Condensed PLE Navigator:
Group
Release
1. Move from whole group
instruction to flexible, small
group instruction
2. Move from flexible, small
group instruction to student
directed learning
3. Use whole group instruction
to set the scene for learning
4. Adjust flexible groups as
students’ instructional
needs change
1. Gradually release independence
to students who demonstrate the
ability to self-manage their
learning and behavior
2. Incorporate interdependent and
independent learning
3. Use rubrics to direct student
work, deliver meaningful
feedback, and enable selfassessment
Assess
1. Inventory students’ learning
styles, interests, personalities,
and cultural backgrounds
2. Help students develop learner
profiles
3. Assess for standards mastery
4. Pre-assess for each unit or for
the year
5. Formatively assess frequently
6. Summatively assess when
students are ready
7. Help students use assessment
data to measure their mastery
Plan
now the learner
Blend
Engage
1. Differentiate assignments for rigor,
learning styles, and interests
2. Recognize the effort of all students
3. Give students guided choice in how
they learn and demonstrate
mastery
4. Tailor instruction, motivation and
feedback to meet students’ personal
and academic needs and interests
5. Adjust instruction in response to
formative assessment
6. Create a community of diverse
learners through student-led sharing,
presentations, and discussions
uide With Standards
lex the Environment
Updated 4/16/2014
Culture
1. Use rules, procedures,
routines, and expectations
to establish an efficient
classroom, nurture
independent learning, shift
responsibility to students for
managing themselves and
the physical classroom
space
2. Allow students an
opportunity to resolve issues
before I intervene
Manage
Implement
Target
1. Plan engaging lessons that
target the standards students
need to master
2. Help students develop,
measure, and adjust learning
goals
3. Share a learning map to help
students understand how the
standards guide learning
and to track their mastery
Instructional Strands & Practices

Integrate technology into
learning and communication
where:
1. it is appropriate
2. it is more efficient,
3. it enriches learning or
communication, or
4. it enables things that
were not previously
possible
Environment
1. Be flexible with physical space
to enable a variety of lessons,
to allow multiple learning
activities to occur
simultaneously, and to minimize
learner dependence on me
2. Create a digital space in which
resources are clearly organized
around standards to enable
self-pacing, self-assessment,
and on-demand access to
curricular resources