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    By Amy Geurkink-Coats
    Categories: Implementation, Learning designs, Outcomes, Personalization, Technology
    August 2019
    Vol. 40 No. 4
    Personalized learning for students is gaining steam across the country and pushing on traditional instructional practices. But many teachers have never experienced personalized learning themselves, making it challenging to implement it for students (Sawchuck, 2015). How do we develop professional learning for educators to support the success of these new efforts and ensure learning for all? As personalization experts Tom Vander Ark and Karen Cator (2015) said, “If we want more students to experience powerful learning, we need to create development pathways that allow school and district leaders to benefit from the same blended, competency-based, and deeper learning experiences that they seek to create for students.” Parkway School District in west St. Louis County, Missouri, sought to develop a professional learning process that follows this

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    Amy Geurkink-Coats

    Amy Geurkink-Coats (acoats@parkwayschools.net) is talent development coordinator for Parkway School District in Missouri.

    Personalized Professional Learning handbook

    View or download the Parkway Schools professional learning handbook at bit.ly/2XX7nv2.

    References

    Sawchuk, S. (2015, September 3). Teacher evaluation: An issue overview. Education Week. Available at www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/teacher-performance-evaluation-issue-overview.html.

    TNTP. (2015). The mirage: Confronting the hard truth about our quest for teacher development. New York, NY: Author.

    Vander Ark, T. & Cator, K. (2015). Preparing leaders for deeper learning [Web log post]. Available at blogs.edweek.org/edweek/on_innovation/2015/05/preparing_leaders_for_deeper_learning.html.


    Talent Development Coordinator at Parkway School District | + posts

    Amy Geurkink-Coats (amygcoats@gmail.com) serves as talent development coordinator in the Parkway School District.


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