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Authors clarify what personalized learning is - and what it can do
By Suzanne Bouffard
Categories: Personalization, Reaching all students, TechnologyAugust 2019
Vol. 40 No. 4
How do we engage every student in rigorous and meaningful learning? How do we ensure that each of them is prepared for a successful future, whatever he or she might choose that to be? Our equity imperative compels us to meet the unique needs of each student, and therefore to prepare all educators to achieve that ambitious goal. A growing focus on this goal is helping to fuel a movement for personalizing learning. In this issue of The Learning Professional, we embrace the current dialogue and debate about what personalized learning is and can be, giving voice to diverse perspectives and approaches.(See, for example, “What does personalized learning mean? Experts weigh in” on p. 28.) Some of the issue’s authors write about schools in which
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Learning Forward. (2011). Standards for Professional Learning. Oxford, OH: Author
Suzanne Bouffard is senior vice president of communications and publications at Learning Forward. She is the editor of The Learning Professional, Learning Forward’s flagship publication. She also contributes to the Learning Forward blog and webinars. With a background in child development, she has a passion for making research and best practices accessible to educators, policymakers, and families. She has written for many national publications including The New York Times and the Atlantic, and previously worked as a writer and researcher at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Duke University and a B.A. from Wesleyan University. She loves working with authors to help them develop their ideas and voices for publication.
Categories: Personalization, Reaching all students, Technology
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