1. bit.ly/PLProjectSurvey
Please take this quick survey to help track and guide learning throughout the project
(it will only take ten minutes)
bit.ly/PLProjectSurvey

2. Personalized Learning Networking Session
August 31, 2017

3. Who is in the room?

4. Housekeeping
Thanks APS!

5. Our Norms You Can’t Be Wrong Make Your Partner Look Brilliant
Beginner’s Mindset
Accept Non-Closure

6. Let’s Practice: Build to Think!

7. Let’s Practice: Build to Think!

8. Let’s Practice: Build to Think!
Rock climbers need a way to clean their teeth that is edible.

9. Let’s Practice: Build to Think!
Step 1 (3 minutes): Form a group of 2-3 designers, each person from a different district. Yes, YOU are a designer!
Step 2 (2 minutes): Flip your cards, rapidly say ideas for solutions and decide on one solution to build.
Step 3 (3 minutes): Build to think! Prototype a solution that helps generate more ideas!
Step 4 (7 minutes): Pitch your idea to two other groups, and listen to their ideas as well (three groups together)

10. Let’s Practice: Build to Think!
Step 1 (3 minutes): Form a group of 2-3 designers, each person from a different district. Yes, YOU are a designer!
Step 2 (2 minutes): Flip your cards, rapidly say ideas for solutions and decide on one solution to build.
Step 3 (3 minutes): Build to think! Prototype a solution that helps generate more ideas!
Step 4 (7 minutes): Pitch your idea to two other groups, and listen to their ideas as well (three groups together)

11. Our Goal
Objective: 1) Build initial definition of personalized learning 2) Learn and practice skills for empathy building Outcome: 1) Teams will build a plan to investigate the needs of their students in a personalized learning environment.

12. Agenda
Unpack Personalized Learning Defined Define our End-Users Practice Strategies to Build Understanding of User Need Develop Plan to Build Context for PL

13. Purpose
For Students For Schools For Teachers For Districts

14. What is the PL Project? Need Content Assumptions Practices Aligned
Seek To Understand
Assumptions
Practices
Test Ideas
Aligned
Informed
Build Vision PD
Coaching
Learn Skills
Implement
Iterate
Execute

15. Level 2 Level 1 Scale or Scrap PL Networking Session PL SIBE
Personalized Learning Pathway
Site Visits to Observe Activities
Level 2
Hack Mindset Training Session
Short Cycle Innovation Training
Visioning and Strategic Planning/ Project Management
Scale or Scrap
Content training for Implementation schools
Progress monitoring
District network development

16. Design Level 1 Implement PL Networking Session PL SIBE
Personalized Learning Pathway
Site Visits to Observe Activities
Design
Planning Meetings with Incubate Schools
Kick-off Convening: Hack Mindset
Short Cycle Innovation Training
2 Day Visioning and Strategic Planning/ Project Management Training
Content training for Implementation schools
Implement
Applying training support
Progress monitoring
District network development

17. Project Expectations
Push yourself to engage Participate fully inside and outside of sessions Question Share Seek alignment and outcomes

18. Outcomes

19. What is personalized learning?
Why explore personalized learning in your context?

20. at the same school level,
Please form groups of 3
at the same school level,
but each member from a
different district.
You need something
to take notes.

21. Triad Interviews
Refer to driving questions for support!

22. Definitions of Personalized Learning
“Personalized learning is a student-driven model in which students deeply engage in meaningful, authentic, and rigorous challenges to demonstrate desired outcomes.” - Zmuda, Curtis, &Ullman, 2015

23. Definitions of Personalized Learning
“Personalized learning is a student-driven model in which students deeply engage in meaningful, authentic, and rigorous challenges to demonstrate desired outcomes.” - Zmuda, Curtis, &Ullman, 2015

24. Definitions of Personalized Learning
“Personalized learning is a student-driven model in which students deeply engage in meaningful, authentic, and rigorous challenges to demonstrate desired outcomes.”
Discuss:
Which of these is most important?

25. Change Roles!!! Triad Interviews
Refer to driving questions for support!

26. Definitions of Personalized Learning
“Personalized learning is a student-driven model in which students deeply engage in meaningful, authentic, and rigorous challenges to demonstrate desired outcomes.”
Discuss:
Which of these is most important?

27. Change Roles!!! Triad Interviews
Refer to driving questions for support!

28. Definitions of Personalized Learning
“Personalized learning is a student-driven model in which students deeply engage in meaningful, authentic, and rigorous challenges to demonstrate desired outcomes.”
Discuss:
Which of these is most important?

29. http://bit.ly/2xG6hpU (Un)Focus Groups
Norm to use: YOU CAN’T BE WRONG!!
1st: (with your School Team) Review the definition
2nd: Share about student-driven model for 8 Min.
3rd: Share about engage in challenges for 8 Min.
4th: Share about demonstrate desired outcomes for 8 Min.
*Take Notes in Google Doc!
** Time will be kept by facilitators

30. Break

31. Focus on your (Un)Focus Group
What was an exciting or inspiring idea or conversation you had with someone? What was something that you are not sure about that you want to think about more? How did it feel to just sit and listen, ask questions, answer questions in isolation? Did you learn more listening, asking or talking? How?

32. What is Design Thinking

33. Why do we use design thinking?

35. Empathize
Identify the underlying human need.

36. Design Research
“If I had asked customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.”
- Henry Ford

37. Design research is not…

38. Who is the “End-User” of our learning environment?
Students Engaged Students ↔ Disengaged Students Extraverted Students ↔ Introverted Students English Language Learner ↔ Native Speaker Historical “A” Students ↔ Historical “C” Students Hard Worker ↔ Just gets it

39. Who is the “End-User” of our learning environment?
Who are your “end-users?”

40. Proto-Personas

41. Representative Student’s Sketch and Demographics
Proto-Personas
Representative Student’s Sketch and Demographics
Behaviors / Beliefs
Needs
Goals

42. Proto-Personas Student’s Sketch and Demographics 10-Year-Old
Lower- middle income (no economic supports such as FRL)
Single Parent Home
Below grade level in reading

43. Proto-Personas Behaviors / Beliefs High Attendance Compliant
Becomes fatigued during longer periods of work
Believes he is not strong academically
Believes he has strong social abilities

44. Proto-Personas Needs A way to expend energy during the day
Collaborative work with other students
Brain Breaks
Direct and timely feedback on academic work
Opportunities to redo work after feedback from the teacher
Support in talking about academics with parents

45. Proto-Personas Goals College
Making the middle school soccer team next year

46. Proto-Personas Step 1 (15 minutes):
Individually, fill out proto-personas about your end-users (students)…as many as you can!

47. Proto-Personas Step 2 (5 minutes):
Share your proto-personas with your team, then vote on 4 or 5 that best represent your students.

48. Why? Proto-Personas Step 3 (15 minutes):
As a team, re-define these 4-5 proto-personas on these papers:
Why?

49. Proto-personas Help define who to build empathy with.
Will be used to examine and re-examine our understandings and assumptions of users throughout the project.

50. Proto-Personas Step 3 (15 minutes):
As a team, re-define these 4-5 proto-personas on these papers:

51. Proto-Personas Step 4 (15 minutes):
See the bottom portion of this paper. For each proto-persona, place or draw a dot on the spectrum for that student.

52. How is this student best served?
Fully Student
Driven
Fully Teacher
Driven
Real-world
project-based
environments
Curriculum-driven learning
environments
Authentic
application as
assessment
Quizzes/Tests only as assessment

53. Proto-Personas Step 4 (15 minutes):
Unfold the bottom portion of this paper. For each proto-persona, place or draw a dot on the spectrum for that student.

54. bit.ly/PLProjectSurvey
Lunch
If you did not already do so,
please take this quick survey to help track and guide learning throughout the project
(it will only take ten minutes)
bit.ly/PLProjectSurvey

55. What is the PL Project
Need
Content
Seek To Understand
Assumptions
Practices
Test Ideas
Aligned
Informed
Build Vision PD
Coaching
Learn Skills
Implement
Iterate
Execute
The rest of today will prepare us for coming back together on October 25th

56. Empathize
Identify the underlying human need.

57. Empathy Approaches Observing (in context) Mapping
Immersing (experiencing it for yourself)
Shadow a student
Engaging (looking, listening, learning)
Card Sorting

58. Empathy Approaches

59. Empathy Tools Training
3 Rotations, 10 minutes each
What tools best fit YOU as a designer, and which best fit YOUR USER?

60. Upcoming Seeing Is Believing Expeditions
Grant Beacon Middle School
When: September 20, 2017
Where: 1751 S Washington St, Denver CO 80210
Trailblazer Elementary
When: October 5, 2017
Where: 2015 Wickes Rd, Colorado Springs, CO 80919
Denver School of Innovation and Sustainable Design
When: November 8, 2017
Where: 840 E 14th Ave, Denver, CO 80218
Questions?

61. Due to your District Lead by September 15th
Team action planning
September 1 – October 24: Build empathy with your end-users
October 25:
Networking Session II
Due to your District Lead by September 15th

62. Feedback: Please help us improve!
Thank you for your time!
Looking forward to us convening again on October 25th!
Paul Beck:
Jon Blumenfield: