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Tech unlocks teachers’ capacity
What is personalized learning? If nothing else, it’s a term that’s hard to pin down. Educators of various stripes use the word “personalized” to label a variety of approaches — ranging from ..
Bridging the gap
Inside Prodeo Academy’s St. Paul, Minnesota, campus, students walk quietly across polished wooden floors in their navy-and-white uniforms. The majority of the school’s 77 students are refugees, ma..
Student-led learning takes well-prepared educators
For more than 20 years, the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center (known as the Met) has been personalizing learning to our students’ interests and needs. The Met, which today is a ne..
Students take ownership of learning
Imagine walking into an 8th-grade science classroom and hearing a discussion among students about a challenging assignment they recently completed. These students have spent the last few days studying..
Want to personalize learning for students?
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, ma..
One vision, many paths
Educators deserve professional learning tailored to their needs, but far too many models for personalization are built on a faulty foundation of myths. Those myths include the assumption that personal..
What teachers need to reach at-risk students
Rodney Robinson was named 2019 Teacher of The Year by the Council of Chief State School Officers. He teaches social studies and history to students in grades 6-12 at Virgie Binford Education Center, a..
Issue themes for 2020
Here are the themes and submission deadlines for the first four issues of The Learning Professional in 2020: February 2020: Listening to student voice. Deadline: Nov. 1, ..
Micro approach, major impact
As a classroom teacher for 29 years before becoming an instructional coach, I have been on the receiving end of many well-intentioned school initiatives and professional learning experiences that have..
2019 Summer Institutes
At Learning Forward’s 2019 Summer Institutes, held last month in Boston, Massachusetts, participants engaged in four days of intensive learning about selecting and implementing high-quality instruct..
