Changing Systems to Personalize Learning

This series of guidebooks supports school staff in conducting professional development workshops to better understand personalized learning.

Currently available guidebooks:

Introduction to the Personalization Workshops >>
Provides background information on the systems that must change in order to create more personalized environments for teaching and learning.

Personalized Learning >>
Explores the scope of personalization and how to get students involved in designing their own learning pathway by using Personal Learning Plans and Student Presentations.

The Power of Advisories >>
Illustrates ways to introduce an adult advocate into the life of every student to help guide student planning, learning, and assessment.

Teaching to Each Student >>
Introduces teaching methods that allow students with different skills, aspirations, and interests to succeed in meeting standards.

The Changing Systems workshops and guidebooks are drawn from eight years of helping schools find ways for diverse students to meet uniform expectations. They are also based on two earlier studies that form the foundation of the research: a shadowing study of student engagement in seven high schools, (Personalized Learning, pp.173-194), and a description of five high schools undertaking reform at different levels of organization, Dynamics of Change in High School Teaching.

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