A short webpage dedicated to key areas Natick has identified to improve student learning, their aspirational vision for learning, and their strategic plan to achieve this vision.
This is an observation rubric developed by Personalized Learning Preparatory at Sam Houston (Dallas ISD). The rubric focuses on four components of personalized learning: learner profiles, goal setting, data tracking, and data binders/student showcases. There are several ways the school enacts each of these components, and this document includes an observation rubric with “will see, could see, never see” expectations for each component.
This webpage describes Distinctive Schools’ mission and vision statements.
Transcend Education, Lindsay Unified, and Summit Public Schools partnered to develop research-backed resources to provide clarity and a common language around implementing personalized learning. This set of look fors is a detailed and research-based articulation of six key principles and corresponding student and educator experiences and actions that foster personalized learning.
A learner profile tells an individual’s academic and personal story over time and helps to establish a coaching relationship. It includes strengths, areas for growth, interests, aspirations, goals and how the individual learns best.
Chicago Public Schools’ teacher learner profile allows educators to share who they are as an individual and as a professional. Coaches utilize this tool to better understand educators and to tailor learning opportunities and supports based on preferences and identified growth areas.
Dallas ISD’s Personalized Learning Team presented at iNACOL in 2017 using these slides, sharing how they partner with higher education institutions, schools, philanthropic organizations, and businesses in order to grow and improve their personalized learning implementation.
This is a rubric developed by Distinctive Schools to help educators measure progress along various components of their personalized learning continuum. The four main components in the rubric are: learner profiles, personalized learning paths, competency-based progression, and flexible learning environments. Progress is measured along three levels: emerging, developing, and distinctive.
In order to invest families in the personalized learning model at Rogers Elementary at Dallas Independent School District, the school walks through the why, how, and what of the model during Parent Night. By sharing the rationale for the innovative model, grounded in supporting students and their individual needs, the school ensures that parents can understand why classrooms look different from how they used to look. A version of the slides in Spanish can be found here.
This slide deck provides an overview of what Natick Public Schools hopes to accomplish over the five year span of 2018-2023. The main goal areas of this district’s strategic improvement plan include teaching and learning, nurturing connections, assessment, accountability, and evaluation.
