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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 …
Let me just preface this by saying I am not a science guy. I’m not inherently interested by the structure of cells or how to balance chemical equations. This year though, chemistry is easily one of my favorite classes and Read More …
One of my goals for 2017 is to help educators see that Personalized Learning (PL) is not “another thing” and not something that is hard to do in your classroom. All you have to do is start small and be Read More …
I often hear, “I love the philosophy of Personalized Learning (PL), but where do I start?” I hate to break it to everyone but there is no how-to guide because every teacher is at a different point in their craft. Read More …
Science teacher David Russo from Madison Public Schools, Conn. is part of an innovation project to experiment with personalized learning throughout the year with Allison Zmuda. Over the past couple of years I have been diving deeper and deeper into Read More …
I was asked to work with a middle school leadership team to re-imagine what is possible in their two schools. After arriving, we begin to talk and tread the same predictable ground for a long while. Ideas such as interdisciplinary Read More …
This article was originally posted on relevant-ed.org and was reposted with permission My daughter is going to end global warming. She swears it. For now, I allow her comments to resonate — at least in the privacy of our home — Read More …
By: Michael Mohammed If you haven’t read about our sharing of the personal learning project, you can read it here. This post will focus on reflections on the project and process. After getting some informal feedback from students on the Read More …
The Greenwich High School Innovation Lab is where hands-on learning takes place. Students apply what they are learning within the classroom to a project of their choosing, digging deeper into the principles covered in class. But even though students are Read More …
Each child in America is beautifully unique … so why is our education system designed to evaluate and teach them all the same? That is the question Indi-Ed Founder and Lead Teacher Christine Laurenzi addressed in her TEDx talk last Read More …
