Personalized & Blended Classroom Quiz
One of three individual tests of blended teaching competence developed by Emily Pulham, Ph.D., through a TLA Measurement Fellowship.
August 30, 2019
Craft Category: Artifacts
Natick Public Schools’ Experiential and Deeper Learning Drivers
This webpage provides insights into what Natick Public Schools believes is highly important to their teaching and learning process and explores seven instructional core values for deeper learning and five drivers of experiential learning.
August 8, 2019
Lindsay Unified School District’s Strategic Design
This slide deck provides an overview of the core components of Lindsay’s strategic design and highlights Lindsay’s mission, beliefs, guiding principles, vision, and lifelong learning standards. Instead of a single vision, Lindsay considers several visions for various components of the district’s work, including learning, instruction, assessment, technology, personnel, curriculum, leadership, and stakeholders.
August 8, 2019
Chicago Public Schools’ “The Best of ‘WHY’’
Chicago Public Schools put together a slide deck with a variety of resources that help address the question: “why personalized learning?” Many schools and districts have different answers to this question, and this slide deck provides a look into a few of those options. It also includes additional resources (videos, charts, graphs, exercises, etc.) related to many of the potential answers.
August 8, 2019
Oakland Unified School District Blended Learning Profiles – ELA Example
Oakland Unified School District created this set of school profiles focused on blended learning in English Language Arts to highlight the technology tools used, tips, and achievement gains at each site. This resource allows schools to compare usage of tools and make informed decisions around software selection and implementation.
August 8, 2019
Chicago Public Schools’ Sullivan School Blueprint
As schools make the shift to personalized learning, Chicago Public Schools works with school leaders to design a school blueprint – a comprehensive document laying out the vision, mission, background, strategy, and implementation plan for achieving the model. In this blueprint for Roger C. Sullivan High School, refer to the following pages based on the corresponding problem of practice:
- Onboarding 1: The “Why” – pages 4-10
- Onboarding 2: The School – pages 12-42
- Onboarding 3: The Community
- Community Story – pages 1-6
- Community Engagement Plan – pages 22-23
August 8, 2019
Dallas ISD’s “End of Average” Facilitation Guide
Dallas ISD uses this facilitation guide to study the book, “The End of Average,” and make connections to build an understanding of why personalized learning is important.
August 8, 2019
“The Final Word” Protocol
The purpose of this protocol is to give each person in a group an opportunity to have their ideas, understandings, and perspectives enhanced by hearing from others. With this protocol, a group can explore an article, clarify their thinking, and have their assumptions and beliefs questioned in order to gain a deeper understanding of the topic at hand.
August 8, 2019
Utilizing PLCs to Support New Teachers
Slides 8-13 in this deck provide an overview of professional learning communities (PLCs) and how they are introduced to new teachers in Natick Public Schools. The slides cover what PLCs are, as well as the core values, key priorities, and questions that drive PLCs to be productive and valuable for educators.
August 8, 2019
Community Walks
This article by Shane Safir explores community walks, a key strategy used by Oakland International High School in their professional development process to allow educators to learn about their community based on the students in their classes. In the article, Safir describes the steps required to implement this transformative process in a school.
August 8, 2019