personalized learning
Learner-Driven Communities
A look at learner-driven communities, a new category of personalized learning that teaches and creates environments that encourage, “extreme agency”.
Better Together: Why Networks Are the Future of Learning
The new thing in education is working in networks. And there’s good reason because the demands of the work have outstripped the toolset. Creating powerful learning is hard work and there’s no reason for teacher teams to work alone. Networks make powerful learning possible at scale.
Empower Learners: 10 Lessons on Innovation Leadership
Kettle Moraine school district is a leader in personalized learning and their leadership is an inspiring example for any organization. Here's a look at 10 leadership lessons from Superintendent Patricia DeKlotz.
Teaching Students How to Bring Their Dreams to Life
By: Piet Grymonprez. Young children have a strong capacity for 'having a go'. How can we foster the capacity to imagine, dream and try in students? MyMachine is working to do just that. They are helping bring student dreams to life.
Fresno Professionals Shifting Practices Towards Personalized Learning
A look at Fresno Unified School District and their goals for greater personalized, competency-based learning at and beyond the classroom.
How Can Children Aspire to Careers They Don’t Know Exist?
By: Ed Hidalgo. By connecting exciting career options to learning, class work becomes more valuable, reinforcing the idea that school is a path to something that can be fun and rewarding. This district doesn't think career exploration is a "big kid only" topic.
Powerful Learning Experiences: Why All Students Deserve Access
It is only by equalizing access to opportunities for powerful learning (by providing authentic, student-centered experiences) for all students that we will close the experience gap.
9 Ways To Make Student Work Authentic
Making learning more “real” has long been a goal of those who have promoted everything from project-based learning to career technical education. Both learners and learning facilitators want learning where the ‘why’ is an integral part of the process. It’s this desire to be “real” that has now found its way into our vernacular as “authenticity”.
South Carolina’s Statewide Movement to Personalize Learning
Across South Carolina, there is a movement to personalize learning for all students. Some districts in the state have even spearheaded their own initiatives, and the state is working to use them as "learning labs" for others. Here, we take a detailed look at their progress so far.
Author Todd Rose: Learning is Personal, So is Success
A look into the work of Todd Rose, his upcoming book, "Dark Horse," and why learning and success must be and are so personal.