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    Personalized learning in action

    A view from 2 districts

    By Virgel Hammonds and Robin Kanaan
    August 2019
    Vol. 40 No. 4
    Transforming a learning community from a traditional system to a personalized environment that serves every learner isn’t easy. It requires a strong vision for teaching and learning driving every decision, from how a district budgets to how teachers co-create classroom rules with their students. Aligning resources and activities to that vision is a necessity, as is gathering data to inform the work and gauge impact. But most challenging is rethinking what teaching and learning can be. That happens through supporting teachers in taking risks, using learner-centered practices and building them up so that once they’ve seen the changes in their classrooms and their schools, no one can imagine going back. If we approach the work with the belief that students should own their learning, it

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    Virgel Hammonds and Robin Kanaan

    Virgel Hammonds (hammondsv@knowledgeworks.org) is chief learning officer and Robin Kanaan (kanaanr@knowledgeworks.org) is director of teaching and learning at KnowledgeWorks.

    References

    Williams, M., Moyer, J., & Jenkins, S. (2014). District conditions for scale: A practical guide to scaling personalized learning. Available at knowledgeworks.org/resources/district-conditions-scale-personalized-learning.


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