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Building a personalized learning program
The Vanguard program enhances personalized learning in 67 schools with a focus on teacher leadership and growth, impacting 43,000 students, including those with special needs and English learners. It emphasizes a community-based approach that encourages innovation, technology use, and continuous improvement for educators. The program supports teachers in becoming agents of change while fostering a culture of collaboration through resources and partnerships.
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- 1. Building Vanguard Diffusing Innovationto Personalize Instruction Amy Cordes Achievement Specialist for Personalized Learning @AmyFCPSAchieve
- 2. Audience ● 67 Schools ●43,000 Students ● 4,800 students receiving special education services (11%) ● 3,540 English Learners (8%) ● 11,000 receiving Free or Reduced-Price Meal Services (26%)
- 3. Why Vanguard? A positivecommunity of practice for teacher leadership and growth Student centered classrooms focused on personalization Experts in blended and purposeful use of technology
- 4. Why Vanguard? Empower teachersto lead from the classroom Celebrate and elevate the work Personalized learning is a pathway to equity and closing achievement gaps
- 5. Our Approach ● Try,learn and adjust ● Enjoy creating ● Troubleshoot; persevere ● Ambassadors for change ● Look for use cases and successes ● Will join a “system” ● Can ● apply innovation given accelerators Everett Rodgers, 1995
- 6. The Vanguard Program 3 Years Teach Lead Coach Embrace,Empower, Cultivate
- 7. Our Approach ● TechnologyStack Evaluation ● Curriculum Projects ● Blended/Personalized Learning Program
- 8. What makes Vanguard special? Jobembedded Celebrates change and risk- taking Brings the outside in Teachers empowered to lead and be agents of change
- 9. Evidence of Growth 4Microcredentials Proof Points Focus: Blended and Personalization
- 10. Credit Opportunity ● HoodCollege, Frederick Maryland ● Maryland State Department of Education
- 11. Every Content Areaand Grade Level Represented 3 Years 159 Vanguards 48 Schools
- 12. What are Vanguardteachers saying about the experience?
- 13. Tips for GettingStarted ● Let teachers build the program ● Build capacity and support in curriculum and leaders ○ Book studies, blended professional learning, connections to systemic initiatives ● Make connections to existing frameworks about quality instruction and effective use of technology ● Communication is key- Information sessions, Twitter, video ● Build Partnerships ● Bring the outside in- Keynote speakers ● Be Transparent
- 14. Key Resources thatInformed Our Work Horn, M & Staker, H (2015. Blended: Using disruptive innovation to improve schools. Jossey-Bass: San Francisco, CA. Robinson, L. (2012). Changeology: How to enable groups, communities and societies to do things they've never done before. Green Books Limited: Devon, Tontes. Rodgers, E. (1995) The diffusion of innovations. (4th ed). The Free Press: New York. Tucker, C., Wycoff, T., & Green, J. (2017) Blended learning in action: A practical guide toward sustainable change. Corwin: Thousand Oaks, Ca. Vygotsky, L. S. (1978). Mind in society: The development of higher psychological processes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
- 15. Resources FCPS Vanguard onGoogle Transformation Center ● Kevin Cuppett, Executive Director of Curriculum, Instruction and Innovation: @FCPSExecDir_CII ● Eric Haines, Project Manager for Personalize Learning: @EHainesFCPS
Editor's Notes
- #3 37 elementary schools, 13 middle schools, 10 high schools, 3 public charter schools, an alternative school, a special education school, Flexible Evening High and a Career and Technology Center
- #4 Teachers need and deserve the opportunity and right conditions to collaborate, take risks, learn and iterate on their work
- #5 We want to create conditions that encourage some of our best teachers to stay in the classroom Talking Points: Teachers enjoy being celebrated and being part of something unique and special. Vanguards can receive up to 9 graduate credits from our Hood College Partnership as well as continuing education credits through our state department of education. Books such as Blended Learning in Action, Learning Transformed and PowerUP Blended Vanguard Speaker Series - Catlin Tucker Jason Green Eric Sheninger, Stephanee Stevens Iteach at Kennesaw State U Making Learning Personal Newsletter