Here We Go…Year 3 & In the Know!?

The Cultivation of Personalized & Blended Learning

What we know, as we continue to grow:

1.    All school players must be onboard, they’re the soil

2.    Infrastructure, the roots

3.    Devices, the stem

4.    Digital Content, the water

5.    Teacher planning and facilitation, the sun

6.    Student motivation and individualized learning paths, the oxygen

*Important instruction:   

The blended learning lead must wear pruning gloves, for the garden requires constant and consistent tending amidst the multiple thorns that persistently exist.

What we have:

·      A collective faculty belief that individualizing learning paths, for attainment of student learning potential, is optimum.

·      Teaching practices that weigh heavier on the side of teacher-driven instruction, rather than on student-centered/data-driven learning.

·      Continual time challenges thwarting teacher/student checks and balances of individualized learning paths and fundamental collaborative communication concerning the care and maintenance of blended/personalized learning paths.

·      Deficient devices

·      Differentiated digital content meeting the needs for remediation and acceleration.

·      New award winning digital content with limited upfront time to master implementation and utilization. 

What we still want:

·      All hands and minds cultivating the soil and committing to the growth of personalized & blended learning.

·      A technological infrastructure that remains firmly rooted.

·      Devices that withstand the wind of change and the frequent use, and possible abuse, of users.

·      Digital content that flows into young minds, and seamlessly elevates skill levels, while providing teachers with clear-cut and easily accessible data with which to target direct instruction.

·      Teachers who plan precisely, according to the individual learning paths of each of their students.

·      Students, who,  develop the tools with which to understand themselves as scholars, are empowered through development of their learning paths and are intrinsically rewarded for navigating and persevering through the thickets of essential skills.

·      Collective time to plan for the future, to understand the present and to reflect on the machinations of the past.