It’s tough to describe most implementations of personalized learning—especially to students and parents—in a way that conveys how it works on a ...

"Unfortunately, that’s even more confusing to parents, especially since it’s loaded with terminology and acronyms that send them into a tizzy. How else could they feel when we tell them we want their student in our problem-based, mastery-driven, self-directed, 1:1, personalized, bell-less classroom? Or when we talk about ever-changing schedules and how grades are determined through students’ public exhibition of work, which is scored along a cognitive skills rubric?

More often than not they look at us like we’re nuts... [ read more ]

It’s tough to describe most implementations of personalized learning—especially to students and parents—in a way that conveys how it works on a ...

"Unfortunately, that’s even more confusing to parents, especially since it’s loaded with terminology and acronyms that send them into a tizzy. How else could they feel when we tell them we want their student in our problem-based, mastery-driven, self-directed, 1:1, personalized, bell-less classroom? Or when we talk about ever-changing schedules and how grades are determined through students’ public exhibition of work, which is scored along a cognitive skills rubric?

More often than not they look at us like we’re nuts... [ read more ]