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Allowing Experiences and Why It’s So Valuable

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This post was originally published on Christine’s school website, individualizededu.com, and re-published on Learning Personalized with permission. Last night was the first night my husband and I spent in our new home. We closed on the house two weeks ago Read More …

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Friday’s Epic Challenge Program Offers a Glimpse into NASA’s Innovative Learning

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By Chrissie Wywrot Allison Zmuda was on a plane headed for Atlanta working on her ASCD blog for Learning Personalized. The gentleman next to her, Charles Camarda, couldn’t help but notice the content of the blog: personalized learning. He quickly Read More …

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Successfully Working Through the Disruption of Change

Change.  Few words conjure such charged feelings from all stakeholders as “change.” There’s the excitement of implementing something new with the potential to positively impact student learning.  Expectations are high, goals are set, and strategies of implementation are discussed.  Others feel Read More …

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A Year of Failure (and What I Plan to Do About It)

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The 70th Annual ASCD Conference held in Houston truly inspired me (as it does each year I am able to attend). Ideas about personalizing learning and incorporating student voice, developing student inquiry, and creating a risk-taking environment continue to inform Read More …

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Tony Wagner Discusses Play, Passion, and Purpose

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A powerful TED Talk where Tony Wagner contends that the culture of schooling is at odds with the culture of innovating. A couple of key highlights. Our schools do not need reforming. They are obsolete and need reinventing. America has Read More …

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What To Do When You Don’t Know What To Do

By Leonard A. Schlesinger, Charles F. Kiefer, and Paul B. Brown Are you frustrated? We know we are. Most of us prepared hard for the future we expected, and yet things aren’t working out as we had planned. That’s true Read More …

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Power of the Reset Button

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In December of this past year, I had the great opportunity to spend some time with Don Marinelli. Until his retirement in 2012, Don was Executive Producer and co-founder (along with the late Dr. Randy Pausch) of Carnegie Mellon University’s Read More …

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Key Advice for Every Educator about How to Encourage Innovation

When I first read about what Mark Lang was doing to inspire innovation in students, I emailed him immediately to talk about key lessons that he has learned from his work with educators and students. (Full interview is posted in Read More …

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Jay McTighe: Power of Long-Term Transfer Goals

Jay McTighe

Jay McTighe brings a wealth of experience developed during a rich and varied career in education. An accomplished author, Jay has co-authored 12 books, including the best-selling Understanding by Design® series with Grant Wiggins. He is a showcased speaker at Read More …

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Helping Your Child Take (the right kind of) Action: Thoughts from a Parent Who Has Been There

By Melissa McQuarrie Parenting is a challenge. You might have the most easy-going child in the world—or the most headstrong—but helping them feel confident in their abilities, dreams, and decision-making skills is never easy. On one hand, you might think Read More …

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