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Advice: Vision First, Facilities Second
Many educators are redesigning their physical spaces alongside their instructional approaches. New physical space designs should be driven, first and foremost, by visions for blended and personalized learning.
Strategies
Guide: Bellwether Education: Policy Playbook for Personalized Learning
Bellwether Education Partners, a nonprofit consulting group, offers a key policy "playbook" that can be instrumental to aligning systems in a strategic manner on the state and local level.
Examples From The Field
Valor Collegiate Academies
Valor Collegiate Academies consist of two public charter schools in Nashville, TN, serving students in grades 5-8. Their instructional model includes a blended and personalized math class, as well as a large emphasis on student social and emotional...
Examples From The Field
Locust Grove Middle School
Locust Grove Middle School is a 6th-8th grade personalized learning school in Henry County School District in Georgia.
Strategies
Designing Henry County’s Five Pillars for Personalized Learning
Henry County Schools created five core tenets of personalized learning to help schools identify primary areas of change in their instructional practices.
Examples From The Field
Cisco Junior High School
Cisco Junior High School is a small district school in Cisco, TX, about two hours outside of Dallas, serving students in grades 6-8. Cisco ISD has scaled blended learning to 3rd-8th grade math and science, and is working toward scaling across the...
Strategies
Prompting Deeper Thinking through Open Questions
Cisco’s 7th grade math teacher asks questions that require students to use prior knowledge, mathematical processes, and mathematical language in their answer.
Examples From The Field
Bronx Arena High School
Bronx Arena is an alternative high school that serves overage and under-credited students in grades 9-12 in the Bronx borough of New York City. Each student has a custom education plan meant to help them optimally learn what they need to graduate....
Teaching Practices
How do I deepen differentiation and personalization within a station rotation model?
Currently implementing stations and thinking “now what?” This guide will give you resources around how adding more flexibility of movement, timing, strategic data use, and varied groupings will allow for greater differentiation, personalization, and...
Spotlights & Case Studies
Measurement in Action: Using existing data and staff to measure personalized learning
We engaged in two researcher-practitioner partnerships (RPPs) with Distinctive Schools, and Leadership Public Schools over one school year to help them determine how best to scale their personalized learning initiatives. Here are the lessons we...
Teaching Practices
How do I strategically instruct students with learning disabilities in a personalized learning classroom?
How do you ensure that your instruction is supporting your students with learning disabilities effectively? Have you looked at ways to crosswalk students' IEPs with your current Learner Plans, engaged educators to collaborate around strategic...
