Kristen Watkins, Director, Personalized Learning at Dallas ISD describes the launch of personalized learning “camping trips” to support virtual communities of practice.
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.
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.
Dr. Eric Langhorst, OER coordinator and middle school U.S. history teacher from Liberty Public Schools, provides an overview of his journey to implementing OER. He shares his process of restructuring his planning by starting with the standards and incorporating many tools to move towards deeper learning and engagement with his students.
In January 2015, The Learning Accelerator and our grantees partnered with Yet Analytics to launch a new project to create a common language and frame for identifying resources and learning across organizations and platforms. The goal of this project was to map the open content created by Initiative grantees, connect them to a shared competency-based framework using a data interoperability specification, and explore how this concept model could be used as an open standard for professional training and development. This white paper represents the progress and working concept model for this project.
This blog post from Getting Smart illustrates how Fulton County built out their capacity in a strategic manner by building a Vangard Team, comprised of educators who have mastered the art of technology use with classroom instruction.
This Personalized Learning Coaching and Development Rubric (PL Toolbox) from Dallas ISD maps out clear competency strands, identifies ways to show mastery in practice, and observational guides to drive meaningful reflection and discussions. This tool also includes a three phase progression to allow all educators a personalized entry point into the content.
This document maps out Thrive Public Schools’ approach to blended learning including their definition, the 10 ways blended learning happens at Thrive, and even additional resources to learn more.
Thrive Public Schools’ Blended Learning Rubric maps out not only their approach to blended learning but the key pieces needed to be successful within their blended model. It also allows an educator to map our their personal level of mastery and application by assessing themselves within each strand.
Summit Public Schools, a leading personalized learning school system, has created a unique educator learning platform called PLP Pro. On this site, you can access two frameworks for teacher learning, including essential Educator Skills and Habits of Success.
