SERVING OUR CHILDREN WELL
Focusing on the Person in Personalized Learning
Where do we Go from Here?
Fifth General Session
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
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Are these the right Design Principles?
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Are there missing pieces?
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Are there redundancies?
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Are there misplaced principles?
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Can you envision local districts and schools
using these principles within the context of their
own capacity to personalize learning for
students?
Is it appropriate to utilize these design principles
to frame policy?
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Personalization for each STUDENT
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Personalization for each TEACHER
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Personalization for each SCHOOL
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Personalization for each DISTRICT
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Next Generation Content Standards (CCSS)
Smarter Balanced Assessment Development
Growth Model
College, Career and Citizenship Readiness
Restructuring of Policy 2510
NCLB Flexibility Waiver Request
Support for Personalized Learning
Educator Effectiveness Efforts
Harvard PK-3 Taskforce
Middle
School
A
High
School
Elementary
School
Personalized Learning
B
Personalization toward what?
Know
Behave
Accomplish
PK-3
Aspirational
Programmatic
Definition
Know
Behave
Accomplish
3-6
Aspirational
Programmatic
Definition
Know
Behave
Accomplish
6-8
Aspirational
Programmatic
Definition
Know
Behave
Accomplish
8-10
Aspirational
Programmatic
Definition
Define the appropriate Goals, Expectations, Practices, and Measures of
Success for each programmatic milestone.
Appropriately and intentionally personalize the learning in the context of
these milestones.
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Know
Behave
Accomplish
8-10
Aspirational
Programmatic
Definition
10-13
Personalization based upon unique goals
and aspirations of individual students
(personal milestones)
10-13
Personal Milestones
defined in terms of
College, Career and
Citizenship Success.
Students must exit
prepared for the post
secondary learning
(marketable skills for the job
market and/or skills for success
in post secondary education)
Programmatic Alignment
PK-3
3-6
6-8
8-10
10-13
Aspirational
Programmatic
Definition
Aspirational
Programmatic
Definition
Aspirational
Programmatic
Definition
Aspirational
Programmatic
Definition
Aspirational
Programmatic
Definition
Programmatic
Milestones
Programmatic
Milestones
Programmatic
Milestones
Programmatic
Milestones
Programmatic
Milestones
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Comprehensive Ten-Year Plan
for Strategic Improvement
PK-3
3-6
6-8
8-10
10-13
Know - Curriculum Standards & Global 21 Century Skills
Behave - Personal Skills and Dispositions
Achieve – College, Career & Citizenship Readiness
Capacity Building - Policy, PD, Technology, Facilities, etc.
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Inputs
Strategies
Outputs
Outcomes
Impacts
What resources
will support
the work?
What will
we do?
What services
and products
will be
delivered?
What will be
the results?
What will be
the ultimate
impact?
WVDE Programmatic Leadership Teams
PK-3
3-6
6-8
8-10
10-13
Cross Division Work (develop, implement, support)
All Curricular and Instructional Initiatives
Capacity Building
(PD, policy, leadership, facilities, etc.)
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Bring coherence to the work at all levels
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Bring stability to the work at all levels
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Allow districts to plan for the future without fear of
changing direction
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Allow for long-term commitment of resources to build
capacity toward a known end
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Increased potential for innovation at the lowest levels
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Aspirational, student-centered policy would support
decision making at the level closest to the student
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Harness the power of the Common Core State
Standards
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Bring relevance to the new Smarter Balanced
Assessment
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Build both an Accountability and Accreditation System
with real relevance and the potential to foster school
improvement
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Deliberately and Intentionally staying the course
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Countering the perception lowering standards due to
fewer regulations and policy restrictions
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Fear of accountability where decision making lies –
with greater flexibility comes greater accountability
for results
Comprehensive Ten-Year Plan
for Strategic Improvement
PK-3
3-6
6-8
8-10
10-13
Know - Curriculum Standards & Global 21 Century Skills
Behave - Personal Skills and Dispositions
Achieve – College, Career & Citizenship Readiness
Capacity Building - Policy, PD, Technology, Facilities, etc.
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Shift from Old Paradigm of a
Schooling Progression
Middle
School
High
School
Elementary
School
Personalized Learning
Shift to a New Paradigm of the
Learning Progression
PK-3
Aspiration
al
3-6
Aspirational
Programmatic
Definition
6-8
Aspirational
Programmatic
Definition
8-10
Aspirational
Programmatic
Definition
10-12
Good Kids Doing Great Work
Knowing the full options of work there is to do
Possessing the knowledge, skills and dispositions to take
advantage of those options
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Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly - you tread on my dreams.
~ W.B. Yeats
SERVING OUR CHILDREN WELL
Focusing on the Person in Personalized Learning