Personalized Learning : Preparing High School Students to Create Their Futures

by Dimartino, Joseph; Clarke, John H.; Wolk, Denise

• ISBN13: 9780810845305
• ISBN10: 081084530X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-02-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Editors' Foreword	vii
Introduction: Honors Night	ix
Joseph DiMartino
Section 1: Personalized Learning Plans
When Learning Matters: Using Learning Plans to Educate One Student at a Time	1	(16)
Elliot Washor
Appendix to Chapter 1	12	(5)
Priscilla Santana
Assessing to Engage: Developing Personal Profiles for Each Student	17	(24)
Elizabeth Cushman Brandjes
Personalization and Secondary School Renewal	41	(28)
Anne Friedrichs
David Gibson
Personalized Learning and Personalized Teaching	69	(18)
John Clarke
Section 2: Personalized High School Teaching
The Path to Personalized Learning: A Teacher's Perspective	87	(16)
Edorah Frazer
Democracy and Equity in the Classroom: A Team Design	103	(16)
Pamela Fisher
Service at the Heart of Personalized Learning: Developing Relationships between Self and Other	119	(22)
Patti Smith
Karin Schaefer
Community-Connected Learning: Personalization as a Vehicle for Reform	141	(20)
Adria Steinberg
Jane Milley
Marty Liebowitz
Preparing Teachers for Personalized Student Learning through Teacher Training	161	(12)
A. Thomas Billings
Section 3: Designing Schools That Engage Each Student
Making Learning Personal: Educational Practices That Work	173	(22)
John Clarke
Edorah Frazer
Joseph DiMartino
Pamela Fisher
Patti Smith
Toward the Creation of a Personalized High School	195	(15)
Robert Mackin
Putting Student Performance Data at the Center of School Reform: New Expectations for Student Achievement and School Accountability	210	(19)
Mary Ann Lachat
Martha Williams
Using Breaking Ranks to Engage a School Community in Cooperative Reform	229	(16)
Hal Hayden
Section 4: Adapting the Systems That Shape High School Learning
High School Capacities for Systemic Change	245	(24)
Andrew Seager
Cynthia Jorgensen
Making Personalization a Statewide Priority: Maine's Promising Futures Movement	269	(17)
Gordon Donaldson
George Marnik
Focused Thinking: Aiming School Accreditation toward Improved Learning	286	(23)
Pamela Gray-Bennett
Growing High School Reform: Systemic Change as Organic Adaptation	309	(10)
John Clarke
Conclusion: Gathering Momentum for High School Personalization	319	(10)
Joseph DiMartino
Juan Lopez
Anne Miller
Denise Wolk
About the Contributors	329