Personalized Learning

Personalized learning is a mindset and approach to teaching that focuses on meeting each learner where they are and tailoring a curriculum that considers their interests, prior knowledge and skill level, and pace. Such a demand on the teacher requires sophisticated usage of technology in a combination of personalized, blended and online learning.

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New Pathways

Tacoma Adding More Personalized Learning Opportunities

Rebecca Midles

Rebecca Midles shares how Tacoma Public Schools has taken a collaborative approach to developing its choice schools, working with teachers, parents, and community members to create schools that reflect the needs and interests of the local community.
Personalized Learning

Students Are Calling BS on High School and Opportunity Knocks

Trace Pickering

Schools talk a lot about personalizing learning, of meeting kids where they are, and yet we see most high schools continue forward with prescribed, discipline-specific courses that continues to isolate disciplines from one another despite the fact that they are highly interrelated.

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Personalized Learning

Navigating Education While Blindfolded

Matt Piercy

How often are students asked what they really care about? How often are they provided time to observe their environment and determine problems? What happens if we begin to ask these questions?

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Personalized Learning

Ma Ka Hana Ka ʻIke: In Working, One Learns

Guest Author

Ma Ka Hana Ka ʻIke is a youth-focused vocational training, educational, and community-based nonprofit in Hāna, Maui. Through core programs and initiatives, Ma Ka Hana Ka ʻIke empowers and nurtures students and graduates to become caretakers and leaders of their communities.