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Remote Learning, Week 2: Thinking about Writing as Choices

This post was first published on #MasonPLJourney and is reprinted with permission. One thing I tried: My English teacher heroes beyond MHS, Kelly Gallagher and Penny Kittle, recently published a terrific piece called “The curse of helicopter teaching” in ASCD. Read More …

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Self-Discovery through Choice Boards

Self-discovery, one of the attributes of personalized learning, is when students learn more about themselves to help guide their experiences. By reflecting on choices, ideas, and learning, students learn how to manage themselves to optimize decisions regarding content, interactions with Read More …

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Prioritizing Investigation and Choice in Student Learning

While I am definitely a learner in personalized learning, my revelation this week has been that we should “lean away” from unit design and lesson plan design that involves one master planner and “lean into” design that feels less structured, Read More …

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The Day the Students Designed Their Test

As an advocate for personalized learning, my perspective is simple: I’m constantly looking for ways to foster learner agency and put students at the center of the learning. To that end, this is the story of a recent experiment with Read More …

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Honoring “The Why” in Unit Design and Instruction

Over the past few years of teaching English to high school juniors, I have become increasingly aware of the competitive nature of our students’ post-secondary opportunities. With so many students planning to be engineers, architects, accountants and the like, I have Read More …

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Set Students Up for Success with Choice: Interview with Maggie West

Set Students Up for Success with Choice

This post was originally published on Leading Great Learning and is reposted with permission. Read our interview with Mike Anderson: Choice As A Lever for Personalized Learning The way we introduce learning options to students can make or break a Read More …

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Without These Three Conditions, Student Choice Probably Won’t Work

This post was first published on Leading Great Learning and is republished with permission. “If I give my students choice, I’m worried they’re going to make bad choices,” I often hear teachers say. “They’re just going to choose the easiest Read More …

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How Creating Choice Transformed My K-8 Art Studio

How Creating Student Choice Transformed My K-8 Art Studio

How do you create full student choice with a couple hundred of kindergarten through eighth-grade students and one art teacher? A) Pedagogy, B) Planning, and C) Personalized Learning. I am a K-8 art teacher, and I run a choice-based, student-driven Read More …

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