Personalized Learning: Preparing High School Students to Create their Futures

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When it comes to learning, is smaller really better There is a growing body of evidence to support the notion that smaller, more personalized schools are better for both students and teachers. Bringing together the combined knowledge and experience of more than two dozen teachers, administrators, and researchers, this book provides a roadmap for educators embarking on the journey to create a more personalized environment for high school students.

Features include:
Highlights of current initiatives aimed at personalizing learning for high school students.
Description of Personal Learning Plans that tie the learning to the talents and aspirations of the student.
Exploration of classroom teaching that allows individuals to gain knowledge while pursuing their own hopes.
Description of high school designs that engage students in democratic processes and systemic changes that must accompany and support personalized learning for all students.

Written by practitioners with practical interest in moving high schools toward personalization, this book will excite others to initiate reforms that enable ALL young adult learners to meet common standards while designing and pursuing a unique pathway toward adult roles. That's what personal learning and this book are all about.

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For those who seek exemplars and exposition of working, sustainable, systemic innovations, this book is an essential reference for personalization of learning in an organizational setting. For those who seek hope in a sometimes dim view of the future of public education, this book is a must read from cover to cover...If our vision of public education is to liberate the genius and goodness of children and their teachers, Personal Learning moves the work one giant step forward. -- Gregg Sinner, preceptor, Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School
I think this is an important book on a very important subject...I really enjoyed reading it, was often inspired, and usually completed a chapter having learned something important. -- Ron Wolk, Founding Editor of Education Week and Teacher Magazine, and former Vice President of Brown University
For those attempting personalized learning for the first time, or for those who want to gain an understanding of what it means, this is an acceptable primer. The book can be used as designedby teachers, administrators, researchers, and/or policymakerswho are beginning the journey toward personalized learning. * Anthropology & Education Quarterly *
By documenting the personalization process and highlighting real life examples that have been implemented in schools, the authors give voice to students, teachers, parents, and administrators who have begun the journey of changing American education...This thought-provoking book provides examples combined with knowledge and experience that can be used as a guide as teachers and administrators work toward helping ...Students Create their Futures. -- Gerry Tirozzi, NASSP
By documenting the personalization process and highlighting real life examples that have been implemented in schools, the authors give voice to students, teachers, parents, and administrators who have begun the journey of changing American education...This thought-provoking book provides examples combined with knowledge and experience that can be used as a guide as teachers and administrators work toward helping ...Students Create their Futures. -- Gerry Tirozzi, NASSP

Author Bio

Joseph DiMartino is the director of the Student Centered Learning Program at the Education Alliance at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
John Clarke is professor emeritus, University of Vermont in Montpelier.
Denise Wolk is program assistant, Student Centered Learning with the Education Alliance at Brown University.