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Personalized

Learning
Toolkit
Resources, Bright Spots & Tools
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In this toolkit, you’ll find a variety of strategies to


personalize learning. For each strategy there are
examples, resources and tools to help you get started.

How to Personalize Learning


Click on one of the ways to personalize learning below to
find specific strategies:

Develop
Customize Amplify
learner
the learner
meta-
experience voice
cognition

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What Strategies Might You Leverage


to Personalize Learning?
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Index of Personalized Learning Strategies


Below are a list of the personalized learning strategies listed in this toolkit. Click on the
strategy to find the page with a description, examples and resources.

Customize Use assessment Assess Formatively


FOR and AS Use Data Trackers
the Learning Co-Create Learner Portraits & learning Plans
learning
Experience Group Students

Ensure flexibility in Create Student Choice Boards


learning process, Plan for Flexible Pacing
product, or pace

Create responsive Examine your Implicit Bias & Take Action


learning Get to Know your Learners
experiences Audit your Curriculum & Practices
Plan to Reach ALL Learners

Leverage Engage Learners Digitally


technology Assess Digitally
Gather Student Voice Digitally

Shift the Designate Learner Experts


decision-making Design the Environment with Learners
dynamic Co-Construct Curriculum
Involve Learners in Planning Assessments

Develop Empower learners Define Learner Jobs


Create Accessible Environments for Agency
learners' Offer Flexible Seating Options
meta- Teach Prioritization Skills
cognition,
self- Highlight the Model Using Think Alouds
process of thinking Document Thinking
regulation,
and
perseverance Encourage self- Provide Self-Regulation Support & Intervention
regulation Set Goals with Learners
Support Learner Reflection
Develop Self-Assessment Skills

Amplify Engage learners as Leverage Design Thinking


problem-solvers Establish Classroom Rights
student voice Host Student-Led Conferences

Solicit feedback Give Student Surveys


Conduct Empathy Interviews

Promote equity of Use Protocols for Discussion


voice
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Use assessment FOR and


AS learning
I create opportunities to document and
track learning that inform learner’s
readiness, strengths, needs, and interests
and I involve students in the process.

Ensure flexibility in learning


process, product, or pace
I scaffold, customize whenever possible, and
provide adequate interventions to
appropriately stretch each learner.
Customize
the
experience Shift the decision-making
dynamic
During learning, I enable students to choose
and co-design curricula. After learning, I
co-construct and offer choice of how to
demonstrate proficiency.
Competencies
Create responsive learning
Click on a
experiences
competency of I recognize and integrate knowledge of individual
learners, diverse cultures, and the community
interest to find context in developing materials and pedagogy to
specific strategies. ensure inclusive learning environments that
enable each learner to meet rigorous standards.

Leverage Technology
I use technology to lessen the burden of
tracking student progress, find materials,
engage learners in different ways, and
offer academic supports.
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Use assessment FOR


and AS learning
Use assessment FOR and AS learning 6
I create opportunities to document and track learning that inform learner’s readiness, strengths,
needs, and interests and I involve students in the process.

Assess Formatively
Throughout the learning process provide checks for understandings. This can be
very informal through digital games such as Kahoot or exit tickets. It can also be
a more formal quiz or draft of an essay before the summative assessment.
Ensure that the formative assessments are given with time for you and students
to do something with the information that the assessments give.

Bright Spot Examples

Resources
📖 Formative assessment strategies

📖 Moving Beyond Formative Assessment

Checking for understanding-Things you can try tomorrow


Use assessment FOR and AS learning 7
I create opportunities to document and track learning that inform learner’s readiness, strengths,
needs, and interests and I involve students in the process.

Use Data Trackers


When students begin to track their own progress, assessment for learning
(formative assessment) quickly becomes assessment as learning. Learners
figure out where they are in their learning and how they learn best, which is
powerful. Ideally students track their proficiency of specific skills, standards, or
competencies - this can be done on paper or digitally.

Be sure to create time and space for learners to both track and reflect on their
learning.

Bright Spot Examples

Resources
📖 Make progress visible through student data-tracking

📖 Student Data Self Tracker

📖 Tracking student data

📺 Lindsay Unified’s student data trackers in action


Use assessment FOR and AS learning 8
I create opportunities to document and track learning that inform learner’s readiness, strengths,
needs, and interests and I involve students in the process.

Co-Create Learner Portraits & Learning


Plans
Learners take stock of who they are - their strengths, interests, goals, & needs -
and reflect on how, when, and where they learn best in a learner portrait. They can
also create a visual to represent themselves. Learner inventories give learners a
chance to reflect on who they are and how they learn best. In a learning plan, the
student and teacher come together to think through given who they are how they
will learn best and what strategies they can leverage.

Bright Spot Examples

Resources
🧰 Individualized Learning Plan Template with Learner Profile

📖 The importance of knowing your students

📖 10 Ways to Spot Student Strengths


Use assessment FOR and AS learning 9
I create opportunities to document and track learning that inform learner’s readiness, strengths,
needs, and interests and I involve students in the process.

Group students
Using formative assessment data you can group students based on
performance to personalize instruction. It is important to continue to reevaluate
these groups and move students around based on continuous formative
assessment. You can also group students based on interest instead of
performance on formative assessments. For example, students could select a
text that they want to read and group members could all be performing at
different levels of reading comprehension.

Bright Spot Examples

Resources
📖 Small-group instruction

🖥 Dynamically Regroup based on Formative Data

📺 Benefits of Heterogenous Groupings


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Ensure flexibility in learning


process, product, or pace
Ensure flexibility in learning process, product, or pace 11
I scaffold, customize whenever possible, and provide adequate interventions to appropriately
stretch each learner

Create Student Choice Boards


Student choice boards can take a variety of forms but they are essentially a list of
options of learning activities for students to select from. They can provide choices
in what, how, with whom, where or when students learn. Many of them include
“must dos” and “may do” options so students are clear on expectations but also
have room for personalization and learning based on interest.

Bright Spot Examples

Resources
📖 Choice board design
📖 Create choice boards
📖 Must Do & May Do Lists
🧰 Choice Board Examples and Templates
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I scaffold, customize whenever possible, and provide adequate interventions to appropriately
stretch each learner

Plan for Flexible Pacing


Learners pace themselves through a series of activities, spending more or less
time on each step as needed. This can be as simple as 15-minutes of flexibly
paced time in class to as complex as an entire course that is flexibly paced. Start
by defining the learning experiences. Document this in a way that is accessible to
students. Designate checkpoints throughout the flexibly paced block. Any learner
who is behind the minimum pace at a checkpoint should meet briefly with you 1-1
to create an action plan to get back on track.

Bright Spot Examples

Resources
📖 🎧 Using playlists to differentiate the pace

📖 🎧 Self-paced classroom

🖥 Playlists to Personalize learning

📺 Student-Centered Blended Learning


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Shift the decision-making


dynamic
Shift the decision-making dynamic 14
During learning, I enable students to choose and co-design curricula. After learning, I co-construct
and offer choice of how to demonstrate proficiency.

Designate Learner Experts


Students can consult an in-class expert if they have an academic question about
a standard/skill. Experts are identified on an ongoing basis.

This ensures the teacher can work with a small-group or 1-1 uninterrupted.

Bright Spot Examples

Resources
📖 Students as teachers

📖 Benefits of Peer to Peer Teaching


Shift the decision-making dynamic 15
During learning, I enable students to choose and co-design curricula. After learning, I co-construct
and offer choice of how to demonstrate proficiency.

Design the Environment with Learners


Students are invited to add to bulletin boards, design seating arrangements, and
determine where materials are stored to co-create their learning environment
with their teacher.

Bright Spot Examples

Resources
📖 Classroom Eye Candy

📖 Impact of flexible seating


Shift the decision-making dynamic 16
During learning, I enable students to choose and co-design curricula. After learning, I co-construct
and offer choice of how to demonstrate proficiency.

Co-Construct Curriculum
Share the design process of learning experiences with your students. Ask your
students what they want to learn about, encourage them to ideate ways they
could show what they know, or invite them to build their own learning playlist.

Bright Spot Examples


Students have the opportunity to earn a badge
on a topic interesting to
them. They also have a playlist of activities to
work through each week that includes sections
for teacher small group, homework, & reflection.

Students create personalized playlist


each week based on their learning
goals and offerings by the teacher.

“Stops” might include time with the


teacher, independent learning time, or
activities with other students.

Resources
📖 Getting started with co-construction

📖 🎧 Co-construct success criteria

📖 Choices available to students based on preferences &


interests
Shift the decision-making dynamic 17
During learning, I enable students to choose and co-design curricula. After learning, I co-construct
and offer choice of how to demonstrate proficiency.

Involve Learners in Planning


Assessments
Involving learners in the planning of assessments builds learner agency and
creates an environment where learners feel included and that they can be
successful on assessments. It can be as simple as providing choice in whether a
student gives a presentation or writes an essay about their learning. Once
students have built their agency skills you could provide them a learning
outcome and ask them to design their own assessment or define the success
criteria.

Bright Spot Examples

Students choose their project


This child chose to create a
topic & the presentation style to
food truck + menu to
showcase their learning to the
demonstrate her learning
about where food comes community
from. She presented her Student teams created a
menu & model food truck plan to show what they
to her classmates virtually. learned during Genius Hour,
each creating artifacts to
demonstrate the skills they
mastered

Resources
📖 Assessment choice boards

📺 Co-create rubrics with learners

📖 Multiple ways to show mastery


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Create responsive learning


environments
Create responsive learning experiences 19
I recognize and integrate knowledge of individual learners, diverse cultures, and the
community context in developing materials and pedagogy to ensure inclusive
learning environments that enable each learner to meet rigorous standards.

Examine your Implicit Bias & Take Action


Implicit biases are the automatic perceptions and attitudes that we have
towards others or the unconscious stereotypes we may hold. It’s important to
acknowledge our implicit biases and take action to ensure that they do not affect
our students’ experience in our classroom and school. Ensure that your learning
environment, culture, practices and curriculum are inclusive and equitable.

Bright Spot Examples

Use the PAUSE


framework to
interrupt bias in
your daily life.

Resources
🧰 Harvard’s Project Implicit–Implicit Bias Test

📺 Implicit Bias in Education

📖 Rooting out Implicit Bias in Classroom Participation

📖 6 Things to Do to Interrupt Implicit Bias


Create responsive learning experiences 20
I recognize and integrate knowledge of individual learners, diverse cultures, and the
community context in developing materials and pedagogy to ensure inclusive
learning environments that enable each learner to meet rigorous standards.

Get to Know your Learners


To create an inclusive learning environment you must first get to know the
learners in your classroom. In addition to greeting them daily and asking about
their favorite color it’s important to deeply understand who they are, their cultural
background and how they identify. You can leverage poetry, morning meeting or
check-in questions, show and tell bags, art and more to learn about your
learners.

Bright Spot Examples

Resources
🖥 Understand the Identity, language and culture of each student
📖 4-part system for getting to know your students
📖 🎧 Dialogue journals
🧰 Where We’re From Classroom Poem Activity
📖 Cross the Line Questions
📖 35 Collaborative Art Projects That Bring Out Everyone’s Creative Side
Create responsive learning experiences 21
I recognize and integrate knowledge of individual learners, diverse cultures, and the
community context in developing materials and pedagogy to ensure inclusive
learning environments that enable each learner to meet rigorous standards.

Audit your Curriculum & Practices


An inclusive and responsive learning environment includes a curriculum that
provide windows and mirrors into a variety of lived experiences to make all
students feel a sense of belonging. It’s important that diverse perspectives are
represented but not tokenized or “othered”. In addition to auditing curriculum and
classroom libraries, educators should audit their practices to ensure that they are
equitable and inclusive.

Bright Spot Examples

Resources
📖 Audit your classroom library

🧰 Classroom library equity audit tool

📖 Classroom Practices Equity Audit


Create responsive learning experiences 22
I recognize and integrate knowledge of individual learners, diverse cultures, and the
community context in developing materials and pedagogy to ensure inclusive
learning environments that enable each learner to meet rigorous standards.

Plan to Reach ALL Learners


It’s important that educators have high expectations for all learners and support
them in reaching those high expectations. UDL and Culturally Responsive
Teaching practices help educators provide a variety of learning experiences that
meet each student’s unique needs and support them in meeting rigorous
standards and learning outcomes. This is about planning for diverse needs
before a learner struggles and offering options to students that help them meet
the standard.

Bright Spot Examples

Resources
📖 3 Tips to make any lesson more culturally responsive

📺What is UDL?

🖥UDL Guidelines
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Leverage Technology
Leverage Technology 24
I use technology to lessen the burden of tracking student progress, find
materials, engage learners in different ways, and offer academic supports

Engage Learners Digitally


Whole group classroom lessons can be personalized using technology to engage
learners and check for understanding throughout the lesson to pivot live. You can
use tools to create interactive presentations such as Pear Deck, leverage
adaptive software to provide personalized lessons, or flip the classroom using
tools to create lessons that students work through at their own pace.

Bright Spot Examples


Quickly create
animated
videos with
your voice
using
Powtoon

Use Edpuzzle to add interactive


questions, notes, etc to your
lesson videos and track which
students have completed the
lesson.

Resources
🧰 Use Pear Deck or Nearpod to interact with students in a live lesson

🧰 Leverage computer adaptive curricula (Newsela, Khan Academy, IXL, etc)

📖 Flip the classroom (use Edpuzzle or Powtoon)


Leverage Technology 25
I use technology to lessen the burden of tracking student progress, find
materials, engage learners in different ways, and offer academic supports

Assess Digitally
Assessing digitally provides you and students immediate (or faster) feedback
and can be easily found in the future. It also provides for a variety of methods or
assessment and feedback such as voice or video. You can also play cooperative
and competitive games that provide students with immediate answers while also
creating a fun environment for reviewing discrete knowledge (using Kahoot,
Quizziz, Quizlet Live, Gimkit, etc).

Bright Spot Examples


Formative.com allows students to answer
questions in a variety of modes and you can
quickly provide scores and written or verbal
feedback on the spot. You can then quickly
see a heatmap of how students are
performing given your feedback to spot
trends and provide personalized interventions.

You can use Google Sheet with all of the


responses from a Google Form and the
Autocrat add-on to provide feedback
that gets sent as an email to individual

Resources students.

📖 Use Google Forms for formative assessment

📖 Use Autocrat to provide personalized feedback from google sheets

🧰 Use formative.com to provide live feedback

📖 Personalize feedback online


Leverage Technology 26
I use technology to lessen the burden of tracking student progress, find
materials, engage learners in different ways, and offer academic supports

Gather Student Voice Digitally


Not all students like to speak out loud in class. Leverage digital tools to include all
voices. You can poll students and ask them to add their thoughts to things like
flipgrid, padlet or jamboard.

Bright Spot Examples

Resources
📖 Create word cloud or polls with mentimeter or polleverywhere

📖 Amplify student voice with Padlet, Flipgrid and podcasts


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Empower learners
I help learners build their agency,
determine priorities, and develop
skills to choose between competing
interests.

Develop
learner Encourage
meta- self-regulation
cognition I develop learners’ abilities to
self-reflect and self-regulate via
strategies such as goal setting,
self-assessment and self-pacing.
Competencies
Click on a
competency of
interest to find Highlight the process
specific strategies. of thinking
I use modeling, rehearsal, and
feedback techniques that highlight
the processes of thinking, rather than
focusing exclusively on the products
of thinking.
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Empower learners
Empower learners 29
I help learners build their agency, determine priorities, and develop skills to choose
between competing interests.

Define Learner Jobs


Students identify classroom leadership roles, creating a sense of accountability
for their classroom community. Students can take on jobs like classroom
photographer, greeter (for guests), birthday celebrator, historian, There are so
many ways that students can help!

Student jobs create a sense of ownership for the students and empower them to
take on responsibilities that make the learning community function.

Bright Spot Examples

Resources
📺 Team jobs
📖 How to Create Jobs in Middle School Math
📖 41 Classroom jobs
📖 Essential Middle School Classroom Jobs
📖 Classroom Jobs in the Secondary Classroom
Empower learners 30
I help learners build their agency, determine priorities, and develop skills to choose
between competing interests.

Create Accessible Environments for


Agency
Students should have access to both learning materials and tools. There should
be norms established and the right training to support students working
independently.

Bright Spot Examples

Buckets are
color-coded
based on setting &
numbered based on
level. For example,
yellow or red buckets
are independent
work.

Resources
📖 Is your classroom organized for learning?

📖 Montessori classrooms are set up for learner agency


Empower learners 31
I help learners build their agency, determine priorities, and develop skills to choose
between competing interests.

Offer Flexible Seating Options


Students choose where they will learn best, when appropriate. Classroom
routines and rituals are in place to support this level of student
decision-making

Bright Spot Examples

Resources
📖 Impact of flexible seating

🎧 Seat Yourself: How Flexible Seating Can Be Successful In the Classroom

📖 Flexible Seating: The SAMR Model

🧰 Flexible Seating Planning Worksheet


Empower learners 32
I help learners build their agency, determine priorities, and develop skills to choose
between competing interests.

Teach Prioritization Skills


Personalization can not just be made up of decisions that the educator makes
for students. Educators must empower learners to make decisions about their
learning and that takes new prioritization and decision making skills. These can
be explicitly taught and educators can give protocols and frameworks to
support learners in making decisions about their time, how they will learn,
where they will learn and more.

Bright Spot Examples

Resources
📖 Help students schedule their own time

🖥 Create priority lists with students

📖 Explicitly teach prioritizing as an executive function skill

📖 🧰 Explicitly teach decision making skills using a Decision Matrix


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Encourage self-regulation
Encourage self-regulation 34
I develop learners’ abilities to self-reflect and self-regulate via strategies such as
goal setting, self-assessment and self-pacing.

Provide Self-Regulation Support &


Intervention
In order for students to be able to self-regulate we must create an environment
that supports self-regulation, teach self-regulation skills and support students
as their work on these skills. Introducing the concept of growth mindset and
productive struggle and then providing opportunities for students to practice is
an important first step. There are also frameworks to support students regulate
their feelings such as Zones of Regulation and you can provide students with
supports such as calm corners of the room or teaching calming techniques.

Bright Spot Examples

Resources
📖 Teach students about Growth Mindset
📖 Allow for productive struggle
🧰 Zones of Regulation framework and reflection
📖 Grounding and Calming Techniques
📖 Teaching self-regulation
Encourage self-regulation 35
I develop learners’ abilities to self-reflect and self-regulate via strategies such as
goal setting, self-assessment and self-pacing.

Set Goals with Learners


Students set goals, create plans for how they will reach their goals. & document
their progress. This builds critical executive functioning skills.

Bright Spot Examples

Resources
📖 🧰 WOOP Goal Setting

📖 Support students in setting & tracking high quality goals

🖥 Student goal setting & tracking strategies

🧰 Goal Setting Routine Guide & Template


Encourage self-regulation 36
I develop learners’ abilities to self-reflect and self-regulate via strategies such as
goal setting, self-assessment and self-pacing.

Support Learner Reflection


John Dewey famously said, “We do not learn from experience … we learn from
reflecting on experience.” Bring that learning to life by providing rich opportunities
for your students to reflect on their experiences. In addition, asking students to
self-reflect on their emotions and experiences supports their self-awareness and
self-regulation.

Bright Spot Examples

Resources
📖 Self reflection during a project

🧰 SEL reflection prompts


Encourage self-regulation 37
I develop learners’ abilities to self-reflect and self-regulate via strategies such as
goal setting, self-assessment and self-pacing.

Develop Self-Assessment Skills


Self-assessment is an important metacognitive skill to build with learners.
Students who self-assess will be more aware of the learning goals and where
they currently are so they can make decisions about their next steps and own
their learning.

Bright Spot Examples

Resources
📖 Responsive Classroom Tools: Self-Assessment
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Highlight the process of


thinking
Highlight the process of thinking 39
I use modeling, rehearsal, and feedback techniques that highlight the processes of thinking, rather
than focusing exclusively on the products of thinking.

Model Using Think Alouds


Intentionally make your thinking process transparent to your learners through a Think Aloud.
This can happen in any discipline but is most known through math talks and read alouds. In
math talks, the teacher and later the students, talk through their thinking while completing a
math problem explaining why they are taking certain actions or using certain formulas. In
literature circles, the teacher will explain thoughts about the characters or plot and ask
questions they are thinking out loud while reading. A coach can do this by explaining what
they are doing with their feet when they set up for a free throw instead of just doing it in front
of players. How can you think aloud while you model something in your classroom?

Bright Spot Examples

Resources
📺 Reciprocal teaching

📺 Think Alouds

📖 Read Alouds

📖 Modeling mathematical thinking


Highlight the process of thinking 40
I use modeling, rehearsal, and feedback techniques that highlight the processes of thinking, rather
than focusing exclusively on the products of thinking.

Document Thinking
Encourage learners to document how they arrived at an answer in both
independent and collaborative settings. Have students jot down their strategy or
thought process. Honor that different strategies or approaches work for different
people. After formative or summative assessment, consider having students
review and document their previous and current thinking.

Bright Spot Examples

Resources
🖥 Use Explain Everything for students to record their thinking while
working

📖 Mind maps
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Engage learners as
problem-solvers
I provide opportunities for learners to
contribute to classroom or
school-based decision-making
processes

Amplify
student Solicit feedback
I solicit my learners’ feedback about
voice their classroom experience and use it
to improve and iterate

Competencies
Click on a
competency of Promote Equity of
interest to find Voice
specific strategies. I use protocols and methods to
ensure all student voices are heard
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Engage learners as
problem-solvers
Engage learners as problem-solvers 43
I provide opportunities for learners to contribute to classroom or school-based decision-making
processes

Leverage Design Thinking


Design Thinking asks learners to solve real world problems by understanding
a true need based on empathy interviews and then design solutions that will
meet those needs. Leveraging this strategy in your classroom makes
learners problem-solvers and can help integrate them into the community if
they are solving school-based or community-based problems. You can
have a local business or a school leader present a problem, have students
interview them to better understand their needs and then design solutions.

Bright Spot Examples

Resources
🖥 Liberatory Design

🖥 Design Thinking

📺 What is Design Thinking?


Engage learners as problem-solvers 44
I provide opportunities for learners to contribute to classroom or school-based decision-making
processes

Establish Classroom Rights


A collaborative agreement between teacher and students focusing
specifically on how they will treat one another can be a powerful way for
students to take ownership in the classroom.

Bright Spot Examples

Photo credit: NEDRP

Resources
📺 Treatment Agreement intro video

📺 ES & HS Treatment Agreements

📖 Culturally relevant social norms contract

📖 Classroom Constitution
Engage learners as problem-solvers 45
I provide opportunities for learners to contribute to classroom or school-based decision-making
processes

Host Student-Led Conferences


Student-led conferences are meetings facilitated by students with their
families and teachers. In this meeting, students share their learning,
progress towards goals, and next steps. Students who participate in
student-led conferences take more ownership of their learning. The
communication between school and home becomes more transparent
through this form of conferencing.

Bright Spot Examples

Resources
🖥 Student-Led Conferences: Resources for Educators

📺 Middle School Student Conferences

📺 Kindergarten student led conferences


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Solicit Feedback
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Solicit feedback
I solicit my learners’ feedback about their classroom experience and use it to improve and iterate

Give Student Surveys


Student surveys allow you to ask a broad range of questions to a wider
audience. You can find out what students like about your classroom, what
improvements they suggest and ideas they have. You can also ask questions
about how students feel in your class by using an SEL focused survey.
Logistically, you can ask students to write their answers on paper or collect
answers using Google Forms or other digital survey tools.

Bright Spot Examples

Resources
📖 10 Ideas for raising student voice

📖 Survey questions to include

🧰 Use an SEL focused student survey

🧰 Collecting Student Input Guide


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Solicit feedback
I solicit my learners’ feedback about their classroom experience and use it to improve and iterate

Conduct Empathy Interviews


Empathy interviews help you see the world through the eyes of your stakeholders,
understand their feelings, appreciate them as human beings and communicate
your understanding. When you are able to interview students in your school or
class about their experiences you will better be able to serve them.

Bright Spot Examples

Resources
📺 What are Empathy Interviews and Why Do Them?

🧰 Empathy Interview Guide

🧰 Embracing a Mindset of Radical Inclusion


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Promote Equity of Voice


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Promote Equity of Voice
I use protocols and methods to ensure all student voices are heard

Use Protocols for Discussion


Discussion protocols such as think-pair-share, jigsaws, socratic seminars,
consultancy protocols and more provide equitable air space for all students and
create a guided discussion so everyone remains focused. Use timers to ensure
that all students are able to share equally. One strategy is to give everyone a set
amount of time to share, such as 2 min, and if a student doesn’t take the full 2
minutes to allow everyone to sit and think in case the student thinks of something
else to share within their time. This also ensures other students will not share
more than their 2 min.

Bright Spot Examples

Resources
📖 Set up an equitable air space

🧰 Discussion protocols

🖥 Socratic seminar

🧰 wheel of names
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Index of Personalized Learning Strategies


Below are a list of the personalized learning strategies listed in this toolkit. Click on the
strategy to find the page with a description, examples and resources.

Customize Use assessment Assess Formatively


FOR and AS Use Data Trackers
the Learning Co-Create Learner Portraits & learning Plans
learning
Experience Group Students

Ensure flexibility in Create Student Choice Boards


learning process, Plan for Flexible Pacing
product, or pace

Create responsive Examine your Implicit Bias & Take Action


learning Get to Know your Learners
experiences Audit your Curriculum & Practices
Plan to Reach ALL Learners

Leverage Engage Learners Digitally


technology Assess Digitally
Gather Student Voice Digitally

Shift the Designate Learner Experts


decision-making Design the Environment with Learners
dynamic Co-Construct Curriculum
Involve Learners in Planning Assessments

Develop Empower learners Define Learner Jobs


Create Accessible Environments for Agency
learners' Offer Flexible Seating Options
meta- Teach Prioritization Skills
cognition,
self- Highlight the Model Using Think Alouds
process of thinking Document Thinking
regulation,
and
perseverance Encourage self- Provide Self-Regulation Support & Intervention
regulation Set Goals with Learners
Support Learner Reflection
Develop Self-Assessment Skills

Amplify Engage learners as Leverage Design Thinking


problem-solvers Establish Classroom Rights
student voice Host Student-Led Conferences

Solicit feedback Give Student Surveys


Conduct Empathy Interviews

Promote equity of Use Protocols for Discussion


voice

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