Giving a voice to teacher-leaders, administrators, and students doing amazing things
Personalized Learning is all about making it personal. The commitment Yvette Jackson describes necessitates a classroom and school culture where every student has voice (one of the four attributes) and that voice shapes all aspects of school including curriculum, assessment, Read More …
Allison Zmuda and Bena Kallick interviewed Bob Lenz, Executive Director of the Buck Institute for Education (BIE) and Brandon Wiley, Chief Program Officer of BIE. We were very much interested in the synergy that we see between project based learning Read More …
Silvia Tolisano is a colleague and friend who continues to inspire me and so many others on the meaningful way to leverage technology in service to inquiry, idea generation, and creation. Her blog is filled with fabulous ways and examples Read More …
In my experience, meaningful changes in educational practice happen when teachers are committed to the initiative. It doesn’t have to be initiated by them, but they need to believe in the ultimate goals of implementation. This does not mean that Read More …
Once in a blue moon, you see a vision of personalized learning that takes your breath away. This is Blueprint — a school within a school in Douglas County, Colorado. Blueprint is open to 5th and 6th grade students in Sage Read More …
So many teachers believe that Habits of Mind is so important but they struggle with how to meaningfully make that part of their instructional practice. Based on my collaboration with elementary school teachers at the Quinnipiac Real World Magnet Math Read More …
I recently came across the article, Personalized Learning and Common Core: Mortal Enemies? on usnews.com. The article defines personalized learning as “a new tech-fueled trend in education” and goes on to cite why adopting the practice may revert our schools Read More …
Last spring, we re-imagined the Civics curriculum for all of our Madison High School students to provide an opportunity to take action on something that is meaningful to students. Over the course of twelve weeks, each student would draft a Read More …
I have been at Radnor High School in Wayne, PA (my alma mater) since the 1999-2000 school year, and each time a major election has come up, I have taken my classes down to the studio to film candidate debates. 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 …