Resources

Selected Chapter Endnotes

• What's Possible with Personalized Learning?
  Bruce Friend, Susan Patrick, Carri Schneider and Tom Vander Ark; iNACOL, February 2017
• A Vision for Personalized Learning in Massachusetts
  Dan French and Diana Lebeaux, Center for Collaborative Education, 2017
• Meeting Students Where They Are
  Antonia Rudenstine, Sydney Schaef, Dixie Bacallao; June 2017
• Mean What You Say: Defining and Integrating Personalized, Blended and Competency Education
  Allison Powell, Kathryn Kennedy, Susan Patrick; iNCAOL, October 2013

Resources

• Personalized learning: The importance of teachers in a technology-driven world
  Anne Olson, Wednesday, September 27, 2017
• The Benefits Of Blended Learning
  TeachThought Staff, August 29, 2017
• Personalized Learning Progression, Highlander Institute, 2018

Selected Chapter Endnotes

• Learning to Improve Fast and Implement Well, Greg Pilewski, January 29, 2015
• Improvement Discipline in Practice, Alicia Grunow, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, July 21, 2015

Resources by Section

Creating Vision and Scope: Opportunities to Support Student Agency

Culturally relevant pedagogy

• Excerpts from Chris Emdin’s 2017 keynote at the SXSWedu conference
• Zaretta Hammond’s book, Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students

Student interests

• DIY.org has created infrastructure to support student learning across a range of high interest topics

Student-designed curriculum

• Learning Personalized: The Evolution of the Contemporary Classroom, Allison Zmuda

Student goal setting

• Student goal-setting videos from LEAP Innovations
• Student goal-setting videos from EL Education

Student choice

• What student choice and agency actually looks like, eSchool News, provides examples of how several schools have used choice to build student agency

Socio-Emotional Learning

• Supporting Student Agency of SEL, Getting Smart, is full of clickable links and information

Authentic Audience

• ShareYourLearning.org has developed a toolkit to support public presentations of student learning

The 4 Cs: Creativity, Collaboration, Critical Thinking and Creativity

• The Partnership for 21st Century Learning has frameworks, resources and blog posts describing how to integrate of the 4C’s

Deeper Learning

• Deeper Learning Competencies from the Hewlett Foundation
• Decoding Deeper Learning in the Classroom from the Hewlett Foundation and the Education Writers Association
• Deeper Learning For All

Identifying Priority Classroom Practices

• Highlander Institute Priority Practices Tool
• Understanding and Supporting Blended Learning Teaching Practices, Education Elements
• Blended Core Teaching Rubric, The New Teacher Project
• LEAP Learning Framework, LEAP Innovations
• Blended Learning Rubric, Thrive Public Schools

Meeting Facilitation and Group Norms

• Ultimate Proxy Learning Norms established by The Center for Leadership and Educational Equity (CLEE)

Templates

• Visioning Template
• Selecting Priority Practices

Selected Chapter Endnotes

• iNACOL Blended Learning Teacher Competency Framework Allison Powell, Beth Rabbitt, and Kathryn Kennedy, iNACOL, October 2014
• Educator Competencies for Personalized, Learner-Centered Teaching Council of Chief State School Officers, August 10, 2015

Resources by Section

Recruiting Pilot Teachers

Self-Assessment for Potential Pilot Teachers

Selected Chapter Endnotes

• All That We've Learned: Five Years Working on Personalized Learning Caitrin Wright, Brian Greenberg, and Rob Schwartz, Silicon Schools Fund, August 2017

Resources by Section

Identifying Compelling Strategies

• Highlander Institute Priority Practice Tool with Strategies
• Highlander Institute & Meet Education Project: Be Education Podcasts feature Christina Corser as she discusses practical tips for implementing blended learning techniques, improving classroom culture, tackling differentiation, approaching rigor and mastery, and much more.
• University of Oklahoma K20 Learn offers a user-friendly opportunity to search 104 strategies by group size and time constraints.
• Hattie Ranking: 252 Influences And Effect Sizes Related To Student Achievement
• Note: Effect sizes larger than .40 demonstrate that an influence or practice has impact above average teacher effects (the typical teacher has a 0.4 effect on their students over a single year). In particular, effect sizes greater than .70 are considered “highly effective treatments”.
• The BetterLesson Master Teacher Project features sets of strategy videos that profile expert teachers and highlight features of high quality blended and personalized instruction.
• The Personalized Learning Toolbook by Intel includes guidance on strategies and instructional practices that promote more student-centered learning environments.
• Individualized vs Differentiated vs Personalized Learning by Barbara Bray and Kathleen McClaskey describes the instructional profiles of each type of learning and poses key questions to help design teams connect appropriate strategies to each term.

Deepening your knowledge base before selecting strategies

• The Learning Accelerator: Best Practices Resources
• NGLC: MyWays Framework
• iNACOL: Blended Learning in Practice Case Studies
• Lexington Institute: Personalized Learning Case Studies

Resources connected to Common Entry Points (Appendix F)

Station Rotation Model

• Create Small Learning Communities with the Station Rotation Model, Catlin Tucker, July 2015
• 3 Ways to Shake Up The Station Rotation Model, Catlin Tucker, May 2016
• Blended Learning: The Station Rotation Model, Susan Hitt, New Hanover County Schools. Achieve the Core, Sept 2017
• Blended (r)evolution: How 5 teachers are modifying the Station Rotation to fit students’ needs, Jenny White and Clifford Maxwell, Christensen Institute, July 2017

Project Based Learning

• Performance Assessment Resource Bank, the Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning and Equity
• Project Based Learning: Explained, the Buck Institute for Education
• PBL Resources Page, the Buck Institute for Education

Choice Boards

• Using Choice Boards to Increase Student Ownership, Advancement Courses, Jan 2016
• Design Your Own Digital Choice Board, Catlin Tucker, April 2016

Flipped Classroom

• Showing the Differences between a Traditional and a Flipped Classroom, Jonathan Thomas-Palmer, Flipping Physics
• The Teacher’s Guide To Flipped Classrooms, Edudemic

Learning Profiles

• Developing Learner Profiles, TKI Inclusive Education, 2014
• Helping All Learning: Learning Profile, EL Education
• How Learning Profiles Can Strengthen Your Teaching, John McCarthy, Edutopia, August 2014

Socio-Emotional Learning

• Outcomes Beyond Test Scores - What Is Social-Emotional Learning? Elise Cappella, Clancy Blair, and J. Lawrence Aber, NYU STEINHARDT | Education Solutions Initiative, Sept 2016
• Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning, CASEL
• Building Blocks for Learning: A Framework for Comprehensive Student Development, Turnaround for Children
• Unlocking the Door to Learning: Trauma-Informed Classrooms & Transformational Schools, Maura McInerney and Amy McKlindon, Education Law Center

Connecting Measures to Strategy Sets

Process Measures / Classroom Walkthrough Tools

• Priority Practices Tool, Highlander Institute
• Blended Learning Rubric - pg 11 , Education Elements
• Blended Learning Rubric, Thrive Public Schools

Outcome Measures

Examples of Academic Interim Assessments:

• Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA Measures of Academic Progress)
• Renaissance Learning (STAR data).

Non-traditional Outcome Measure Examples:

• Measuring Student Engagement in Upper Elementary through High School: A Description of 21 Instruments, REL Southeast, January 2011
• Measuring Student Engagement and Motivation, Presentation by Pete Bylsma,
  Jessica Werner, and Greg Lobdell, Washington Educational Research Association Conference, Dec 2013
• Moving Forward Three Tools for Implementation (Deeper Learning), New Pedagogies for Deep Learning Global Partnership, 2014

Balance Measures

Student Surveys:

• Asking Students about Teaching: Student Perception Surveys and Their Implementation, Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project, Sept 2012
• Focus Group questions

Templates

• Connecting Practices to Strategies Template
• Coaching Plan for Pilot Teachers Template
• Introductory Coaching Conversation Template
• Data Collection Template
• Using Pixar Pitches to Communicate the Pilot Initiative
• Structuring the Learning Process Example

Resources by Section

Active Data Collection and Analysis

• Protocol for Design Team Walkthroughs
• Design Team Walkthroughs: Example Evidence for each Priority Practice

Selected Chapter Endnotes

• Communications Planning for Innovation in Education: New Guide and District Profiles, Education Elements and The Learning Accelerator, March 2017

Resources by Section

Case Study: Scaling in Greeley-Evans, A District-Wide Approach

• Greeley-Evans Innovation Configuration

Selected Chapter Endnotes

• Finding the Right Tool for the Job: Improving Reading and Writing in the Classroom, Victoria McDougald, The Thomas B. Fordham Institute, September 14, 2016.
• What a Decade of Education Research Tells Us About Technology in the Hands of Underserved Students, Molly B. Zielezinski, EdSurge, May 19, 2016.
• Student-Centered Learning: Functional Requirements for Integrated Systems to Optimize Learning, Liz Glowa and Jim Goodell, iNACOL, May 2016.

Resources by Section

Buying Curriculum

Curriculum reviews, alignment and comparisons:

• The EdSurge Product Index provides a list of the latest education technology tools, reviewed by teachers in the community.
• EdReports.org offers free reviews of K-12 instructional materials with a focus on alignment to college and career-ready standards, and other indicators of high quality as recommended by educators.
• The Louisiana Department of Education has a user-friendly collection of curriculum resources and annotated reviews on their website.
• The Right Tool for the Job: Improving Reading and Writing in the Classroom is a series sponsored by the Fordham institute that provides in-depth reviews of several promising digital tools for English language arts classrooms.

Borrowing Curriculum

• EngageNY.org. As part of Race to the Top federal funding, the New York State Education Department worked with various partners to develop curriculum materials for grades Pre-K to 12 in both Mathematics and English Language Arts (ELA), and these materials are available for download from EngageNY. In 2015, the New York State Education Department added links to Social Studies Inquiries that are also available free to all users.
• OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.
  #GoOpen Initiative supports States and districts choosing to transition to the use of openly licensed educational resources to transform teaching and learning.
• Buck Institute for Education (BIE) creates, gathers, and shares high-quality Project-Based Learning instructional practices and products and provides highly effective services to teachers, schools, and districts.
• Educating for a Diverse Democracy, The Teaching Tolerance website invites educators to discover and develop world-class materials with a community of educators committed to diversity, equity and justice.
• PhET has compiled interactive simulations for science and math
• Khan Academy. Learn anything. For free. For everyone. Forever.

EdTech to Support Creation

• Playlist: Students Create a Product to Demonstrate Their Understanding

EdTech for Authentic Learning

• ImBlaze is a mobile platform that facilitates student internships by connecting them to mentors in the community.
• Community Share?
• ShareYourLearning.org offers resources and tools to support public presentations of learning.

Resources

Highlander Institute Professional Learning Playlists

• Bingo Board Example for supporting multi-modal professional learning
• Professional Development Session on Instructional Design

Getting Started with Personalized Learning: Five Shifts

• Shift 1: Moving from student as consumer to student as creator K - 5  , 6 - 12
• Shift 2: Moving from teacher directed learning to student directed learning K-5, 6 - 12
• Shift 3: Moving from completion focused to mastery focused K - 5, 6 - 12
• Shift 4: Moving from summative focused to formative focused K - 5, 6 - 12
• Shift 5: Moving from teacher goals to student goals K - 5, 6 - 12

Core Practices - Highlander Institute Playlists

• Students Have Choice Over How or What They Learn
• Teachers Use Data to Inform Instruction
• Students Create a Product to Demonstrate Their Understanding
• Students Provide Feedback on Their Learning Experiences
• Students Engage in Work Requiring Higher Order Thinking Skills
• Teachers Encourage Student Ownership of Learning
• Enhancing Student Collaboration

Additional Highlander Institute Playlists

• Identifying Coaching Pathways
• Coaching in a Blended Classroom
• Managing a Station Rotation Classroom
• Routines & Procedures in a Blended Classroom
• Collaborative Classroom Practices
• Student Goal Setting
• Playlist for Principals

Selected Chapter Endnotes

• Why a NIC? Paul LeMahieu, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, August 18, 2015.