Personalized Learning

The Texas State Board of Education has approved ThinkCERCA’s core curriculum for English language arts and reading for grades 6-8. It is designed to support Texas districts and schools in meeting 100 percent of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills and English Language Proficiency Standards. ThinkCERCA, a recognized industry leader in student reading and writing […]

Personalized pacing has great value, but adapting it for the classroom brings up the age-old tension in education—we have a certain amount of work to do, and only a certain amount of time in which to do it. Personalized pacing also runs the risk of reducing education to a checklist of items to complete.

Keeping Students Safe Every Day: How to Prepare for and Respond to School Violence, Natural Disasters, and Other Hazards ASCD This guide provides insight on creating emergency operations plans that follow government guidelines and best practices, such as ways to decentralize authority and responsibility during a crisis. Keeping Students Safe Every Day teaches school leadership […]

Digital reading platforms can enable more personalized learning by providing engaging, interactive and customizable digital content to both students and educators in all subject areas, as well as supplemental curriculum materials, professional development resources, ELL and special education titles, and more. In this web seminar, presenters discussed ways to use digital reading platforms effectively. Highlights […]

Better Together: How to Leverage School Networks for Smarter Personalized and Project-Based Learning Jossey-Bass This book profiles more than a dozen formal and informal school networks wherein district leaders, principals and teachers have worked together to implement personalized and project-based learning. Educators can find out about transforming schools and navigating these new instructional dynamics with […]

Why is personalized learning so important? Marcy: It leverages a student’s interests, their strengths, then tailors instruction to their specific needs and goals. Rich: It gets into predictive analytics. Traditionally the analytics type of reporting is a look at what has been happening. Personalized learning is looking at what is going to happen. How can IT officials […]