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Reflect & Iterate Workshop

Friday, March 7, 2025

Personalized Learning with Jamestown CSD

Today’s Slides:

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Your Education Elements Team

Nick Esposito

nick@edelements.com

Miriam Cohen

miriam@edelements.com

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Personalized Learning Roadmap

School-Level Work: Implementation

Summer - Fall

Winter - Spring

Foundations Workshop

Core 4 Deep Dives

Learning Walk 1

Design Workshop

Learning Walk 2

Reflect and Plan Workshop

Kick-off Meeting

Plan and Align

Foundations

Design

Reflect and Iterate

Reflect and Plan

Reflect and Iterate Workshop

Culminating Celebration

7Cs Round 2

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Agenda

Opening and Check-in
Reflect

PL Wins & Challenges
Teacher Reflection
PL + 7C’s Exploration

Iterate

Identify Areas to Iterate
Work Time to Build

Closeout

Objectives

Reflect on current PL teaching practices

Look ahead to refine our practice and focus our work moving to the end of the year

Connect with other teachers who are succeeding and struggling in similar ways

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Check-In: Which award would you give yourself this year and why?

Best Director

You serve as a guide directing your students every day to achieve learning objectives.

Actor/Actress in a supporting role

You are a natural coach. You leverage your expertise in a way that makes others shine.

Original Screenplay

You are an innovative thinker and built a new world to work in this year for yourself and your students.

Makeup and Hair Styling

You are all in the details. You pay extra attention to the things others might miss to make the experience more impactful for everyone.

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PART 1 | REFLECT

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Personalized Learning Wins

Reflect on two personalized learning wins that you have experienced thus far. Write your answers on separate post-it notes (provide enough detail so that others can learn from it)

Share out your answers with those at your table.

Take your post-it notes and place them on the poster that corresponds to an area of the Core Four

What are two PL wins that you have experienced in your classroom?

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Personalized Learning Challenges

Reflect on 1-2 personalized learning challenges that you have come up against thus far. Write your answers on separate post-it notes (provide enough detail so that others can suggest solutions). Share out at your table.

Take your post-it notes and place them on the poster that corresponds to an area of the Core Four

Visit the challenge posters and provide some suggestions to the questions asked.

What are 1-2 questions or challenges that you are experiencing while implementing personalized learning?

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Guided Reflection

Self-assess your personalized learning implementation practices using the following prompts.

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speed dating

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SPEED DATING | Instructions

Stand up and find someone to chat with!
Both of you respond to the prompt on the screen
When we say switch, find a new partner and respond to the next prompt!

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Share a time when you felt truly connected to a student. What did you do to build that connection?

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What’s one strategy you use to make sure students feel heard, even when you disagree with them?

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How do you connect classroom content to students’ real lives and interests?

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How do you support students when they are struggling with a concept without simply giving them the answer?

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What’s a classroom routine, procedure or ‘hack’ that helps keep your classroom running smoothly?

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How do you encourage students to take academic risks and embrace challenges?

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Share a favorite review or summarization strategy that works well in your classroom.

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PART 2 | ITERATE

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Looking Ahead

Return to your Teacher Reflection Page. Use your reflections thus far to guide the decisions that you make for your future PL implementation.

Fill out the structured TWEAK - TRASH - TRY protocol.

Teachers will pick one PL practice they want to refine

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A Shift from Last Year | 7Cs + PL

Find the table that corresponds to the 7C’s indicator that your prototype is working to address. At your table, discuss what you have tried & socialize problems of practice that you have come up against.

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7C’s + Core Four Alignment

Construct: Captivate

Indicator: Designing Stimulating Lessons

Indicator: Facilitate Active Participation

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Next Steps | 7Cs and Core Four Alignment

Indicator: Designing Stimulating Lessons

Teacher designs process for students to set their own goals and use those goals to inform the decisions they make in class around choices they are offered.
Teacher designs differentiated tasks and creates opportunities for students to choose which tasks they work on in groups or independently based on their interests.
Teacher designs open-ended assignments and prompts students to work in pairs or groups to determine how they will approach completing the assignment.
Teacher designs multiple ways for students to access content or demonstrate their learning and prompts students to choose which pathway.

Captivate: Spark and maintain student interest in learning

How else might the Core Four Components be leveraged to address the target indicator?

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7C’s Exploration

Let’s continue to explore resources

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Prototype ITERATE PLAN

Now it is time to make your plan for the rest of the school year.

During this time we will consider -

What PL strategies do we want to focus on implementing with fidelity? (to address your chosen 7C’s indicator)
What impact do we wish to see in our classroom?
What artifacts can we collect of that impact?

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Feedback

When you are ready, share your plan with your teammates, Miriam + Nick, or Jeff + Jason for feedback. What additional support do you need?

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