Personalized Learning
Education news, analysis, and opinion about efforts to use technology to customize education to the individual student.
- Personalized Learning What Is Personalized Learning?Here's what you need to know about the realities of one of the biggest, most controversial trends in K-12 education.Personalized Learning Opinion What New Research Can Teach Schools Looking to Put Personalized Learning Into PracticeA Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative study of personalized learning in Chicago unpacks how schools can successfully implement personalized learning, highlighting four common practices.Personalized Learning Opinion Next Gen Change: Stories From Three EducatorsThree classroom educators describe how they applied a schoolwide goal to personalize learning to their own teaching this past year.Personalized Learning Opinion Developing Wayfinders With Learning PlansTwo elementary school teachers use learning plans to help students develop wayfinding skills like goal-setting and exercising agency.Personalized Learning Opinion 3 Fundamentals of Teacher Collaboration in Personalized LearningHow a strong start, clear boundaries, and deliberate reflection are key in creating a culture of collaboration among teachers.Personalized Learning Opinion Different Paths to the Same Goal: College and Career ReadinessTwo recent studies of Teach to One: Math highlight the tension in math between grade-level-based accountability systems and approaches to instruction that enable more personalized paths to college and career readiness.Personalized Learning Opinion Building on Success: Scaling Personalized Learning Across a NetworkWhen one school in its network designed a successful personalized learning model, Distinctive Schools faced the challenge of how to scale the model across its network.Personalized Learning Opinion Three Essential Ingredients for a Student-Centered ClassroomWhen these three ingredients are present in a truly student-centered lesson, students are most likely to learn both academic content and productive habits of mind.Personalized Learning Online Summit Pathways to Personalized LearningA big-picture look at how states, districts, schools, and education companies can better serve students through personalized learning.Personalized Learning Opinion Transforming High School by Supporting Student Self-DiscoveryTwo Vista High School students describe how the process of self-discovery within Challenge-Based Learning helps them progress as learners.Personalized Learning Opinion Ed Tech and Universal Design for Learning: Because One Size Fits NoneThe UDL guidelines offer a valuable framework for educators who have embraced next-generation learning to improve teaching and learning for all people by designing at the margins.Personalized Learning Opinion Students Are People, TooTeachers may use 4 pedagogical strategies to meet the needs of students who are chronically absent, have a learning disability, or are easily bored.Personalized Learning Opinion Does Your School Support Deep, Long-Lasting Learning? Part 2: Flexible, Student-Centered LearningResearch suggests ways to design schools that are responsive to students' various differences and that ask them to take a more hands-on role in shaping their own learning.Personalized Learning Brooklyn Students Protest Use of Online Learning Platform Designed by Summit LearningStudents in New York City's Secondary School for Journalism walked out of class to protest the school's use of an online educational tool, Summit Learning.Personalized Learning Video Why You Should Attend Education Week's "Pathways to Personalized Learning" SummitIn this video, Assistant Managing Editor Kevin Bushweller shares insights about Education Week's ongoing coverage of personalized learning, and announces the Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018, "Pathways to Personalized Learning" online summit. In this online event, Education Week journalists and guests will staff online "discussion rooms" on a host of topics, including the research arguments for and against personalized learning, how self-paced learning can go awry, low-tech personalized learning strategies, principals’ views on personalized learning, how to train teachers for a radical change, and five big mistakes education companies are making in trying to serve schools’ personalized learning needs. This online summit provides you with a unique opportunity to interact directly with Education Week writers and editors and the personalized learning experts who helped shape this coverage. You will also be able to watch a livestreamed series of interviews with the writers and editors after they’ve “broken down” the topics for you.