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A group of philanthropies and school and technology advocacy groups, with contributions from educators, compiled a four-part "working definition" of the attributes of personalized learning. They also identified critical questions for K-12 officials to consider in implementing personalized learning.

Related Story: What Is 'Personalized Learning'? Educators Seek Clarity

Ongoing Assessment
In what ways and how frequently should we assess each student's level of mastery within the dimensions that we believe are essential for his/her success?

Operational Alignment
How might we deliver all of the learning experiences that our students need, with the resources we have available? What flexibility is in the design to enable us to respond and adapt to changing student needs?

Personalized Learning Plans
How can we ensure that each student has a learning plan that takes into account his/her strengths, changing needs, motivations, and goals?

Strengths & Needs
How do we capture each student's current level of mastery within each of the dimensions that we believe are essential for his/her success (e.g. academic standards, skills)? How can we highlight students' academic gaps to draw attention to their individual needs?

Individual Advancement
Can individual students pursue new learning experiences as soon as they have mastered the prerequisite content? How can students attain course credit based on mastery?

Staffing & Roles
In what ways might we structure teacher and other educator roles to support our instructional vision? What flexibility is needed to enable our staff to respond and adapt to changing student needs?

Varied Learning Experiences (Modalities)
What types of experiences (e.g. complex tasks, experiential learning) do students need to achieve their goals? What are the ideal methods for delivering (e.g. small group instruction, one-on-one tutoring, online learning) these experiences?

Motivations
How might we support each student in understanding and articulating his/her interests and aspirations?

Time Allocation
In what ways might we maximize the time each student spends pursuing his/her goals? How might our student and staff schedules respond and adapt to changing student needs?

Student Ownership
In what ways might we enable students to develop and manage their own learning paths?

Information & Feedback
In what ways and how frequently might we provide timely, actionable information and feedback to students, teachers, and families?

Space Utilization
How can the design of the physical space support our instructional vision? Can we use spaces beyond our walls, and if so, how?

Goals
How might we support each student in setting personalized goals within each dimension that we believe is essential for his/her success? In what ways and how frequently might we ask students to reflect on their progress and adjust their goals accordingly?

Grouping & Connections
How should we group students to enable the varied learning experiences we hope to offer and modify to their changing needs? In what ways might we facilitate personal connections among students, and between students and adults?

Sources: Developed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Afton Partners, the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, CEE Trust, the Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, Charter School Growth Fund, EDUCAUSE, iNACOL, the Learning Accelerator, the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Silicon Schools, and educators
Design & Visualization: Stacey Decker

Coverage of personalized learning and systems leadership in Education Week and its special reports is supported in part by the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation. Education Week retains sole editorial control over the content of this coverage.

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Personalized Learning: A Working Definition

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A group of philanthropies and school and technology advocacy groups, with contributions from educators, compiled a four-part "working definition" of the attributes of personalized learning. They also identified critical questions for K-12 officials to consider in implementing personalized learning. Related Story: What Is 'Personalized Learning'?

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"Many children struggle in schools... because the way they are being taught

is in the way that is incompatible with the way they learn." Peter Senge

Universal Design for Learning® (UDL) is the lens to guide the design of Personalized Learning Environments. UDL is based on neuroscience and how we learn. There are some misperceptions about UDL. You can determine each learner's needs by using the principles of UDL to understand their strengths, challenges, aptitudes, interests, talents and aspirations. UDL has often been connected to special education, but it is a framework that applies to ALL learners who have variability in their learning. UDL helps teachers understand who all the learners are in their classroom.

When the learner understands how to use the UDL principles to understand how they learn best, they own and drive their learning. These three UDL principles help teachers know how learners:

Provide Multiple Means of Representation

Provide Multiple Means of Action and Expression

Provide Multiple Means of Engagement

UDL 2.0 Guidelines can assist anyone who plans lessons/units of study or develops curricula (goals, methods, materials, and assessments) to reduce barriers, as well as optimize levels of challenge and support, to meet the needs of all learners from the start. They can also help educators identify the barriers found in existing curricula. You can use the UDL Guidelines to help you determine your learners strengths, interests, and challenges and how they:

prefer or need to access and process information.

prefer to express what they know.

like to engage with the content.

When learners know how they prefer or need to access information, engage with the content, and express what they know and understand, then they take responsibility for their learning.

Access, Engage, Express TM is a trademark of Personalize Learning, LLC 2013.

Diagram by Barbara Bray and Kathleen McClaskey are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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"Many children struggle in schools... because the way they are being taught is in the way that is incompatible with the way they learn." Peter Senge Universal Design for Learning® (UDL) is the lens to guide the design of Personalized Learning Environments. UDL is based on neuroscience and how we learn.

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Through regular employment of UDL strategies, students should gain a deeper understanding of content knowledge and critical thinking skills which should serve them well on a standardized test. Even without constant practice with,  e.g., multiple choice exams, students should gain skills which help them navigate them successfully.

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This feature is part of a series focused exclusively on personalized learning. To view other posts in the series, check out the spotlight page.
Personalized learning has become one of the most talked-about strategies in education today. Public, private and charter schools across the country are experimenting with new approaches to personalized learning and figuring out how best to tailor instruction to the needs and desires of individual students.

Technology has made personalized learning both more approachable and more challenging, forcing schools to draw a clear line about where to separate good pedagogy from tools that facilitate it.

Using insights from prior reporting and interviews with practitioners and researchers in the field, we have compiled a list of top trends in the personalized learning space. In no particular order of importance, you'll find this list below.

As a bonus, we also included three things that are on the horizon in personalized learning. Educators and ed tech providers alike should have these things on their radar as they are sure to take a more central role in personalized learning in the years to come.

1. Personalized learning platforms

These learning management systems aim to unify online curriculum and content with instructional and administrative work. They are designed to make personalizing instruction simple for teachers. There are a number of PLPs on the market and some school systems have done the work of building their own to better meet local needs.

California-based charter school network Summit Public Schools has made its personalized learning platform (developed in partnership with Facebook) available for free to schools that join Summit Basecamp. They must also go through an intensive week of training on the platform and the Summit approach to personalized learning. More than 130 schools now participate in the fast-growing Basecamp community.

2. Alternative classroom design

As teachers develop personalized learning activities for students, it has become very clear that the traditional classroom, with its neat rows of desks and chairs and a teacher at the front, doesn't work anymore. Schools are redesigning classrooms to have different kinds of seats so students can choose whether to be sitting, standing, balancing on balls, lounging or even sprawled out on the floor as they work.

Schools are also finding ways to let more natural light into classrooms and teachers are organizing their rooms into stations so students can cycle through areas for small-group instruction, solo online work and one-on-one time with teachers. All of this contributes to respecting students as individuals and supporting them as they move at their own pace.

3. Redefining the teacher role

Traditional instruction has been marked by a teacher lecturing students who passively receive the content. In the personalized learning world, schools are turning that teacher role on its head, transitioning educators from being the providers of all knowledge to the facilitators of learning.

This is a more complicated role for teachers, who have to learn new classroom management strategies and relinquish control of instruction. It also takes more work from students, who have to be engaged participants in every lesson. In many schools, the transition to personalized learning is a complicated one for all involved.

4. Competency-based education

With personalized learning comes a focus on helping each student progress through a given curriculum at his or her own pace. At its best, personalized learning can shift the measure of academic progress from time spent in a classroom to competencies mastered.

New Hampshire schools have been particularly free to explore this potential because high schools are no longer bound to the Carnegie unit in assigning credit. Whether a student masters material in 120 instructional periods or half as many, he or she can get credit for that progress, based on state regulations. Still, more than 10 years after the policy change, many schools remain committed to time-based systems, reflecting the challenge inherent in implementing such a change.

5. Project-based learning

Teachers have found project-based learning to be an important element of personalized learning approaches. With well-designed projects, students can get the freedom to explore topics they find most interesting. Personalized learning is not simply progress at a student's individual pace, but also content tailored to a student's personal interests.

Schools have seen even the most detached students become engaged through compelling projects, watching disciplinary infractions plummet and academic outcomes soar. Parents find their children like school for the first time. And students get the chance to follow their own curiosities to new academic heights.

6. Universal Design for Learning

The principles of Universal Design for Learning date back to the 1990s, but they have a new relevance in personalized learning frameworks. Diversity in U.S. classrooms is only increasing, and teachers often struggle to meet the needs of all learners. By integrating UDL principles into curriculum planning from the beginning, teachers can challenge and engage all students.

Just like ramps help make building entrances accessible for people in wheelchairs, parents pushing strollers, and others, UDL can make curriculum accessible for students with different learning styles, needs and preferences. The benefits of this approach are important even beyond inclusion for students with diagnosed learning disabilities. UDL benefits everyone in a classroom.

7. Personalized learning plans

Some schools formalize personalized learning by creating individual plans for every student. These plans are created collaboratively by students, parents and teachers as well as other support personnel, and they are updated throughout the year as living documents that grow and change as students do.

Personalized learning plans outline student goals spanning personal, academic and career realms. They help structure academic content so student learning can be directly tied to achieving those goals. Often, schools develop these plans through student-led conferences, putting students as young as elementary school in the driver's seat of their own educations.

What's on the horizon?

Personalized learning has seen a renaissance because of new educational technologies that make it easier for teachers to assess student progress on a day-to-day basis and differentiate instruction based on that data. Still, the space is changing all the time.

1. One way personalized learning could become more effective is through data-sharing. Analytics-based assessments of what online modules are most effective for what types of students can help teachers and schools structure their own curricula to use the best materials. Open educational resources and marketplaces for teacher-created content are blossoming - but without data-based assessments of what works, progress will be tempered.

2. School and district administrators continue to complain that the technology systems available to support personalized learning are limited. There are strong learning management systems that can't be integrated with student information systems and parent communication systems or online learning systems. In the years to come, ed tech companies will work to improve this interoperability or create all-in-one systems.

3. At the higher-education level, competency-based education has already led to a raft of alternative credentialing options that let students display their academic progress down to individual skill attainment. At the K-12 level, this type of system could help motivate students as they work toward their own diplomas and give them ready-made examples of accomplishments to highlight on college transcripts.

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These 7 trends are shaping personalized learning

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This feature is part of a series focused exclusively on personalized learning. To view other posts in the series, check out the spotlight page. Personalized learning has become one of the most talked-about strategies in education today.

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MA DESE Educator Effectiveness Guidebook for Inclusive Practices

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MA DESE Educator Effectiveness Guidebook for Inclusive Practices

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http://www.doe.mass.edu/edeval/guidebook/Guidebook.pdf

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Top 5 UDL Tips for Supporting Expert Learning

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Top 5 UDL Tips for Supporting Expert Learning