Personalized Learning In Action

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Personalized learning in action

A view from 2 districts

By Virgel Hammonds and Robin Kanaan

August 2019

Vol. 40 No. 4

Transforming a learning community from a traditional system to a personalized environment that serves every learner isn’t easy. It requires a strong vision for teaching and learning driving every decision, from how a district budgets to how teachers co-create classroom rules with their students. Aligning resources and activities to that vision is a necessity, as is gathering data to inform the work and gauge impact. But most challenging is rethinking what teaching and learning can be. That happens through supporting teachers in taking risks, using learner-centered practices and building them up so that once they’ve seen the changes in their classrooms and their schools, no one can imagine going back. If we approach the work with the belief that students should own their learning, it

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Authors

Virgel Hammonds and Robin Kanaan

Virgel Hammonds (hammondsv@knowledgeworks.org) is chief learning officer and Robin Kanaan (kanaanr@knowledgeworks.org) is director of teaching and learning at KnowledgeWorks.

References

Williams, M., Moyer, J., & Jenkins, S. (2014). District conditions for scale: A practical guide to scaling personalized learning. Available at knowledgeworks.org/resources/district-conditions-scale-personalized-learning.

Virgel Hammonds

Chief Learning Officer at KnowledgeWorks | + posts

In his role at Knowledgeworks, Virgel Hammonds partners with national policymakers and local learning communities throughout the U.S. to redesign learning structures to become more learner-centered and proficiency-based.