Craft Category: Strategies

Investing in personalized learning school leaders through multiple coaching and training options.

Henry County Schools created five core tenets of personalized learning to help schools identify primary areas of change in their instructional practices.

Henry County Schools selects a small number of schools each year to transition to personalized learning. Each cohort is provided with additional resources to plan and implement the change.

Henry County Schools provides monetary support, invests in people, and takes time to talk through issues and challenges of transitioning to personalized learning.

Identifying different levels of understanding for learning targets and challenging students to complete the higher levels.

Creating district-level competencies that help clarify learning expectations for educators, students, and families.

Teachers provide soft deadlines to students to help them stay on track while working at their own pace.

Students use learner pathways to progress through content and instruction. These pathways are modified based on what the students has shown they already know or need to work on.

Teachers at Locust Grove provide small group instruction to students with similar learning needs. These groups can shift as often as daily, based on student progress.

Students and teachers frequently conference to discuss student data and progress, as well as any modifications to their instruction.