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Reflections on the Youth Summit

This week the Institute is pleased to have a guest blogger. In this post Mark Bichler, a Business Education Teacher at Port Washington High School, reflects on last week’s Youth Summit, hosted by the...

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Personalized Learning – A Student’s Perspective

We are very pleased to have Gillian Locke, a senior at Kettle Moraine School Districts’ KM Global Charter School, guest blogging for us this week. Gillian is in a personalized learning environment at...

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Learning Independence Continuum

In conjunction with the release of the white paper, The Learning Independence Continuum, we’ll be posting a series of blogs on the concept of developing independent learners. This first post provides...

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Learning Continuum: Motivation

Our last post introduced readers to the idea of a learning independence continuum and the importance of strategically building each element upon the previous one. The first element in the learning...

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Learning Continuum: Engagement

We last discussed the role of motivation in the learning continuum. In much of the literature on building learner motivation, the terms motivation and engagement are used almost interchangeably. While...

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Learning Continuum: Ownership

Ownership implies that learners have a sense of control over their learning and often leads them to view learning as something that cannot be taken from them. Ownership of learning transfers...

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The End Goal

We’ve now covered four of the five elements along the learning continuum. The last element, indeed, the ultimate goal is to create independent learners. Independent learners take responsibility for...

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Releasing the Potential of Learner Voice and Choice

We know that when students feel committed to what they are learning, achievement accelerates. We also understand that when students believe the work they are doing is their work rather than made up...

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State Superintendent’s Youth Summit

At the end of November, some of us here at the Institute @ CESA #1 had the pleasure of participating and facilitating the State Superintendent’s Youth Summit: A Dialogue on Learning and Education in...

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2nd Annual Youth Summit

This week, the Institute is pleased to have a guest blogger. Jessica Singer is a member of the Institute @ CESA #1 Youth Advisory Council, a group of students formed this year to inform ongoing program...

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What to Look for in a Personalized Learning Environment – Part 2

Our last post explored six factors to look for when visiting a personalized learning environment. This week we offer six more. Learners serve as resources for learning. Counter to the traditional view...

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Youth Advisory Council Takes a Field Trip

By Carolyn Reeves Program Specialist for the Institute @ CESA #1 I am very fortunate to work with a group of young leaders from area school districts that are interested in learning about and working...

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Comment on the Youth Summit

Our annual Youth Summit is probably my favorite event of the year – seeing all those young people come together to learn about a new way to “do school” is always inspiring and never fails to give me...

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Taking a Chance: New Ways of Teaching

by Laura Vitale, Digital Media Specialist The audio clip today focuses on taking a chance with some new ways of teaching. One of the scariest things for teachers new to personalized learning is also...

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What to Expect

By Laura Vitale, Digital Media Specialist A personalized learning classroom is going to look very different than a traditional classroom. As you listen to the audio clips below, you’ll hear educators...

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I Know What I Did This Summer

By Kim Jenkins, Assistant Director The breeze is warm, some kids are walking up the path to go for a swim in the pool and I’ve landed a nice spot under a large oak tree.  Given the beautiful day my

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Typical Day

By Laura Vitale, Digital Media Specialist We’ve called this installment Typical Day, but I think what you’ll realize after listening to the audio is that there really isn’t one! That’s the beauty (and...

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New Roles

By Laura Vitale, Digital Media Specialist As you might have guessed by now, moving to a personalized environment will mean that roles and relationships between the learner and teacher will change. No...

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What Kind of Student Joins a Youth Advisory Council?

by Kim Jenkins, Assistant Director As a new facilitator of the Youth Advisory Council — I didn’t quite know what to expect. What kind of student would voluntarily give up a Friday night to come out to...

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Infographic: Student Goal Setting and Conferencing

The Institute is excited to release our new infographic on student goal setting based on two recent blog posts (here and here) by Jim Rickabaugh. The infographic also contains tips on preparing for and...

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