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  • ABOUT
    • The Tarrant Institute
    • Tarrant Institute Staff
    • Our Partner Schools
    • Our Publications & Presentations
    • How to Use This Blog
    • Terms of Use
    • Some final reflections from former TIIE staff
  • OUR BOOK
    • How to use this Educator’s Guide
    • Ch 1: Defining Personalized Learning
      • 1.1 The Three Pillars of Personalized Learning
      • 1.2 The Definition of a PLP
      • 1.3 New Student & Teacher Roles
    • Ch 2: PLPs Aren’t Just For The Teacher
      • 2.1 Knowing Students Well
      • 2.2 Avoid the Pitfalls!
    • Ch 3: Laying The Groundwork for PLPs
      • 3.1 What Are Your Pedagogical Priorities?
      • 3.2 Structures to Support Personalized Learning
    • Ch 4: Starting with the Learner Profile
    • Ch 5: Flexing Your Pathways
      • 5.1 Engaging Pedagogies for All
    • Ch. 6: Scaffolding for Equitable, Deeper Learning
    • Ch 7: PLPs & Proficiency-Based Assessment
    • Ch 8: Student-led PLP conferences
    • Ch 9: Sustaining Innovation
    • Chapter References
  • TOOLKITS
    • Action research
    • Adult Culture
    • Digital citizenship
    • Community & Culture
    • Community Engaged Learning
    • Equity toolkit
    • Essential Skills & Dispositions Toolkit
    • Family & Community Involvement
    • Flexible classrooms
    • Genius Hour
    • Identity
    • Makerspaces
    • Negotiated curriculum
    • Outdoor and Place-Based Learning Toolkit
    • Personalized Learning Plans (PLPs)
    • Proficiency-Based Education
      • Learning Goals
      • Formative Assessment
      • Summative Assessment
    • Project-Based Learning
    • Reflection
    • Remote Learning
    • Scheduling
    • Service learning
    • Student-led conferences
  • VIDEOS
    • Middle Grades Conference (MGC)
    • Outdoor & Place-Based Learning
    • PLP videos
    • Proficiency-Based Learning Videos
    • Project-Based Learning (PBL) Units
    • Student-Led Conference Videos
    • Tech Tips for Teachers
    • The Learning Lab
    • #vted Reads Videos
    • Workshops & Webinars
  • PODCASTS
    • #vted Reads
    • The 21st Century Classroom
      • The 21st Century Classroom Audio
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The Three Pillars of Personalized Learning

the three pillars of personalized learning

 

“Do you know where you are?” An exercise for taking stock of Act 77 implementation.

PLPs

  • Care and Feeding of the PLP
  • PLPs, Parenting, and a Pandemic
  • Using Seesaw with Google Classroom for PLPs
  • Looking at PLPs
  • PLPs in Seesaw
  • 3 easy tech tools for PLP reflections
  • How can students reflect on their PLPs?

Flexible Pathways

  • Prioritizing daily movement 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 coordinator
  • Hitting learning targets in Vermont hunter education
  • Randolph students turn digital audio producers with PBL
  • 4 ways twitter bots can help save the world
  • Parenting a student-run business
  • Turning passion projects into real world change

Proficiency-Based Learning

  • Culturally Responsive Instruction and Assessment
  • How a classroom newsletter gave my students a voice
  • Taking stock of grading & reporting
  • Hunter education in Vermont
  • #vted Reads: The Standards-Based Classroom
  • How to change assessment & grading practices
  • Knitting, algebra, & the promise of proficiencies
  • The powerful practice of documenting learning
  • How to use data to inform progress
  • What can we learn about proficiency from special education?

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