Leveraging Choice-Boards as an Opportunity for Co-Creation with Students
by Mason City Schools has been on a Personalized Learning Journey for the past two years where leadership and staff have immersed ourselves in the everyday …
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My Journey Into Creating A Design Challenge
by In a contemporary analysis unit I recently designed, students were asked to analyze two, opposing texts on a debatable topic and then develop their own …
Using Essential Questions to Personalize Learning
When you ask an open-ended question, how many valid answers might students come up with? Ten? One hundred? Thousands? Personalized Learning thought leaders Jay McTighe …
Prioritizing Investigation and Choice in Student Learning
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 …
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 …
Week #7: Design Challenge
One thing I tried: In our summer PL training we did a design challenge, and I loved the idea because it’s hands-on exploratory learning that forces …
#MasonPLJourney Wakelet Update
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Honoring “The Why” in Unit Design and Instruction
Over the past few years of teaching English to high school juniors, I have become increasingly aware of the competitive nature of our students’ post-secondary …
Students Take Ownership – Engaging the Community
Students in Mrs. Parkinson’s class recently began their year-long study in rhetoric. Learning Experience Design Joe Muhlberg helped her and her students engage the wider …
Week #3: Co-creating Essential Questions
One thing I tried: To get unit 2 started, we spent the first day crafting some essential questions for the unit they chose, Friday Night …