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How Prioritizing Standards Prioritizes What Students Already Know – and What They Need to Learn Next
How a fresh approach to standards in one district is supporting students to reach mastery no matter where they begin...
Resilience and Maturity: One Graduate Navigates Life with Skills Learned
One graduate reflects on the skills learned during her internship and outlined in district’s Portrait of a Graduate. Big takeaway?...
Topics: Higher Education
Two Years Closer to Scaling Personalized, Competency-Based Learning in North Dakota
Two years in, these four districts share milestones reached in pioneering personalized, competency-based learning – and the distance learning challenges...
Topics: Overcoming Challenges
The Future of Learning and COVID-19
Individuals from more than 20 countries joined us for a recent informal webinar exploring future tensions and uncertainties arising from...
Topics: Future of Learning
5 Ways Instructional Coaches Help Scale Personalize Learning
Having a support system makes implementing personalized learning easier. We compiled five ways instructional coaches help scale personalized learning.
Topics: Building Capacity
The Future is Everybody’s Business
KnowledgeWorks explores how imagining future possibilities empowers educators and students to create the future they want.
Topics: Future of Learning
Making Personalized Learning Possible with Peer-to-Peer Capacity Building
Jillian Kuhlmann examines educators' benefits from peer-to-peer learning and KnowledgeWorks' role as the catalyst for peer-to-peer support.
Topics: Building Capacity
Analysis and Reflections on Student Outcome Data in RSU2
KnowledgeWorks sponsored RAND Education and Labor to conduct analyses of RSU2 student outcomes over the past decade.
Home Visits Flip the Script on Parent Engagement
Learn how one North Dakota teacher started building relationships with her students with home visits before the start of the...
Topics: Community Partnerships
How Aligning Student of the Month Criteria to Your Portrait of a Graduate Increases Transparency
Educators at this North Dakota district wanted students and teachers alike to connect with their hopes for each graduate in...
Topics: Systems Change
From Dropping Out to Graduating: The Power of Seeing Students for Who They Are
Helping students learn to advocate for themselves is a critical part of teaching and learning.
The Role of Teacher Preparation Programs in Personalized Learning
When teacher preparation programs make connecting with their K-12 partners around personalized learning a priority, new teachers “hit the ground...
Topics: Building Capacity
Choice-Ready in North Dakota: State Launches Five-Year Initiative to Support Districts in Scaling Personalized Learning
Five North Dakota learning communities are working together to ensure their graduates are choice-ready.
Topics: Systems Change
Michigan District Leaders Get Personal – About Personalized Learning
Equipping district and building leaders with what they need to support their teachers in personalizing learning is at the heart...
How a Student-Led Effort in Elementary School is Elevating the Importance of Kindness
Topics: Social Emotional Learning
Educators and Students Getting Creative with How They Capture Learning in North Dakota
Technology supports this North Dakota district’s commitment to learner agency and a guaranteed and viable curriculum.
Teaching Life Skills at the North Dakota Youth Correctional Center
YCC educators provide their students the opportunity to practice emotional regulation, time management and conflict resolution – maybe for the...
A Focus on Strategies and Skills for Students – and Teachers – in North Dakota
Teachers deserve personalized learning and the opportunity to learn from peers, too.
Standards-Based Grading as Explained by Cupcakes
This teacher has a delicious approach for helping explain the difference between a 1, 2, 3 and a 4.
Topics: Assessment and Accountability
Rethinking Discipline at the North Dakota Youth Correctional Center
A personalized, reflective approach to behavior management aims to keep students in the classroom.
One Teacher Makes the Case for Personalized Learning
Nolen Peterson worried personalized learning might be a fad, and that’s why his district welcomed his voice in their implementation.
Students Deserve to Follow Their Passions – in This North Dakota District, They Can
Students at the Personalized Learning Academy don’t just explore their passions – they discover new ones.
Topics: Social Emotional Learning
What Personalized Learning Can Do – According to a Tenth Grader
With the support of her band teacher, Silver Anderson is pursuing an independent study to compose her own music.
Changing Student Outlooks on Education: Ohio High School Instills a Sense of Hope and Belonging
Everyone has a voice at Marysville TRI Academy, including those students who might’ve gone unheard in a traditional school setting.