This tool helps the user create a template for a learner profile for their classroom/school/district. It's not a sample, but instead intended to help you think about the different areas you might want to include in your profile to develop a rich understanding of your learners.

Links to two documents that will assist students in creating goals for their learning. These documents walk students through setting up their learning outcomes, the tools they will use and how they will show evidence of their learning.

Educators discuss a shift in roles and relationships as learners and educators co-design learning experiences together. Educators also discuss their struggles with changing the mental models they have long held about what teaching should be.

This post gives an example of a young learner who is being encouraged to develop a sense of ownership of his learning and offers educators strategies to build ownership in their learners.

A Director of Curriculum and Instruction of a member school district discusses the benefits of working through a regional approach to innovation.

This resource provides a bank of exercises for students to choose and work with.  The exercises are categorized by target area and level of difficulty.  Included in the resource is video footage of how to execute the exercise, serving as a visual learning tool for the learner.  Additional options exist with this resource, including body weight exercises, TRX exercises, and dumbbell exercises.

The Future Ready Leaders project provides a systematic review of research and a personalized playlist for district leaders generated from 50 short, high production quality videos. Collectively, these videos constitute a virtual site visit hosted by some of the most forward leaning Future Ready district leaders in the country sharing lessons learned and effective policies and practices with their peers.

This video explains what proficiency based progress is and shows how it can be applied in WI schools.

Quill is our web-based tool that provides personalized, interactive writing lessons for middle school students. Each of the activities is built directly from the Common Core State Standards. Quill focuses on a single standard, and breaks it down into lessons that can be completed in 10-15 minutes. Grammar is an essential part of forming cohesive writing; it never exists in a vacuum. As such, in Quill's sentence writing activities, they require learners to rewrite the entire sentence correctly, not just choose a multiple choice answer or fill in the blank. The proofreading passages are filled with grammatical mistakes. In each of the passages, the student’s job is to identify and fix each of the errors. Quill then highlights the student’s own errors and provides a follow-up lesson on those particular subject areas. In both activities, students receive immediate feedback and are encouraged to repeat assignments until they achieve proficiency. Teachers can track which students are struggling with certain concepts and provide individualized instruction to suit their needs.

This blog post provides specific steps educators can take to begin the goal setting process with learners.

A variety of blog posts and other resources related to creating maker spaces in school libraries.

A blog post from the Institute for Personalized Learning that defines and outlines how to build learner efficacy.

Hear educators talk about how there is a shift of responsibility and control when students and teachers co-design the learning experiences. You’ll hear them talk about getting to know their students in ways they never did before, the importance of listening, not just talking. You’ll also hear them talk about how rewarding it is and they wouldn’t have it any other way.

Tenreiro, the 2016 National Principal of the Year, shares how embracing the Common Core Standards, Blended Learning and a more personalized approach to high school significantly improved student achievement.

Learners from a number of schools in Southeastern Wisconsin reflect on what agency means and how its applied at their schools.

In this article, Tom Vander Ark presents a definition of performance assessment, criteria for high quality performance assessment, and examples of different types of performance assessments. He then discusses reasons for using performance assessments (including in personalized learning), and ways to track results.