding and proficiency. Performance tasks yield a tangible product and/or performance that serve as evidence of learning. Unlike a selected-response item (e.g., Read More …
Once in a while we hit one out of the park. The past two weeks was one of those times when Sustainable Cities, Design Thinking, Creativity, and Innovation became the center of our world in our AP Environmental Science “Sustainable Read More …
Just came from working with staff from Prosper ISD, Texas and was so proud of the thoughtful work to articulate the “big ideas” of their curriculum. Check out the Essential Questions that were developed by the K-12 Arts and Career Read More …