1. 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

2. 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

3. 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.
Lynne

4. 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

5. 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

6. Personalized Learning in Eastern Carver County Schools

7. 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

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

9. Specialized Instruction and Personalization
Whitney will give metaphor

10. 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.
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11. 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.

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

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

16. PUTTING
ALL IT
TOGETHER!
Robin

17. 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

18. 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

19. Personalized Learning opportunities
Option 1: Personal Flex - explore ECCS website
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

20. Collaborative Environment

21. Collaborative Environment Examples

22. Engagement with LEarning Tools
Link to Engagement with Learning Tools Video

23. Engagement with LEarning Tools Examples:

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

25. Purposeful Instruction , Assessment and Feedback Samples

26. Learner Voice and Choice

27. Learner Voice and Choice Samples

28. Purposeful Learning

29. Purposeful Learning Samples

30. 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

31. Resources Used in this Presentation
National Center for Learning Disabilities-
The Institute for Personalized Learning-Division of CESA #1-
Eastern Carver County Schools-
Tapping the Power of Personalized Learning by James Rickabaugh