A Cure for Back-to-School Nightmares
Tweet The nightmares typically begin a week before school starts. I am standing in the front of the room doing everything I can to get my students’ attention. They aren’t listening, and I’m typically...
View ArticleMaking Room at the Table: How to Create Student Voice During IEP Meetings
Tweet Student led IEP meetings are meaningful opportunities for students to develop agency, self-advocacy skills and be powerful members of their team. Yet, many educators, families, and students...
View ArticleWading into the Water of Personalized Learning
Tweet Writing this on the second day of school, I don’t mind sharing that I am happily exhausted! This feeling is the result of my own passion for teaching and the collaborative energy happening inside...
View ArticleLetting Students Make the Choice
Tweet Rick Gifford knew that a worksheet where students define words and then use them in a sentence wasn’t the most engaging way for them to learn and practice math vocabulary. He wanted to spruce...
View ArticleNewsletter: Back to School
Tweet Stay up to date on the news and features regarding personalized learning— sign up to receive newsletters from Learning Personalized, straight to your inbox! It’s official! Everyone is back to...
View ArticleResponding with Wonderment and Awe: A Lifelong Habit
Tweet “The most beautiful experience in the world is the experience of the mysterious.” — Albert Einstein Have you ever witnessed a young child react to the to a magician’s sleight of hand, or exclaim...
View ArticleSmall Wins for Every Learner
Tweet Let’s be real. One of the hardest things for people to do is build a new habit. It takes commitment, focus, drive, and a constant reminder or way to trigger that action. In the learning...
View ArticleHonoring “The Why” in Unit Design and Instruction
Tweet Over the past few years of teaching English to high school juniors, I have become increasingly aware of the competitive nature of our students’ post-secondary opportunities. With so many students...
View ArticlePaying Attention to Life Skills as Part of Regular Instructional Practice
Tweet Zoe Zmuda — a sophomore in high school — created this YouTube video as a culminating artifact to reflect on how education leaders (from classroom to consultant) pay attention to life skills as...
View ArticleHow Emergencies Can Recalibrate Our Roles, Priorities, and Perspectives
Tweet Emergencies can take your breath away, recalibrating our roles, priorities, and perspectives. I have recently experienced this when an emergency temporarily sidelined my travel and the way in...
View ArticleRefocus on Learning, Not Earning
Tweet By Jamie Dicks and Julianna Traxler It was two weeks before the school year began, and we were making about 1,248 decisions about how the school year would go and what preparations we would need...
View ArticleNurturing the Seeds of Talent and Passion within Learners
Tweet When I was twenty years old, I was standing in Benton Hall at Miami University, talking with my education professor after our 7 p.m. night class. While talking with my professor, I remember...
View ArticleNurturing a “Literacy of Me”
Tweet This school year I began to lead a book study on the Quest for Learning: How to Maximize Student Engagement and found myself powerfully reminded that our students need to not only form learning...
View ArticleThe Day the Students Designed Their Test
Tweet As an advocate for personalized learning, my perspective is simple: I’m constantly looking for ways to foster learner agency and put students at the center of the learning. To that end, this is...
View ArticleFeedback and Learning: How Am I Doing?
Tweet Disillusioned It’s a bittersweet sting. After brainstorming and modeling, students begin drafting their thoughts. We’re minutes in and the question enters: “Can you take a look at this and let me...
View ArticleThe Thinker: Praise the Tortoise and Recognize the Hare
Tweet As human beings, we all possess an ability to think and process information in order to make sense of an idea. Completing a task like this varies with regard to an individual’s speed, accuracy,...
View ArticleCranberry Science and a Splash of Red
Tweet The sun blazed, warming the October morning air. It glinted off the still waters of the cranberry bog, where more than fifty visitors were gathered around several high school students to learn...
View ArticlePrioritizing Investigation and Choice in Student Learning
Tweet While I am definitely a learner in personalized learning, my revelation this week has been that we should “lean away” from unit design and lesson plan design that involves one master planner and...
View ArticleImagining Personalized Learning as A Mosaic: How District Level Leaders...
Tweet By H. Alan Seibert and Curtis Hicks Alan Seibert has held leadership positions at the high, middle, and elementary levels in Salem City Schools over a 29 year career and is currently in his 14th...
View ArticleLeveraging Choice-Boards as an Opportunity for Co-Creation with Students
Simply put, "choice boards" can be described as menus or playlists of different learning materials. The post Leveraging Choice-Boards as an Opportunity for Co-Creation with Students appeared first on...
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