1. Personalized Learning in Loudoun County Public Schools
LEAP Meeting
September 14, 2016

2. Empowering All Students to Make Meaningful Contributions to the World

3. Differentiated Instruction
Context
Differentiated Instruction
Strong Core Curriculum + Differentiation
Students’ Performance Range is Significantly Below Grade Level (1-7%)
Students’ Performance Range is Significantly Above Grade Level (1-7%)
Core
Students’ Performance Range is Slightly Below to Slightly Above Grade Level (80-90%)
Students’ Performance Range is Below Grade Level (5-15%)
Students’ Performance Range is Above Grade Level (5-15%)
Adapted by Loudoun County Public Schools from the works of George Sugai & Timothy Lewis

4. So What is Personalized Learning?
Personalized Learning is dynamically tailoring learning experiences to students’ strengths, needs and/or interests.

5. Why Personalized Learning?
Students differ in how they learn. Personalized Learning offers students unique pathways towards common standards-based learning goals – and voice and choice in how they learn. Personalized Learning allows students to play an active role in mapping their own learning path.

6. Participating Pilot Schools
Elementary
Middle
Belmont Station
Catoctin
Discovery
Forest Grove
J.W. Tolbert
Rolling Ridge
Rosa Lee
Sterling
Sully
Waterford
Belmont Ridge
Farmwell Station
J.M. Lunsford
River Bend
Trailside

7. Personalized Learning in Schools
Every teacher in Grades 3-5 and middle school core content areas create a personalized learning community, using PL instructional models designed to meet individual learner needs and interests.

8. PL Instructional Models  
What does PL Look Like in the classroom?

9. Station Rotation Instructional Model
Digital Content
Whole Group Opening
Check for Understanding 3
station rotation
Small Group Instruction
Collaborative Work
Introduce or review new concepts followed by a quick check for understanding.
Student Reflection or Check for Understanding
Examples: Stop Light, Thumbs up/middle/down, Emojis, Online Poll or Exit Ticket

10. Station Rotation with Targeted Pull-Out Instructional Model
Digital Content
Whole Group Opening
Independent Work
Collaborative Work
Check for Understanding 3
station rotation
Introduce or review new concepts followed by a quick check for understanding.
Student Reflection or Check for Understanding
Examples: Stop Light, Thumbs up/middle/down, Emojis, Online Poll or Exit Ticket
Based off Slide 8, but allows teacher to facilitate and pull students as needed. More flexible. Daily model- Whole Group minutes may vary based on pre-assessment data. Do you need 20 minute whole group lesson for new content? Do most of the students have an understanding? Then touch base, set expectations and move into rotations.
Students pulled
as needed
Targeted Small Group Pull-Out

11. Pathways Reader’s Workshop + Rotation Instructional Model
Small Group Guided Reading
Additional Station
Independent Reading
Whole Group
Mini Lesson or or
Data Driven Decisions: Pre and Post Assessments
Mid Workshop Teaching Point
Purposeful Share
Connection
Teaching Point
Active Engagement Link
Additional Station
Small Group Guided Reading
Independent Reading
10 mins
20 mins
2 mins + Rotate
5 mins

12. Devices and Digital Tools to Support Personalized Learning
5000 iPads deployed
Adaptive Digital Content Selected:
Achieve 3000 for ELA
Aleks Math for Mathematics
Discovery Education Tech Books for Social Studies and Science

13. Training
Each school has a Personalized Learning Team comprised of the Principal, TRT and 3-4 teachers leaders who guide the work of the school.
These PL school teams received professional development during the spring and summer of , where they also had time to create their school’s vision for PL and the professional learning that their colleagues would receive.
Ongoing support throughout the year, including PL classroom walkthroughs, will be provided to these schools.

14. Next Steps
Gather data on the use of digital tools and adaptive digital content.
Continue to support pilot schools in implementing and strengthening their PL instructional models.
Pilot PL in 12 additional classrooms at the middle and high school level.
Learn from pilot schools and plan for rollout in additional schools.