1. MASS CUSTOMIZED LEARNING Learning in the Age of Empowerment

2. MASS CUSTOMIZED LEARNING (MCL)
VOCABULARY
STANDARDS-BASED EDUCATION (SBE)
PROFICIENCY-BASED LEARNING (PBL)
PERSONALIZED LEARNING (PL)
MASS CUSTOMIZED LEARNING (MCL)

3. AGENDA  THE DEFINITION  THE RATIONALE  THE PICTURE: A glimpse
 STARTER STEPS: Just a few

4. Mass Customized Learning
is not a
“PROGRAM”
“MODEL”
Includes New
Elementary Vision X
This book is about a
VISION
for education

5. compelling, now doable VISION for education
OUR TWO PURPOSES
To present a
compelling, now doable VISION for education
To create a
DIALOGUE among stakeholders of how to get to the vision.

6. About
VISIONS

7. THE Vision Question What is impossible to do
in your organization today,
but if you could do it,
it would fundamentally change
your results?
Joel Barker, Futurist

8. “BELIEFS” Students learn in different ways. Students
FOUNDATIONAL PRINCIPLES
FOR LEARNING
“BELIEFS”
Students
learn in different ways.
Students
learning in different timeframes.

9. LEADERSHIP SCHOOL CULTURE Curriculum Assessment Grading Instruction
Marzano
Marzano
Marzano
Marzano
Schwahn and McGarvey
McGarvey

10. COMPONENTS OF EFFECTIVE SCHOOL CULTURES
They have effective, shared
LEADERSHIP
They have a clear, articulated
MISSION & VISION
Schwahn
They operate from a set of
GUIDING PRINCIPLES about LEARNING
Schwahn
They model
CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
Marzano, Schwahn
They create a
GROWTH MINDSET CULTURE
Dweck
They are
RESEARCH and EVIDENCE-BASED
Marzano
They have a guaranteed and viable
CURRICULUM
Marzano
Schwahn
Marzano
Schwahn
Marzano
They improve
TEACHER EXPERTISE
Marzano

11. The Structure or Delivery System
LEADERSHIP
SCHOOL CULTURE
Curriculum
Assessment
Grading
Instruction
The Structure or Delivery System
Marzano
Marzano
Marzano
Marzano
Schwahn and McGarvey
McGarvey

12. Having a “healthy disregard for the impossible.”
A Guiding Principle
for
Google co-founders
Larry Page and Sergey Brin

13. Creative Tension Disequilibrium Source:
Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline

14. COMPELLING? LOGICAL? DOABLE? Is the Vision pulling you?
THREE THINGS TO CONSIDER ABOUT A VISION:
COMPELLING?
LOGICAL?
DOABLE?
Is the Vision pulling you?
Is the Vision needed?
Is the Vision possible?
Schwahn & McGarvey

15. MASS CUSTOMIZED LEARNING
The Definition
The Definition

16. The MCL Vision Mass Customized Learning is about
the implementation of a school structure
that makes it possible
to meet the individual and personal needs of learners
every hour of every day.
Every learner, every day, comes to school and
is met at his/her specific learning level,
is challenged,
is successful,
and looks forward to returning to school tomorrow.
Schwahn & McGarvey

17. MCL DEFINED MASS CUSTOMIZED LEARNING……. INDIVIDUAL LEARNING NEEDS…….
Meeting the individual and personal needs of learners every hour of every day.
Made possible by today’s transformational technologies
INDIVIDUAL LEARNING NEEDS…….
Appropriate level of learning
Appropriate learning style
Content of high interest
Schwahn & McGarvey

18. MASS CUSTOMIZED LEARNING
The Definition
The Rationale

19. MASS CUSTOMIZED LEARNING
The Rationale
The Assembly-line Delivery of Instruction is
severely out-dated.
The Definition

20. The Committee of Ten (NEA)
1892
The Committee of Ten (NEA)
2012
1892
120 !!
12 years of education: 8 grades 1-8; 4 years of high school
Teach English, math, history/civics to every student every
year in high school
Teach biology, chemistry, and physics respectively in
ascending high school years
1908
Henry Ford introduced the Model T Ford

21. Joel Barker’s “The Life Cycle of Paradigms”
Problems Solved
Time
Paradigms (new ways of viewing our world) tend to start slow but pick up speed as
they solve problems.
If successful, the paradigm solves the problems of the day & becomes the new norm.
Paradigms are destined to run out of steam when they no longer solve the day’s
problems.

22. The Assembly-Line School Paradigm This paradigm made the USA # 1!
Problems Solved
PROBLEM
OF THE DAY:
Educate the masses for the Industrial Age which required:
75% unskilled
25% skilled
Horace Mann
Time
This paradigm made the USA # 1!
New “Problems of the Day” emerge…and a new Paradigm is required
Adapted from Joel Barker concept

23. The Mass Customized Learning Paradigm
Problems Solved
PROBLEM
OF THE DAY:
Need for Everyone to be Highly Skilled to Compete in The Information Age Global Economy
1422, MDOE, Your vision, MCCL
21st Century,  Charlie & Bea et al!
Time
New problems of the day emerge calling for Information Age solutions.
MCL Paradigm is needed to again move USA to # 1.
Adapted from Joel Barker concept

24. The Structure or Delivery System
Motivation
Engagement
Anywhere…Anytime
Learning
21st Century
Learning
LEADERSHIP
SCHOOL CULTURE
Curriculum
Assessment
Grading
Instruction
The Structure or Delivery System
Marzano
Marzano
Marzano
Marzano
Schwahn and McGarvey
Real-world..
Life-long…
Student-Centered
Learning/Environments
Autonomy
Choice/Voice

25. The BIG QUESTION:
Do you think that education is going to get better if we continue in our old Industrial Age paradigm?
Schwahn & McGarvey

26. students learn something is more important than WHETHER
Shifting the Paradigm
From This
To This
WHETHER
students learn it well
is more important than
WHEN
they learn it.
WHEN
students learn something is more important than WHETHER
they learn it well.
TIME
is the constant
&
LEARNING
is the variable
LEARNING
is the constant
&
TIME
is the variable

27. When our purpose in education was to sort out and select talent
Industrial Age Structures and Practices
….that used to make sense
When our purpose in education was to sort out and select talent
TIME is the constant
and
LEARNING is the variable

28. Industrial Age Structures and Practices ….that used to make sense
BELL CURVE EXPECTATIONS
grading on the curve, failing students, accepting dropouts
ASSEMBLY-LINE INSTRUCTION
everyone moves at the same pace; some moved to “rework;”
grade levels; bell schedule; class periods
TIME THE CONSTANT; LEARNING THE VARIABLE
seat time is the measurement
LIMITED LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
learning and demonstrating in one way – in school
paper and pencil orientation
Schwahn & McGarvey

29. Industrial Age Structures and Practices ….that used to make sense
AGRARIAN SCHOOL CALENDAR
A,B, C or 100 POINT GRADING SYSTEM
rewards/punishments to motivate (manipulate) students
averaging grades
COLLEGE PREP CURRICULUM/TEXTBOOKS
preparing students for “more school”
UNIONIZED INDUSTRY
driven by the contract and adult needs
MANAGEMENT OF THE STATUS QUO
efficiency and control are the goals
Schwahn & McGarvey

30. * Institutionalized by educators
Education’s Industrial Age Structures & Practices (WBW’s) have been…
* Institutionalized by educators
* Legalized by policy makers
* Endorsed in teacher contracts
* Internalized by parents & the public
* Legitimized through “reforms”
* Reinforced by the media
…Oh…for so long…that people think
GOD invented them…and so revere them!
Schwahn & McGarvey

31. Our purpose in education is to develop talent
Information Age Structures and Practices
….that we now need because
Our purpose in education
is to develop talent
LEARNING is the constant
and
TIME is the variable

32. Information Age Structures and Practices
Transformational technology
Learning rate tailored to the individual learner
Learning style tailored to the individual learner
Learning interest/content tailored to the individual learner
Standard for mastery the learner has mastered the outcome or “they are not finished yet”
Leaders create innovative future-focused organizational visions and manage toward their implementation
Schwahn & McGarvey

33. Our Transformational Approach Requires a Visionary Orientation:
from Facing Realities
to Facing Possibilities
from… “ITB Thinking”
to… “Possibility Thinking”
from… “Fixing”
to… “Transforming”
from… “Managing”
to… “Leading”
from… “Assembly Line”
to… “MCL”
Schwahn & McGarvey

34. Is this decision about learning or control?
A telltale “filter question:”
Is this decision about learning or control?
Schwahn & McGarvey

35. If your idea for educational change retains the industrial age assembly line delivery of instruction:
It is not innovative!
It is not transformative!
It IS most likely tinkering with AND
perpetuating an outdated
organizational structure.
Schwahn & McGarvey

36. MASS CUSTOMIZED LEARNING
The Rationale
The Assembly-line Delivery of Instruction is
severely out-dated.
2. The World is Customized!
The Definition

37. Book Stores Kindle The INDUSTRIAL AGE gave us
The INFORMATION AGE gave us
Kindle
Schwahn & McGarvey

38. Encyclopedia Britannica
The INDUSTRIAL AGE gave us
Encyclopedia Britannica
The INFORMATION AGE gave us
Wikipedia
Schwahn & McGarvey

39. Garage Sales eBay The INDUSTRIAL AGE gave us
The INFORMATION AGE gave us
eBay
Schwahn & McGarvey

40. Film and Movies Digits and YouTube The INDUSTRIAL AGE gave us
The INFORMATION AGE gave us
Digits and YouTube
Schwahn & McGarvey

41. Graded, Time-based Learning Schools
The INDUSTRIAL AGE gave us
Graded, Time-based Learning Schools
The INFORMATION AGE gave us
Graded, Time-based Learning Schools
Schwahn & McGarvey

42. OR

43. Graded, Time-based Learning Schools
The INDUSTRIAL AGE gave us
Graded, Time-based Learning Schools
The INFORMATION AGE gave us
Apple Apps and
Mass Customized Learning

44. Impact of the Information Age……
The INFORMATION AGE didn’t change
WHAT products and services
were provided to customers very much.
The INFORMATION AGE changed
HOW products and services
were delivered …… for everyone.
Except for education…..
Schwahn & McGarvey

45. About INNOVATION….
(Schools could/should learn from this….should do this.)
The history of innovation is chock-full of “geniuses” who begged, borrowed, and stole ideas from one category and simply applied them to another.
Imitation across industries is more efficient and effective than blue-sky creativity and innovation.
The secret is bringing a great idea from another market or industry to your market or your industry.
Something common to the world at large may be very new to you and your organization.
Schwahn & McGarvey

46. Cross-Industry Borrowing for
Empowerment Age Industrial Age Delivery System
GOOGLE / BING / WIKIPEDIA ...…for the Content
BLACKBOARD …………………..….for Curriculum, Instruction, Coordination
iTUNES ……………………… for Accessing On-line Learning
NETBOOKS or iPADS ……...….…....for Accessing the World’s Information
ATT / VERIZON………………….…..for Recordkeeping and Reporting
MICROSOFT CALENDAR……....…for Scheduling and Coordination
YOUTUBE…………………….… for Electronic Portfolios
WALMART BAR CODE……….....….for Tracking Students
AMAZON.COM………………..……..for Profiling Learning Styles and Interests
FACEBOOK……………….…….……for Student and Teacher Networking
APPLE / DROID APPS………..…..…for ALMOST ANYTHING
Schwahn & McGarvey

47. INDUSTRIAL AGE Paradigm of “SCHOOL” INFORMATION AGE Paradigm
HERE’S THE DIFFERENCE!
INDUSTRIAL AGE Paradigm of “SCHOOL”
INFORMATION AGE Paradigm
of “LEARNING SYSTEMS”
Specific Students
can learn
Specific Subjects in
Specific Classrooms
on a
Specific Schedule
in a
Specific Way
from a
Specific Teacher
Anyone
can learn
Anything
from
Anywhere at
Anytime in
Anyway
World Wide Experts
Spady & Schwahn

48. MASS CUSTOMIZED LEARNING
The Rationale
The Assembly-line Delivery of Instruction is
severely out-dated.
2. The World is Customized!
The Definition
3. Finally! We Can Now Act on the Research.

49. “BELIEFS” Students learn in different ways. Students
FOUNDATIONAL PRINCIPLES
FOR LEARNING
“BELIEFS”
Students
learn in different ways.
Students
learning in different timeframes.

50. MASS CUSTOMIZED LEARNING
The Definition
The Picture: Just a glimpse!

51. Standards-Referenced
Grade Levels K
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
7th
8th
Frsh
Soph
Jr.
Sr.
Curriculum
1st grade standards
Kinder Standards
Standards
Report
Cards
Assessment
Instruction
Debra Pickering

52. Standards-Referenced
Grade Levels K
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
7th
8th
Frsh
Soph
Jr.
Sr.
Curriculum
2nd grade standards
1st grade standards
Kinder Standards
Report
Cards
Assessment
Instruction
Debra Pickering

53. Standards-Referenced
Grade Levels K
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
7th
8th
Frsh
Soph
Jr.
Sr.
Curriculum
Course Standards
Grade Level standards
2nd grade standards
Report
Cards
Assessment
Instruction
Debra Pickering

54. Curriculum Levels (Measurement Topics)
Standards-Based
Age of the Learner 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
Curriculum Levels (Measurement Topics) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Report
Cards
Author’s Purpose
Place Value
Instruction
Assessment
Debra Pickering

55. Curriculum Levels (Measurement Topics)
Standards-Based
Age of the Learner 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
Curriculum Levels (Measurement Topics) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Required content
Specialize or Graduate
Debra Pickering

56. Curriculum Levels Each level identifies the targeted knowledge
Standards-Based 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Curriculum Levels
Each level identifies
the targeted knowledge
to be learned
(organized into “measurement topics”).
Debra Pickering

57. Today’s two Structural Options:
ONE,
the graded, time driven, assembly line, common to most public schools
TWO, cyber schools where all instruction is online
Neither of these options is consistent with
what we know about learners and learning
MCL IS consistent with
our most basic and most powerful research
Schwahn & McGarvey

58. Levels of Info Age Application
All instruction
is school-based or classroom- based.
Instruction
is classroom-based with opportunities for online support.
A balance of online and teacher facilitated learning …. based on the best approaches to learning.
Totally online. The district determines the learner outcomes, rate, and the content.
Totally online. The learner determines the rate, the content, and learning style.
Schwahn & McGarvey

59. Levels of Info Age Application
All instruction
is school-based or classroom- based.
Instruction
is classroom-based with opportunities for online support.
A balance of online and teacher facilitated learning … based on the best approaches to learning.
Totally online. The district determines the learner outcomes, rate, and the content.
Totally online. The learner determines the rate, the content, and learning style.
MCL
Schwahn & McGarvey

60. FRICTION-FREE

61. Any possible application to education??????
Apple, Inc.’s iTunes . . .
Allows me to select and buy MY favorite individual songs . . .
For only $1.39 cents each, cheaper than in ‘
Downloads them to my computer and my iPhone/iPad and I am listening to Rod Stewart sing “I Only Have Eyes for You” within minutes . . .
My VISA is debited . . .
Rod Stewart’s bank account is credited . . .
All totally “friction free” . . .
No one touched anything . . .
No one had to do any work . . .
And Apple’s CEO buys an expensive bottle of merlot . . .
Any possible application to education??????
Schwahn & McGarvey

62. Willow Creek iSchool
Allows Lincoln, a third grader, to download learner outcome 3.2.4, dividing with two numbers in the dividend . . .
Lincoln reviews his completed outcomes, electronic portfolio, and his next challenges . . .
Within 60 seconds, selects his learning style and content interest area for outcome and is working through a learning activity . . .
When completed, 45 minutes later, Lincoln tests out and Learner Outcome is marked “accomplished” and his portfolio is updated
Lincoln is rewarded by watching a film clip of Peyton Manning throwing three touchdown passes in the 2007 Super Bowl . . .
Lori and Kit and his Willow Creek Learning Coach Mary Brown are notified by of Lincoln’s success and drop him a personalized “attaboy” . . .
All totally “friction free” . . .
Lincoln’s Learning Coach did not have to touch anything . . .
No one but Lincoln had to do any work . . .
And Lincoln’s Mom calls his grandpa to boast about Lincoln’s intelligence, his cuteness, and their plans for that Dartmouth application . . .
Schwahn

63. SEMINARS

64. INFORMAL LEARNING GROUPS ON-LINE LEARNING
LEARNER OUTCOMES CLASSIFIED
AS TO LEARNING FORMAT
(Options)
INFORMAL LEARNING GROUPS
ON-LINE LEARNING
SEMINARS
LABWORK
PROJECTS
MENTORING/SHADOWING
ETC.
Schwahn & McGarvey

65. Example SEMINARS Interpersonal Communications
Interpersonal Relationships
Career Options that Fit Me
My Beliefs and Values: Identification and Evaluation
Diversity: The Problems and the Potential
Creating and Defending Your Business Plan
Budgeting Time and $$$$
Branding, Marketing, and Propaganda
Economic systems: Capitalism, Socialism, & Communism
Democracy and the History of the United States
Lewis and Clark and Westward Expansion
(Designed from your Strategic Direction and your Learner Outcomes.
Scheduled very much like our best universities now schedule classes)
Schwahn & McGarvey

66. HIGH SCHOOL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHAPTER 7:
Lori Does Her Learning Plan/Schedule
(also youtube video)
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CHAPTER 11:
The Elementary MCL Vision

67. MCL DEFINED MASS CUSTOMIZED LEARNING……. INDIVIDUAL LEARNING NEEDS…….
Meeting the individual and personal needs of learners every hour of every day.
Made possible by today’s transformational technologies
INDIVIDUAL LEARNING NEEDS…….
Appropriate level of learning
Appropriate learning style
Content of high interest
Schwahn & McGarvey

68. MCL: A Teacher’s View
Sarah Irish
Dirigo Middle School
Dixfield, Maine

69. COMPELLING? LOGICAL? DOABLE? Is the Vision pulling you?
THREE THINGS TO CONSIDER ABOUT A VISION:
COMPELLING?
LOGICAL?
DOABLE?
Is the Vision pulling you?
Is the Vision needed?
Is the Vision possible?
Schwahn & McGarvey

70. COMPELLING?

71. COMPELLING? The feedback on the MCL VISION
has been overwhelming positive. Typical responses are:
“Finally! I have been waiting for this to happen!” (Teacher)
“I could have written this book!” (Director)
“This is what we have been trying to do, but you have put words around it.” (Technology Leader)
A compelling Vision doesn’t push us – it pulls us!
(C.Schwahn)

72. MCL: THE POWER OF VISIONS Learning in the Age of EMPOWERMENT
How do organizations inspire their employees
to be more than observers,
to actually create their futures? WITH A VISION
Having a POWERFUL VISION is
the most forceful motivator of change
that companies, communities, nations,
and individuals possess.
A POWERFUL VISION
helps members of your organization
to think together, dream together,
act together to make a difference.
Joel Barker
MCL:
Learning in the
Age of
EMPOWERMENT

73. LOGICAL?

74. LOGICAL?
The MCL VISION allows us to finally* implement/act on the basic research on learning. It is supported by the research on:
 Learning Styles and Learning Rates *
 Motivation and Engagement *
 Team Teaching
 Multi-Age Classrooms
 21st Century Learning
The MCL VISION replaces the severely out-dated Industrial Age assembly-line structure of 1892 (which…….by the way …….…. was not researched-based!)

75. DOABLE?

76. The mass customizing technology is hiding in plain sight!
DOABLE?
The MCL VISION is now possible with the advent of the customizing technology that is all around us – except, of course, in education.
 Cross Industry Borrowing
 A BALANCED Delivery System
Outsourcing Parts of the Curriculum to technology –
freeing teachers up to teach complex reasoning and
engaging learners in real problem-solving scenarios
 Teachers Sharing the Load!
The mass customizing technology is hiding in plain sight!

77. MASS CUSTOMIZED LEARNING
The Definition
Starter Steps: Just a few!

78. Mass Customized Learning
STARTER STEPS
for
Mass Customized Learning
Ready
for
Rollout
Practicing
“Within
the Box”
Shifting/
Changing
the Mindset
McGarvey

79. Shifting/Changing the Mindset
STARTER STEPS for Mass Customized Learning
Shifting/Changing the Mindset
* Conduct BOOK STUDIES
Inevitable: Mass Customized Learning by Schwahn & McGarvey 
Mindset by Carol Dweck
Drive by Daniel Pink
Why We Do What We Do by Edward Deci
The Kids Left Behind
STUDY MOTIVATION
& ENGAGEMENT
* Change/Watch YOUR LANGUAGE (talk the talk of MCL)
* Encourage and support INNOVATION/RISK TAKING (A Bully-Free Culture!!!)
* Create PROFESSIONAL LEARNING TEAMS (Research AND Evidence-Based)
Monitoring how learners are doing on LEARNING GOALS vs Activities/Assignments
Model/Expect CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
* Use PROBLEM SOLVING TOOLS
McGarvey

80. Practicing “Within the Box”
STARTER STEPS for Mass Customized Learning
Practicing “Within the Box”
* Create a STRATEGIC DIRECTION toward MCL with Stakeholders
Based on Future Trends
Mission
Vision
Core Values/Principles of Learning/Principles of Professionalism
Learner Outcomes
* Adopt a COMMON LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION/LEARNING
* RECOGNIZE behaviors/practices aligned with the MCL vision
* Use a FORMATIVE APPROACH TO FEEDBACK (Tackle grading!)
* GROUP AND REGROUP LEARNERS for specific Learning Targets
* Use ON-LINE INSTRUCTIONAL OPPORTUNITIES/RESOURCES for specific Learning Targets
McGarvey

81. STARTER STEPS for Mass Customized Learning
Ready for Rollout
* Write CURRICULUM AS LEARNER OUTCOMES
* Categorize LEARNER OUTCOMES BY LEARNING FORMAT
* Create and place ON-LINE LEARNER OUTCOMES online
* Create SEMINARS for Learner Outcomes requiring interaction with a
Learning Facilitator (teacher)
* Design/acquire and implement SCHEDULING TECHNOLOGY for individual learners
* Design/acquire and implement ACCOUNTABILITY TECHNOLOGY for administration
McGarvey

82. MASS CUSTOMIZED LEARNING
The Definition
Operate from
a Set of Guiding Principles

83. Some Generalizations from the Research on Learning
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
for Students & Learning
Students learn in different ways.
Students learn in different timeframes.
Success breeds success and influences esteem, attitude, and motivation.
Mistakes are inherent in learning.

84. Since ……then…. Mistakes are inherent in the learning process.
Students learn in different timeframes.
(write in one of your Guiding Principle)
……then….
What grading practices should we STOP doing?
And, what grading practices should we START doing?
B. McGarvey

85. MASS CUSTOMIZED LEARNING
The Definition
Focus on Learning Goals
vs Activities/Assignments

86. Setting Specific Goals + Tracking Progress
Marzano on:
Setting Specific Goals + Tracking Progress
Setting specific goals for student achievement and then tracking progress regarding those goals is one of the most powerful actions a teacher, school, or district can take. 86

87. Lori does her schedule
A conversation between Lori, a 14-year-old learner and her father
Likes pop music, athletics, math, technology…and Christopher
Is a rather responsible, self-directed learner….but a teenager!
Attends a Learning Community (formerly called a school) that has
created the Information Age infrastructure for Mass Customized
Learning.
Her “Personal Learning Interests/Essential Questions” (generated
with her Learning Coach) are:
- Economics in the Music World
- How Does the Stock Market Work?
- Basic Psychology: Why do we say and do what we do?
- Politics: What do Conservatives believe and how do they tend to behave? What do Liberals believe and how do they tend to behave?
Schwahn & McGarvey

88. Lori’s Scheduling Sequence:
From the least flexible to the most flexible.
1. Team Sports/Music (e.g., Gymnastics/Band)
4. Laboratories (e.g., Science)
2. Seminars (e.g., Interpersonal Communications)
3. Coop Learning Online (e.g., Math online learning with three friends)
5. Personal Learning Interests (e.g., Economics of the music world)
6. Personal Online Learning Outcomes (e.g., Math/US History)
Schwahn & McGarvey

89. Lori’s Seminars for the next two months……..
(About 15 hours/week)
Interpersonal Communication
My Beliefs and Values: Identification and Evaluation
Career Options that Fit Me
Diversity: The Problems and the Potential
Creating and Defending Your Business Plan

90. ACTIVITY LORI DOES HER SCHEDULE
Listen/watch for the practicality and the relative
simplicity of creating an individual learning plan for
each learner.
Think what this process might do for student motivation.
What happens when Lori completes her schedule and hits “send?”
Schwahn & McGarvey

91. Maine Cohort for Customized Learning
Leading the development, implementation, and promotion of customized learning
Introduction
What is your background??
Brought together by
a COMMON VISION
This is an “inside job!”

92. Maine Cohort Districts October 2011 9 School Districts 19,332 Learners
Linda
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Geographically spread out..
Shared Vision

93. MCCL Maine Cohort Districts October 2011 9 School Districts 19,332
3 Post-Sec. Schools
50,772 Learners
Representing
27% of Maine’s
K-12
Learners
Maine 
Cohort 
Districts
October 2011
9 School Districts
19,332
Learners
Linda
----- Meeting Notes (9/27/12 22:59) -----
Geographically spread out..
Shared Vision

94. MCCL 25 School Districts 3 Post-Sec. Schools 50,772 Learners
Representing
27% of Maine’s
K-12
Learners
Linda
----- Meeting Notes (9/27/12 22:59) -----
Geographically spread out..
Shared Vision

95. MCCL
MCCL
October 2012
October 2011

96. Maine Cohort Member Organizations & Individuals
Maine Department of Education
Maine Learning Technology Initiative
Maine International Center for Digital Learning (MICDL) Bette Manchester and John Newlin
Mary Jane McCalmon
Bea McGarvey
Doug Snow, Apple Inc.
Bret King, Tech. Project Manager (Contracted Service)