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Category Archives: Customized Learning
What We Want from Technology – MLTI, Customized Learning, and School Vision
There have been many discussions around Maine since the Governor announced schools would have choice over which solution they select for MLTI for the next four years. But most of those conversations have focused on the device, or its capabilities, … Continue reading
The Phases of Implementing Customized Learning: The Series
One lesson our district has learned from working with other districts further along with implementing Customized Learning is “not all at once!” There are many components to the school reform effort, and following a certain sequence seems to lead to … Continue reading
Posted in Customized Learning, Leadership
Tagged Phases if Implementing CL
How the Phases Help Support Implementation and Teachers
The Phases of Implementation are actually a tool to leverage in support of teachers and the school's or district's implementation of Customized Learning. The components of Customized Learning are certainly not new to schools, but successfully implementing CL depends on … Continue reading
Form Follows Function: The Phases Inform Structural Change
One of the big mistakes schools and districts new to Customized Learning make too often is to make structural changes to things like grading, grade levels, courses, and student grouping too early in the change process. I think this happens … Continue reading
Posted in Customized Learning, Leadership
Tagged Phases if Implementing CL
If It Sounds Crazy, That’s Probably Not How They’re Doing It
Teachers can sometimes have wild ideas about how a new initiative will work, but a recent experience helped us figure out how to lower teachers's anxiety. A while back, one of the schools I'm working with had a staff meeting … Continue reading
Overview of The Phases of Implementing Customized Learning
Implementing Customized Learning can certainly seem like a daunting task! I have written previously about the need to find a way to think of approaching implementation in a manageable way. In reviewing the work of other schools and organizations further … Continue reading
Modeling of Customized Learning (Paradigm Shifting)
Although teachers can often apply familiar best practices to unfamiliar contexts, the integration of Customized Learning is often a paradigm shift for teachers, involving practices they are not familiar with. Rarely have teachers experienced Customized Learning themselves, and, collectively, Maine … Continue reading
Posted in Customized Learning, Professional Development
Tagged PD for Paradigm Shift
A Vision of Customized Learning
It is the vision of my district (and the others who are members of the Maine Cohort for Customized Learning) to expertly prepare every child for a future yet to be imagined. We look to achieve this by restructuring our … Continue reading
Posted in Customized Learning, Shared Vision
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Are We Ready to Trust Teachers with School Change?
It won't surprise any of you that once you really start digging into how to systemically implement Customized Learning, it doesn't take long to figure out that you need shared leadership, and that teachers need to be an active part … Continue reading
Posted in Customized Learning, Leadership
Tagged Leadership, Teacher Leadership
The Curriculum and Customized Learning Series
When you start changing how you organize school for performance-based learning and recognizing that people learn in different ways and in different time frames, you quickly realize that the center of school shifts from courses to the curriculum and where … Continue reading
Posted in Learning Progress Management
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