Giving a voice to teacher-leaders, administrators, and students doing amazing things
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 …
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 …
Nonverbal communication can completely change how our words are perceived, but the importance of verbal communication shouldn’t be ignored. We need to use proper words and phrases when communicating to our students and their parents while also teaching proper language Read More …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …