Full Description
Pathways to Personalization offers an innovative five-step framework to help school leaders and teacher teams design and implement blended and personalized learning initiatives based on local needs and interests. The book draws on principles of improvement science and change management, as well as work in nearly five hundred classrooms, to help educators define their own rationale for personalized learning; it guides them as they establish small pilot initiatives, determine criteria for success, evaluate their efforts, and create a path for replication and scale. Filled with activities and templates for organizing information and student feedback, the book also includes many examples of how district leaders, school principals, and teachers have successfully navigated the change process to create more student-centered classrooms.
Shifting a school or district to offer more personalized learning requires a great deal of commitment, passion, and energy, but it also demands a strategic process. Pathways to Personalization meets this need by providing a field-tested road map for educators seeking ways to meet the academic and emotional needs of all students, and to empower them to take charge of their own learning.
Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. The Pathway to Personalization Framework
SECTION I. PLAN
2. Building Knowledge
3. Laying the Groundwork
4. Designing Your Plan
SECTION II. PILOT
5. Recruiting Pilot Teachers
6. Structuring the Learning Process
7. Evaluating the Pilot
SECTION III. REFINE
8. Creating Pathways
SECTION IV. GROW
9. Aligning Communication and Strategic Scaling
10. Contemplating the Curriculum Challenge
11. Personalizing Professional Learning
SECTION V. NETWORK
12. Accelerating Through Collaboration
Epilogue
APPENDICES
A. Sample Memorandum of Understanding for Design Team Members
B. Human Capital Assessment
C. Priority Practices Tool
D. Sample Memorandum of Understanding for Pilot Teachers
E. Priority Practices Tool with Strategies
F. Common Blended and Personalized Entry Points
Notes
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Index
