This one-slide overview of a math unit from Greeley-Evans School District highlights how various aspects of personalized learning, including differentiation and formative checkpoints, integrate with core instructional components (e.g., warm-ups, concept development, application of knowledge).
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.
Even before moving to moving to blended and personalized learning, CICS West Belden was a high-performing elementary school in Chicago. However, in staffwide conversations, the team realized they needed to keep pushing to help students develop all of the skills they needed to succeed, beyond just test scores.
To elucidate their “why,” staff rallied around three major reasons for change:
1. Despite strong scores, educators were feeling like student growth was stagnating. They needed to find a way to meet each student’s needs more effectively, individually.
2. Leaders wanted to increase student engagement and ownership around learning, which meant they needed greater flexibility and opportunities for students to make choices and have input.
3. Teachers were excited and ready to grow their skills and approaches.
West Belden used these as jumping off points for designing their new approach for change (the “how” [process], as well as the “what” [outputs]) and to engage their community along the way.
This slide deck provides an overview of this journey, and covers topics such as mindset, culture, and the design thinking process.
This issue brief highlights state policy opportunities to create a shared vision to modernize professional learning for educators in a K-12, competency-based education system. Educators will be prepared for a future-focused profession that better meets the 21st-century demands of student learning and workforce needs. In it, we make five recommendations to leverage the unique role of state policymaking:
The recommendations describe actions for state policymakers to enable and enact the vision described in the CompetencyWorks report, Moving Toward Mastery: Growing, Developing, and Sustaining Educators for Competency-Based Education.
In this video installment of IgnitED Research, a series that aims to build stronger connections between learning science and instructional practice, we look at classroom management and how to empower students to co-create and drive management processes.
This sample standards map for Food Chains (TX Science Standard 3.9B) is used as a pretest in Ms. Scroggins’ 3rd grade blended science class. The data are used to set SMART goals which drive students’ learning.
In this video installment of IgnitED Research, a series that aims to build stronger connections between learning science and instructional practice, we look at retrieval and how it affects the process of learning.
This Challenge Map from Digital Promise allows users to explore big challenges in education – from kindergarten readiness to school redesign – and how they play out in different contexts. The tool also connects users with ideas and resources from innovative school districts and organizations.
Explore this free comprehensive personalized learning guide for educators, administrators, and parents from Education Elements. These resources will help you discover:
For those interested using Creative Commons licenses, Creative Commons offers an informative Share Your Work website that lets users explore how to select and mark their work.
