Mt. Vernon Elementary School’s mastery-based grading policy, which outlines its grading weights, how to translate mastery into letter grades, gradebook expectations, and an example report card.
Social emotional lesson pacing guide for prekindergarten through eighth grade, which includes lesson objectives and targeted calming strategies.
This website shows the vision of the By Design program and its key outcomes and components.
Savannah Bell, Personalized Learning Leader at Chicago Public Schools, describes how teachers and leaders at Tanner Elementary School adapted their social-emotional learning scope and sequence to focus on self-management skills.
This unit plan includes what students are learning in each class throughout the course of the project. It also includes standards covered for each content area and examples of evidence of learning developed by students.
This is a sample project guide for a seven-week interdisciplinary project in ELA, science, social studies, and health. The guide outlines the big question and content area driving questions and explains for students and parents how progress towards learning objectives (concepts and standards) will be assessed as well as the type of evidence that is expected to be produced.
A video from Tanner Elementary’s virtual Black History month assembly, which includes a read aloud, celebrations of Black social justice activists and celebrities, and identity stories from students.
Four examples of different virtual learning workshop session slide decks and accompanying plans prepared by the Department of Personalized Learning at Chicago Public Schools. Session topics include:
Learner Agency: Ownership and Self-Advocacy
SEL: Self-Management
Tailored Learning: Data Informed Instruction and Planning
Authentic Learning: Real-Life Context
A nine-month scope and sequence for personalized learning professional development for teachers, which includes differentiated pathways dependent upon the domain teachers choose to focus their learning on.
A comprehensive overview of the domains of Chicago Public Schools’ Personalized Learning Framework. In this slide deck are the different parts of the framework, which include personalized learning signature practices, learner agency, tailored learning, social and emotional learning, and authentic learning with each accompanied by indicators of success and resources.
