Personalized Learning Aren’t We Already Doing That? Eastern Carver County Schools Jenny Blanchette, Robin Bloom, Whitney Brauchla, Jen Hayes, Lynne Patterson Lynne 1-6

7 seconds to make a first impression 20 positive interactions to a wipe-out a negative one GO MAKE A POSITIVE IMPRESSION ON SOMEONE YOU DON'T KNOW! Find one person you do not know and tell them your reason for attending this session and what you hope to get from it. Lynne

Learning Targets Lynne I can learn about the implementation of Personalized Learning in Eastern Carver County Schools and how special education services (while targeting specific student needs) is enhanced by personalization of these targeted skills. I can identify opportunities to personalize learning for students receiving specialized education services. I can identify benefits of personalizing learning for students who receive specialized education services. http://wearepersonalizedlearning.org/ Lynne

Personalized learning Defined Learning is a personal experience. By co-designing meaningful learning opportunities with teachers and mentors, the individual is at the center of her/his learning. Instruction is something we do with, rather than to, learners to promote growth, achievement, and lifelong success. Lynne

Start with Why, Stay with Why, clear about what and flexible about how! Why are you doing this? Staying with why are you doing this. Clear about what you are doing. Read “LIVE” Naturally example: clear expectations of what you need to do/flexible on how that looks Doesn't happen all at once. It happens in stages. Think of one thing you can do and implement. Once that is mastered, move to another idea Whitney

Personalized Learning in Eastern Carver County Schools

Specialized Education vs. Personalized Learning In specialized education we assess to inform what the instruction should be. (what we are missing) In personalized learning we assess to inform how we work with learners. (how are we learning these things) Think about the above statements. Discuss with your elbow partner “what this means” Lynne

Differentiation Cars for Most Individualization Cars for All Personalization Cars for You Whitney

Specialized Instruction and Personalization Whitney will give metaphor

Personalized Learning: Meeting the needs of Students with Disabilities The National Center for Learning Disabilities with funding from the Gates Foundation set out to develop policy recommendations at the federal and state level and recommendations for best practices in school so students with disabilities were included in the development, implementation and evaluation of personalized learning system. Read the entire article by clicking here

Through our investigation, it became evident that no two students will have the same learning needs and that personalized learning systems are uniquely positioned to address student-specific needs.

How Are We Preparing our Special Education Students to Be Successful? Focus on EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING Deficits TIME MANAGEMENT SKILLS PRIORITIZING oRGANIZING INITIATING SELF REGULATING EXPLORE… LEARNING STYLE BEST LEARNING ENVIRONMENT HOW DO YOU LEARN BEST HOW DO YOU SHOW WHAT YOU KNOW

Our Personalized Learning Journey in Special Education Curriculum Mapping, Power Standards & Learning Target work for replacement courses specifically designed to target specialized instruction and aligned with general education counterpoints All staff expected to attend PL/EP/Empower Cohorts General and Special Education “All Ed”Professional Development Professional Learning Community (PLC’s) focused on PL Addition of .5 Specialized Services Coordinator focused on PD/PL Specific Personalized Learning Cohorts with district paraprofessional Summer writing grants to develop personalized learning pathways, Four Block model for ELA Summer writing grants to develop personalized PD for staff

Critical Thinking Circles WHEN & HOW DOES HAPPEN? Personalized Learning ANY TIME ANY PLACE ANY PATH ANY PACE ANY DEVICE Seminar Coaching Workshop Conference Personal Flex Group Flex Critical Thinking Circles Learner Led Workshop Lab DEFINITIONS

SEMINAR, INDEPENDENT FLEX, COACHING SESSION, GROUP FLEX.... FLEXIBLE LEARNING SEMINAR, INDEPENDENT FLEX, COACHING SESSION, GROUP FLEX.... Jenny

PUTTING ALL IT TOGETHER! Robin

General Education/Special Education Course Alignment Teams worked together to develop an alignment of general education courses and special education courses. By doing this we determined the replacement courses that needed to be mapped with power standards and learning targets developed. Robin

Here and Now...moving forward Completing PS/LT in several of our courses-Link to our Study Skills PS/LT Replacement Classes Piloting Empower Replacement classes teaching to the standards Working towards alignment across buildings and grade levels CB creating PS/LT for academic and Essential Skills CB-Core vocabulary Lynne

Personalized Learning opportunities Option 1: Personal Flex - explore ECCS website www.wearepersonalized.org Options 2: Group Flex - In a group fo 2 to 4 people Discuss what you learned? Takeaways from today? Surprises along the way? Things to take back to your districts? Roadblocks you may be thinking about? Questions you still have? Option 3: Coaching Seminar - view storyboards or watch one of the video on the elements of the personalized learning STAR and discuss/ask questions of facilitators Lynne: Opportunity to experience personalized learning…..go over… Explain rest of information on Presentation

Collaborative Environment

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Engagement with LEarning Tools Link to Engagement with Learning Tools Video

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Purposeful Instruction , Assessment and Feedback Link to video of Purposeful Instruction, Assessment and Feedback Link to Purposeful Instruction and Assessment Information

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Learner Voice and Choice

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Purposeful Learning

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Personalized Flex Resources Personalized Learning: Meeting the Needs of Students with Disabilities Learning Gets Personal Meeting the Needs of Students with Disabilties: Roadmap for Educators Rethinking Learning; Website by Barabara Bray Ten Trends of Personalized Learning-2017 WHO: Helping Students to Reflect on WHAT: 60 Things Students Can Create to Demonstrate What they Know WHEN: Meeting Deadlines and Keeping Schedules WHERE: Visualizing 21st-Century Classroom Design WHY: Promoting Student Self-Assessment HOW: Gold Standard PBL: Student Voice & Choice ; What is Genius Hour (video) ; Learning Menu video

Resources Used in this Presentation National Center for Learning Disabilities- http://www.ncld.org/archives/reports-and-studies/personalizedlearning The Institute for Personalized Learning-Division of CESA #1- http://institute4pl.org/ Eastern Carver County Schools- http://wearepersonalizedlearning.org/ Tapping the Power of Personalized Learning by James Rickabaugh