Description
Book SynopsisPathways 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.
Table of 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
