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Creative Furnishings and Spaces
West Belden creatively uses existing facilities and unique furnishing to ensure students have access to a variety of learning spaces when they need them.
Assessment Labs
Students take assessments and work through online work in large classrooms.
Monterey Peninsula: Brainstorming Ideas for Flexibility, Personalization, and Student Sense of Belonging
Monterey Peninsula Unified School District (MPUSD) sought to address a key problem in their district: “How might we increase flexibility and personalization to build a sense of belonging and connection within the context of our labor and policy...
Creating In-Person Opportunities for Virtual Students
Virtual schools can set up physical, in-person locations where students can work on assignments, seek help from teachers, and socially connect with each other.
Beyond Brick and Mortar Podcast: Laurel Springs School on Personalization, Flexibility, and Community-Building in Virtual Learning
In this first episode of TLA's "Beyond Brick and Mortar" podcast series, which features leaders of established virtual and hybrid learning programs from across the U.S. as they discuss what makes their programs a success – and what they had to learn...
Fixed Strategy vs. Adapt with Experience: How flexible should our district strategy be over time?
This guide unpacks the relative benefits of creating fixed versus adaptive scaling strategies and offers examples of the way systems across the county have managed this tension.
Roots Director of Operations and Innovation Provides an Overview of the Physical Space
Roots Director of Operations and Innovation, Jill Tew, shares how physical space is used differently at the school to accommodate and enable personalized learning. Transcript: Jill Tew: the space at Roots looks a little bit different from a...
Video: Making Sure the Facilities and Furniture Support Your Educational Model
In this video produced by the Christensen Institute and Silicon Schools, Michael Horn and Brian Greenberg discuss critical decisions about space that can support a blended learning model.
How do I deepen differentiation and personalization within a station rotation model?
Currently implementing stations and thinking “now what?” This guide will give you resources around how adding more flexibility of movement, timing, strategic data use, and varied groupings will allow for greater differentiation, personalization, and...