Personalized Learning: Preparing High School Students to Create Their Futures

Table of Contents:
Personal learning plans: one student at a time - using personalized learning plans to engage young adults; assessing to engage - developing personal profiles for each student; using personalized learning plans to initiate school-wide renewal; learning is personal, John Clarke. Personalized high school teaching: the path to personalized learning - a teacher's struggle with change; democracy and equity in the classroom - a team design; putting service at the heart of learning; community-based learning - connecting students to adult roles; preparing new teachers for personal learning. Designing schools that engage each student: making learning personal - educational practices that work; designing a personalized high school experience; putting student performance data at the center of school reform; using "Breaking Ranks" to engage a school community in coooperative reform. Adapting the systems that shape high school learning: high school capacities for systemic change; organizing a statewide high school personalization project; focused thinking - aiming school accreditation toward improved learning; growing high school reform - change as organic adaptation. Conclusion: gathering momentum for high school personalization.

About the Author :
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.

Review :
"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 designed-by teachers, administrators, researchers, and/or policymakers-who 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