…Review the Essential Question and/or Learning Targets: Start with some grounding in the essential question and/or the learning targets. Read and discuss the question quickly, rooting everyone in the grander…
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…to join her along the journey. Deirdre participated in Learning Lab VT last year to explore how best to change her practice in a proficiency-based and personalized learning environment. How…
Read more…Valley Union High School, 2018 Personalized Learning Plan Critical Elements, Vermont Agency of Education, 2017 Examples & Tools Geography of Self, Lori Lisai and Joseph Murphy, Lamoille Union Middle School…
Read moreFoundations & Connections The Learning Edge: Supporting Student Success in a Competency-Based Learning Environment, Laura Shubilla and Chris Sturgis, iNACOL, 2012 What is SEL? The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and…
Read more…kids and they’ll show you what they did, how they used Blogger and Google Sites to house some of their personalized learning plans. And then we have six digital stories…
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…menu of pre-selected pathways from which a student must choose, but also includes school-based course offerings, virtual or blended learning opportunities, community or work-based learning opportunities, and post-secondary learning options…
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…our own ways of knowing, being, and learning in order to meet the needs of our students and build on their cultural ways of knowing, being, and learning. Hold up……
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A new recipe for Personalized Learning Plans Rather than trying to get students to care about existing PLPs, some schools are revamping their PLP process to start with what students…
Read more…settings that are becoming increasingly personalized? How is personalized learning similar to, yet distinct from, differentiated instruction? How do proficiencies, personal learning plans, and flexible pathways contribute to getting…
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…self-directed learning in her students. She strived to help students set goals that were meaningful and focused on learning, rather than performing to an external (and perhaps somewhat arbitrary) standard….
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When asked “what is your working definition of personalized learning?” Charlie Herzog, an educator at Flood Brook replied: “ Relevancy is the essence of personalized learning. It’s about giving students…
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When asked “what is your working definition of personalized learning?” Charlie Herzog, an educator at Flood Brook replied: “ Relevancy is the essence of personalized learning. It’s about giving students…
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…does this connect to personalized learning? Zmuda and Kallick define four attributes of personalized learning: voice, co-creation, social construction, and self-discovery. Stowe’s shift to student interest projects and the emphasis…
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…Kyle Chadburn. These teachers have worked hard to move toward personalized learning practices such as project based learning and increasing student voice and choice. Personalized learning does not mean individualized…
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…Education to focus on growth and cross-curricular skills like the Essential Skills and Dispositions; Personalized Learning Plans and Student Led Conferences that enhance student ownership; and engaging pedagogies like Project…
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…How can you show evidence of all the learning you’re doing in this area? Life: As we’re in these learning spaces I often hear might be like: what do I…
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Outcomes, process and automaticity I worked with a group of teachers this summer to re-think goal-setting with their students. We know it’s a key component to developing Personalized Learning Plans…
Read more…Henry County School Henry County School hosts this video on their Personalized Learning section of their website. It has a tremendous list of resources to scaffold this type of learning….
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…the quest for deeper learning and transformation. Your intuition and experience guide your path. But what happens when you see the way to bring more meaningful and relevant learning experiences…
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…much change afoot via promising personalized learning strategies like Personal Learning Plans, Flexible Pathways, and proficiency-based learning. We need to make sure that anti-oppressive education is the driving force of…
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…educators together to support each other in pursuing personalized learning. Chrissy’s inquiry question? How does personalization and project based learning help students connect and engage in their local community? Chrissy…
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…American education and society. This pandemic has long infected our government, and our social infrastructure. It infects us. As an organization, we focus on personalized learning that honors student identities,…
Read more…person staring back. That’s not the kind of reflection we are talking about here. Reflection in a 21st Century learning sense is a key component of personalized learning. Reflection allows…
Read more…and experiential learning in Newark Place-Based, De-Colonized Ecology in Middle School North Country Flexible Pathways Lessons learned from a community conversation on race Measuring the value of a personalized learning…
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…remote learning mid-stride, consider taking a step back. What if we imagine instead that we are beginning a new, online school year? How would you be preparing for remote learning…
Read more…Learning presentation Again: differences between differentiation and individualization? Bayse in the ISTE article Personalized vs. differentiated vs. individualized learning referenced in the beginning of this post makes clear how personalization…
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…community in student learning — and meshed them together in a program that cultivated successful personalized learning in Vermont. These approaches were indistinguishable in action, because we saw and lived…
Read more…how transformational learning practices happen! MGI gives school teams and teachers time to plan for new personalized learning practices and projects for the upcoming school year, with guidance and inspiration….
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…really curious about that. When we in Vermont started to transition towards a personalized learning environment that included proficiency-based learning, the Vermont Agency of Education identified what many of us…
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…for inclusiveness and belonging; Proficiency-Based Education to focus on growth and cross-curricular skills like the Essential Skills and Dispositions ; Personalized Learning Plans and Student Led Conferences that enhance student…
Read morePersonalized, proficiency-based PBL or bust During a faculty meeting in late December of 2016, educators and staff talked about the need to provide personalized learning options for students at their…
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…them in learning in real-world ways. And students can demonstrate proficiencies in learning, instead of the traditional grading scale. How does this relate to climate change? Deanna: The personalized learning…
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…personalized learning: How might personalization through self-reflection, self-assessment, and flexible grouping and scheduling across grades 3 and 4 at Proctor Elementary School positively impact student engagement and achievement? Bright Spot:…
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…camp. As Morgan explains it, I think experiential learning opens so many doors. I think project based learning, and personalized learning really fall under experiential learning. Say you are a…
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It’s about providing choice in reflection tools Personalized Learning Plans (PLPs) across the state have taken many different forms and serve a few different purposes. One common thread among educators…
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…a way that is personalized. The way we’re going to do that is we’re going to do a personalized learning plan for each of you, and we’re going to figure…
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…quickly added distance learning pathway offerings from Vermont Virtual Learning Cooperative and Edmentum. Fifty eight students are currently engaged in the distant learning pathway. North Country predicts that COVID will…
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…read more about flexible physical learning environments? A Place for Learning: the Physical Environment of Classrooms Developing a dynamic learning environment Classroom Cribs Challenge asks teachers to rethink their learning…
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…could take pictures, write reflections, and make a mini-documentary telling the stories of their projects. This is personalized learning at its best, right? These are Passion Projects! And this would…
Read moreJust-in-time learning in its best form is “Just for me” learning. When you learn something because you yearn to understand it, precisely when you need to apply it, you will…
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…to strengthen relationships and provide personalized support to students’ academic and social emotional learning. As students seek to understand the world and their place in it, learning about social identity…
Read more…to Graduation. Passed in 2012, this legislation requires that every student in grades seven through twelve have a personal learning plan, or PLP, outlining what they will be learning, by…
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…gain greater understanding of their own learning preferences and take more responsibility for their learning. ( NCCA, 2015 (.pdf)). Sound pretty dang aligned with the goals of personalized learning to…
Read more…of thinking about these conferences as performance assessments (and learning experiences) …that are for students. 1. Clearly communicate learning expectations to students Since learning targets and scales are good starting…
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…are squarely in the experiential learning umbrella. Middle grades students at NSS reflect weekly in their personalized portfolios to make connections to their learning and lives. Shared by Tim Mulligan,…
Read more…both these events, one of the hottest topics was personalized learning. As Vermont moves to implement Act 77, Flexible pathways to secondary education completion (pdf) there ‘s a lot of…
Read moreWhat proficiency-based learning looks like Winooski Middle and High School, in bustling Winooski, VT, has been quietly making the journey to proficiency-based learning and proficiency-based graduation requirements for the past…
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Part of shifting to personalized learning is centering students in the traditional parent-teacher conference. They need to lead the conversation with families and caregivers. And this shift can be…
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…class, or fixing broken snowmobiles. All of these life experiences are important to students — and are valid learning experiences in and of themselves! We know that learning and value…
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…learning? There are possibilities. And PLPs. One way we could do this is with PLPs- personalized learning plans. PLPs. Their blend of learning tool-meets-portfolio might be just the thing to…
Read more…Mike Coyle, use the Schoology learning management system (LMS) for differentiated learning with her students. With Schoology, McKnight is able to describe how she’s giving her students choices of assignments…
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…towards a democratic classroom, a place where students can advocate for themselves and their learning interests, goals and styles. It’s an important piece of the personalized learning plan (PLP) picture….
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…Vermont is working with some policy mandates around personalized learning and I think that the Twitter chat has been a great place for people to unpack what’s going on in…
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…But in a world where personalized instruction and socio-emotional learning are gaining traction, the idea that students should be memorizing math concepts by singing in unison — a tactic made…
Read moreRealizing the promise of micro-credentialing As teachers and students grapple with how to implement proficiency-based assessment, flexible pathways and personalized learning, what can we learn from digital badge eco-systems? What’s…
Read more…Innovative Edtech Classrooms(71) Negotiated Curriculum (2) News (91) What We’re Reading (28) Personalized Learning (71) Community-based learning(2) Flexible Classroom Spaces (5) Goal-setting (3) PLPs (26) Self-directed learning (7) Student-Led Conferences…
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Read more…and postsecondary readiness. Flexible pathways allow students to apply their knowledge and skills to tasks of personal interest as part of the personalized learning planning process. This does not refer…
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…you’re going to want to keep track of what you’re learning along the way. You could use a learning journal, or a scrapbook. You could create a podcast, or start…
Read more…centered learning activities can help students reflect on and thus strengthen their learning. Furthermore, documenting maker-centered learning can create evidence of growth and proficiency that students can add to their…
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…biology — by working with community partners during the school day. Come hear how Essex High School is jump-starting personalized STEM learning with students working toward digital portfolios, project-based learning…
Read more…Part II: Teaching and Learning This section includes questions related to educator development, curriculum integration, social and emotional learning, and technology. Example Questions: In what ways is personalized learning being…
Read more…Session 2 we saw that WWSU was already moving in these directions, as we explored district initiatives and student profiles related to personalized learning, proficiency-based education, flexible pathways, and student…
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