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The Best of WHY
These slides provide options for how to engage participants in 'the why' of personalized learning, particularly during professional learning.
Aligning on the “Why” through “The End of Average”
Aligning on the “why” of a model is crucial. Dallas ISD utilizes a book study of “The End of Average” to align on the rationale for a personalized model and apply its concepts to education and their instructional model.
Knowing the “Why": How do leaders communicate with new teachers around the purpose and vision of their innovative models?
Clearly communicating the “why” behind a school’s innovative model – not just the model itself – is an essential strategy for building new teachers’ abilities to understand and implement. This guide will explore various ways schools and districts...
Chicago Public Schools’ “The Best of ‘WHY’’
Chicago Public Schools put together a slide deck with a variety of resources that help address the question: “why personalized learning?” Many schools and districts have different answers to this question, and this slide deck provides a look into a...
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...
The "Why" and "How" of Mastery-Based Progression
As more and more educators across the country are moving towards blended learning, they are struggling with a very challenging question: how exactly do I make mastery-based progression happen in my classroom?
Roots Director of Operations and Innovation Discusses the "Why" and the "How" of Tech Tool Development
Roots Director of Operations and Innovation, Jill Tew, shares the team's philosophy for understanding technology needs, doing diligence on existing products, and developing tools to fill gaps. Transcript: Jill Tew: Whole process, we were thinking...
Report: Where, Why, How: Deepening Analysis of the U.S. K-12 Virtual Learning Landscape
This report from The Learning Accelerator (TLA), “Where, Why, How: Deepening Analysis of the U.S. K-12 Virtual Learning Landscape,” explores the current state of virtual and hybrid learning models across the United States and their viability as a...
Executive Summary: Where, Why, How - Deepening Analysis of the U.S. K-12 Virtual Learning Landscape
This is the Executive summary for a report from The Learning Accelerator (TLA), “Where, Why, How: Deepening Analysis of the U.S. K-12 Virtual Learning Landscape,” which explores the current state of virtual and hybrid learning models across the...
Dallas ISD’s "End of Average" Facilitation Guide
Dallas ISD uses this facilitation guide to study the book, “The End of Average,” and make connections to build an understanding of why personalized learning is important.
When the U.S. Air Force Discovered the Flaw of Averages
Dallas ISD discusses this article to make parallels to the flaw of averages for students and learning.