Devin Vodicka Interview: Moving From Traditional System Contemporary
Tweet How do you move from a traditional system to a contemporary one where personalized learning can thrive? Bena Kallick and Allison Zmuda first met Devin Vodicka when he was working as...
View ArticleMaking the Mission Statement Matter
Tweet Every district has a mission statement. We typically point to it on the walls of our schools; we pull words from it in PTO meetings and periodically review our mission for relevance. In Madison,...
View ArticleHow We are Reimagining the Possibilities with Our Middle School Staff and...
Tweet Writer and executive producer of Put It Into Words, Tim Salem is the Principal at ScottsRidge Middle School in Ridgefield, CT. He has 20+ years as an educator and administrator and was named...
View ArticleA Systems View of Personalized Learning
Tweet Get these newsletters delivered straight to your inbox! Personalized learning requires some flattening of the top-down hierarchy of school to make space for meaningful partnerships where key...
View ArticleA Reflective Approach to Personalize Learning
Tweet This post was first published on Form of the Good and is reprinted with permission. Leading change. Launching new initiatives. Driving improvement. Shifting a mindset. These phrases inspire some...
View ArticleGoing in Cold
Tweet I have probably read The Great Gatsby twenty times. With each reading I gained new knowledge to stack upon or blend with what I had already discovered. Each time I break out this text with a new...
View ArticleNew Holstein High School Has a Farm (E-I-E-I-O)
Tweet “Everyone put your chickens away!” It was, without a doubt, the first time I’d heard these words spoken in a classroom. Or anywhere, for that matter. I was on the road visiting New Holstein...
View ArticleHow Creating Choice Transformed My K-8 Art Studio
Tweet How do you create full student choice with a couple hundred of kindergarten through eighth-grade students and one art teacher? A) Pedagogy, B) Planning, and C) Personalized Learning. I am a K-8...
View ArticleHow NOT To Do Personalized Learning
Tweet By Craig Gastauer and Laura Stott On the second day of the #Empower18 ASCD Pre-Conference session, “Students at the Center: Discovering Who They are by Learning the Habits of Mind” with Art...
View ArticleGiving Voice to Teachers
Tweet Get these newsletters delivered straight to your inbox! As the school year is winding down for many, educators are in a unique space to look back on what was accomplished, what didn’t quite go...
View ArticleEmpowering Educators to Use Data to Drive Their Own Learning
Tweet First published on Inside the classroom, outside the box! and reprinted with permission. “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” -Coco Chanel We know that effectively...
View ArticleThe Power of Infographics to Motivate and Measure Student Learning
Tweet It’s Friday, just after lunch, not my most motivated class, and in two more class days, school is out for summer. I look around and see all of the students are working, actively engaged in...
View ArticleReverse Reading Conferences
Tweet This post follows somewhat on the heels of my Going in Cold post. I identified in that post that as a teacher with much experience with some texts, I want my students to immediately glean from...
View ArticleStudent Self-Discovery with PEP (Personalized Enrichment Projects)
Tweet Allison and I were invited to work with Region One, a consortium of schools in northwest CT. As a part of their strategic plan, they have identified personalized learning with Habits of Mind. We...
View ArticleMore Teacher Voices!
Tweet Get these newsletters delivered straight to your inbox! Summer is already in full swing for everyone (shout out to my New England friends who are working the last week of June) which means time...
View ArticleWithout These Three Conditions, Student Choice Probably Won’t Work
Tweet This post was first published on Leading Great Learning and is republished with permission. “If I give my students choice, I’m worried they’re going to make bad choices,” I often hear teachers...
View ArticleInterview with Mike Anderson: Choice As A Lever for Personalized Learning
Tweet Mike Anderson talks with us about how choice is a significant lever for personalizing learning. Mike is an education consultant, award-winning teacher, and author of many books including The...
View ArticleInterview with Mike Mohammad: Inviting Students to Dig Into Thinking Like...
Tweet We are thrilled to present our interview with Mike Mohammad. Mike has been a secondary educator for 16 years, 12 of which have been at Brookfield Central High School in Brookfield, Wisc. His...
View ArticleInterview with Sam Nelson: Inviting Students to the Curriculum Design Table
Tweet Sam Nelson provides a window into his middle school social studies classroom based on his imagining that started three years ago. What if students were at the curriculum design table? Sam Nelson...
View ArticleCoffee Talks with Educators
Tweet Summer is a perfect time for reflection and imagination to continue to pursue student-centered actions. It also is the perfect time to spend time with my family — including a rising Senior and...
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