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How can professional development support creating and implementing Open Educational Resources?
This guide provides an overview of implementing effective personalized professional development that supports curating and creating high-quality, rigorous OER curriculum, alongside concrete resources around competencies for educators.
Education Elements Personalized Learning Guide
Explore this free comprehensive personalized learning guide for educators, administrators, and parents from Education Elements. These resources will help you discover: What personalized learning is and why it is importantHow to implement...
How to Introduce “the Why” by Distinctive Schools
Even before moving to moving to blended and personalized learning, CICS West Belden was a high-performing elementary school in Chicago. However, in staffwide conversations, the team realized they needed to keep pushing to help students develop all...
Dallas ISD Personalized Learning Offerings – Calendar at-a-Glance
Dallas ISD designs a variety of ongoing opportunities for educators and schools to access support in implementation throughout the year. This calendar at-a-glance gives an overview of opportunities throughout the year, including professional...
Chicago Public Schools’ Sullivan School Blueprint
As schools make the shift to personalized learning, Chicago Public Schools works with school leaders to design a school blueprint – a comprehensive document laying out the vision, mission, background, strategy, and implementation plan for achieving...
Knowing the School: How do leaders prepare new teachers to be successful within their school models?
When welcoming new teachers (whether new to the school or to teaching), it is important that you clearly communicate the nuts and bolts that make your innovative school possible. This includes specifics about your model and approach, the supports...
Leadership That Moves You Forward: Innovation, Vision, and Planning
To help understand how district and building-level administrators can successfully manage the change process when leading personalized learning initiatives, the Institute for Teaching and Leading (i4tl) conducted research looking at which actions by...
Leadership that Moves You Forward, Part III: Diving Deeper on Creating Culture for Change
This Insight, based off of research conducted by the Institute for Teaching and Leading, explores the actions of school and district leadership in terms of their impact on empowerment, self-efficacy, mindset, and motivation of the learning...
Bilingual Binders
Bilingual binders allow students who are learning English (EL) the ability to monitor and document their progress in a language that both feels comfortable and enables them to engage most fully.
Leveraging Language: How can students who are learning English use their home language in a personalized classroom?
Are you interested in learning how to better support your students who are learning English (“ELs”) by offering opportunities to use their home language in your general education classroom? If so, this guide will map out specific ways to engage your...