A real-world action plan for educators to create personalized learning experiences Learning Personalized: The Evolution of the Contemporary Classroom provides teachers, administrators, and educational leaders with a clear and practical guide to personalized learning. Written by respected teachers and leading educational consultants Allison Zmuda, Greg Curtis, and Diane Ullman, this comprehensive resource explores what personalized learning looks like, how it changes the roles and responsibilities of every stakeholder, and why it inspires innovation. The authors explain that, in order to create highly effective personalized learning experiences, a new instructional design is required that is based loosely on the traditional model of apprenticeship: learning by doing. Learning Personalized challenges educators to rethink the fundamental principles of schooling that honors students' natural willingness to play, problem solve, fail, re-imagine, and share. This groundbreaking resource: <ul>
<li>Explores the elements of personalized learning and offers a framework to achieve it</li> <li>Provides a roadmap for enrolling relevant stakeholders to create a personalized learning vision and reimagine new roles and responsibilities</li> <li>Addresses needs and provides guidance specific to the job descriptions of various types of educators, administrators, and other staff</li> </ul>
This invaluable educational resource explores a simple framework for personalized learning: co-creation, feedback, sharing, and learning that is as powerful for a teacher to re-examine classroom practice as it is for a curriculum director to reexamine the structure of courses.

Learning Personalized: The Evolution of the Contemporary Classroom

Education & Teaching

Zmuda, Allison

Curtis, Greg

Ullman, Diane

Schools & Teaching

Jossey-Bass

Yorik of Ender's Fall. A Paladin of the Order of the Lady, and a man at risk of losing everything. His entire family has been murdered by a dark wizard, and there has been no justice for them. Instead the wizard Mayfall has fled, fleeing the hangman's noose and his brothers in the Order have been unable to capture him. So Yorik has broken his vows, escaped the chapter, and set off after Mayfall on a mission of vengeance. A mission that will at the least end his life as a paladin of the Order, and may end his life completely as he breaks his vows to the Lady. But he will not be stopped. What he doesn't know is that if he should succeed in his mission of vengeance he will begin a chain of violence and death that could well destroy the world. And then he ran into the elves.

The Lady's Man

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Bring focus to your mission for modern learning. Whether you're modifying a department, school, or district, the authors offer a systemic framework, proven processes, and practical strategies your team can use to achieve your school vision. Explore the building blocks for creating a curriculum that supports modern learning, uncover an assessment system that successfully captures evidence of 21st century skills, and learn how to align instruction with modern learning principles.
Benefits
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<li>Consider what mission statements should reflect and what effective mission statements look like.</li> <li>Apply a backward design and how it can align instruction with the principles of modern learning. </li> <li>Learn about the history of curriculum mapping, and explore each element of curriculum blueprints. </li> <li>Examine the principles and goals of effective assessment, and then explore a framework for assessments that can enhance learning as well as measure it. </li> <li>Review instructional procedures for personalizing learning and developing independent learners. </li> <li>Explore task templates and sample maps and rubrics for encouraging and interpreting modern learning. </li>
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Contents Introduction Chapter 1: The Power of Visioning Chapter 2: From Vision to Mission Chapter 3: From Mission to Action Chapter 4: Curriculum for Modern Learning Chapter 5: An Assessment System for Modern Learning Chapter 6: Instruction for Modern Learning Chapter 7: A Reporting System for Modern Learning Appendix A: Sources for Futures-Oriented Thinking Tools and Processes Appendix B: Sources to Develop Performance Indicators for the 4Cs Appendix C: Sample Performance Indicators for Modern Learning Appendix D: Examples of Assessment Principles References and Resources

Leading Modern Learning: A Blueprint for Vision-driven Schools

McTighe, Jay

Solution Tree

Independence Day (c) 2018 Greg Curtis, Kim Calder, Ariel Evans Insert Blanc Press
"An asteroid, volcano, tsunami or alien army draws near and the camera cuts away to pan across groups of people looking towards catastrophe. Intermittently montaged amidst the progressing apocalypse, each clip lasts for a few seconds. All peoples in the world--that is the movies' extras--look up and expect to die; this is all the movie demands its audience to know. These extras work partly like an index finger: they direct us to look at something. They proceed to tell us how to look [unblinkingly] and how to feel [scared, adrenaline-charged]. 
Greg Curtis pulled stills from such fifteen-or-so-year-old disaster movies. His/this book's photographs slice still images out of these moving films, to focus on these extras, spectators-of-their-own-deaths. The camera rested on their faces for less than a second in the movies, but Greg's still slices allow more sustained looks. Main characters embrace each other and their deaths (heroically), but extras run away from ground zero or stare upwards. Extras gaze at the cataclysm with their bodies angled upwards, like your own body when you watch a movie screen. As you look at these extras in the movies, your body echoes theirs in pose. Also you are grouped like them, each of you one of many other bodies." --Ariel Evans

Independence Day

Arts & Photography

Evans, Ariel

Calder, Kim

Photography & Video

Insert Blanc Press

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