Feedback and Learning: How am I doing?
by Disillusioned It’s a bittersweet sting. After brainstorming and modeling, students begin drafting their thoughts. We’re minutes in and the question enters “Can you take a …
Category: Reflections
Prioritizing Investigation and Choice in Student Learning
by While I am definitely a learner in personalized learning, my revelation this week has been that we should “lean away” from unit design and lesson …
5 Tools for Self-Discovery
Making Meaning through Self-Discovery Meet Lola- a young girl challenged to capture the essence of her hometown. With deep desire, “Lola closed her eyes and …
Connect Your Thoughts
Mind Map/ Concept Map A mind map is a way to display the interconnectedness of ideas. Mind maps are helpful for brainstorming and categorizing information- …
The Deliberate Messes We Should Make More Often
The Metaphor: From the Learning Space to the Planning Space As I was teaching the other day, class had ended and my classroom was a …
Going Places!
by Posted by Tina, written by Haley Glandorff. Sometimes, the best lessons are the ones we don’t plan! Our class read the book Going Places! by …
Week #9: End of Q1 reflections/takeaways
by PL is really about finding ways to allow the learning to be more student-driven and to transfer ownership of the learning.The question I find that …
Nurturing A “Literacy Of Me”
In “What Role Does Personalization Play in College and Career Readiness?” Julia Osteen includes Ed Hidalgo’s proposal that students should graduate with a “mission of …
Atomic Moves in Personalized Learning
Barb Shuba shares her reflections on giving students ownership of learning in chemistry. As I have begun to dive into the world of personalized learning …
Week #8: Running reading workshop
One thing I tried: We began unit 3 this week and students are reading a book they’ve chosen based on our unit’s theme from a list that we …