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Personalized learning

Professional Learning

A Revolution in Learning One Classroom, One Educator, One Child at a Time

Distinctive Schools and LEAP Innovations want to bring personalized learning design work back to the forefront of the national conversation about education. Find out why they believe we need to work together to create classrooms our students need.
New Designs for School

Profile: Thrive Public Schools

Thrive Public Schools, a K-8 charter school in San Diego, expands the concept of school beyond core academics to encompass social-emotional intelligence and "real world" understanding. The blended learning model at Thrive integrates technology throughout a curriculum built upon project-based learning, targeted instruction, and tinkering. Students progress at their own pace, are grouped in mixed-age clusters, and loop with the same teacher-teams for two years.
New Designs for School

Horry County Public Schools: Whittemore Park Middle School

One observer of the model for this Horry County, SC district school commented, “They are really creating a new middle school model rather than shuffling the chairs in a turnaround.” The new student-centered, competency-based model, “iCAN,” has four central elements: individualized, college and career readiness, aspirations of students, and network of support.
New Designs for School

Piedmont City School District: Piedmont Middle School

At Piedmont Middle School, the future for students is changing through relevant, engaging learning opportunities, a school culture filled with hope, and a redesigned teaching and learning environment that utilizes blended learning, project-based learning, and competency-based learning to personalize education. The academic model is anchored by a focus on advanced mastery, relevance, and student ownership. This small, rural district intends to scale the model district-wide after phasing in the model at the middle school.
New Designs for School

Blackstone Valley Prep Mayoral Academy: BVP High School

This Rhode Island charter high school serves an intentionally diverse population of students from two urban and two suburban communities. The blended learning model is tailored by grade level and emphasizes differentiation, deeper learning in a community, and assessment.
Building Community

Moving Towards Next Gen Learning

Reimagining the desired outcomes and the common student experience of America’s public schools is a messy, chaotic business–and that’s what real change looks like.
Enabling Change

School Transformation in Three Broad Brush Strokes: Early, Personal and Relevant

At Vista Unified, school leaders acknowledge school transformation as a shift toward complexity, and embrace its implications on their educational program.
Enabling Change

Three Steps Toward Building Vista Unified's Three Brushstrokes

In 3 years, 100% of Vista Unified School District schools are transforming to Personal Learning pathways for all students. These 3 steps made it possible.
Professional Learning

A Learner-Centered Culture Includes Educators, Too

​Teachers in learner-centered, personalized settings act as guides for students addressing their individual needs, strengths, and goals for success.
New Designs for School

Dollars & Sense: Analyzing Financial Decisions in NGLC K-12 Breakthrough Model Schools

Is personalized learning meeting its productivity promise? The latest brief from the Center for Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) examines the budgets, operations, and sustainability of 20 breakthrough model schools in search of answers.