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Personalized learning

Why Schools Need to Change

Mastery Education: The Education Disruption that Prepared Us for Disruption

They didn't know it at the time they started it, but personalized, mastery-based learning prepared this district community for COVID's disruptions.
Why Schools Need to Change

Portrait of a Graduate Podcast Series: Rethinking Teaching at Northern Cass

Hear from three Northern Cass educators who are rethinking their teaching practice through personalized learning, real-world connections, and relevance. (8 minutes)

Next Generation Learning Challenges, Spring 2023
Enabling Change

Setting Wildly Important Goals: From School to Classroom

Mission Vista High School in the Vista Unified School District uses Wildly Important Goals to distribute leadership and move forward with personalized learning
New Designs for School

Breakthrough Schools Colorado

Six schools in three districts redesigning for personalized learning (planning)

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New Designs for School

Schools for the Future

Personalized learning for overage/undercredited students - no longer operating.

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New Designs for School

Profile: Intrinsic Schools

Students spend time in open, flexible “pods” rather than classrooms at this 6-12 charter school in Chicago. In each half-day Humanities block and STEM block, 90 students move fluidly within a pod between individualized adaptive digital content, multimedia content, small-group instruction, seminars, and group and independent project work. Master teachers design units around essential questions and curate online curriculum.
New Designs for School

Profile: Vertus Charter School

The academic model of this charter high school for boys in Rochester, New York has four pillars: 1) strong relationships, 2) personalized year-round academics, 3) character education, and 4) career preparation.
Technology Tools

Connecting ed & tech: Partnering to drive student outcomes

All too often, the connection between teachers and technology falls flat. Pioneering schools and educators search for technology to support new instructional models, only to find that existing options do not align with their evolving classroom practices. This case study describes how Leadership Public Schools (LPS), a charter school management organization that operates high schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Gooru, a nonprofit edtech company, co-developed a technology to support LPS’s personalized learning model and improve student outcomes.
New Designs for School

Breakthrough Schools: New Orleans 2015 Cohort

Five schools working toward personalized learning in the Crescent City (Planning)

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New Designs for School

Building Empathy With Extreme Users in the Classroom With Design Thinking

A teacher's plan to glean strategies for success from students leads to a new way to co-create learning pathways with her students.