#PersonalizedLearning

EMPOWERING STUDENTS WITH AGENCY TO CHANGE THE EDUCATIONAL PARADIGM

OUR MISSION

"Helping students own their future by owning their learning!"

8Degrees Up inspires schools to empower students with agency allowing them to personalize their learning. We believe that school is still the best environment to best prepare students for an unknown world, however, the focus of school must evolve to transcend knowledge and focus on the skills and dispositions that create a learning mindset.

At 8Degrees Up, we help schools make incremental progress in personalizing learning. We work with our clients to create customized solutions that honor the unique context of each school. True to our mission, our goal is to create a personalized pathway for every client

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ABOUT 8˚ UP

BUILDING THE SCHOOLS OF THE FUTURE

8Degrees Up is an educational consulting firm that supports schools in becoming Highly Effective and Learning Progressive learning organizations. The paradigm for schools has changed. The future will be owned by those who can learn, unlearn, and relearn. Schools need to cultivate students that know themselves, know how to learn and know how to leverage their unique strengths. At 8Degrees Up we believe that schools are ready to evolve. Our focus is to support schools in becoming learning progressive by personalizing learning and empowering students with agency. For students to own their future, they must first own their learning.

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The Conference

CONSULTANTS

2

COUNTRIES

8

YEARS

44

SCHOOLS

158

CONSULTANTS

Our consultants are practitioners who have done the hard work of moving schools forward. We offer practical solutions that honor the unique contexts of each of our clients.

Dr. Sascha Heckmann

Co-Founder Educational Consultant International School Director

Dr. Timothy Stuart

Co-Founder Educational Consultant Superintendent at ICS Addis Ababa

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LEARNER CENTERED

We believe schools must be learner-centered, empowering each child with the skills and dispositions to have agency in their learning.

FUTURE FOCUSED

For students to be prepared for their future they must internalize the learning process so they create and re-create their future.

CONTEXT AWARE

PERSONALIZED

We believe deeply that context matters and no two schools or students are alike.

To capture the human potential of our future, we must personalize the experience so that all students achieve high levels of success.

OUR PROCESS

THINKING IN 8˚

Openness and Empathy: Essential Ingredients for Personalized Learning and School Change (Part III)

Every administrator and educator in a change-story must successfully lead through fear to trust. Empathy for school leaders is not really a well-practiced or even admirable pastime among educators. But, let’s go there for just a minute. As administrators, we believe we must make the shift to innovation amid a sea of eagerness for change and amid fears and insecurities, including our own. Our desire for faultless implementation and our angst are strong. But they are weak reaso

Openness and Empathy: Essential Ingredients for Personalized Learning and School Change (Part II)

Openness and empathy are the secret ingredients of positive change. The moment we go from invisible to visible in the change process is the moment we come out of the shadows to participate more fully in the story. As long as we feel shamed or excluded because of either our enthusiasm or resistance to change, we can’t bring something better into being. The same goes for our colleagues and others when we make their responses seem invalid. Find yourself and others in the change-

Openness and Empathy: Essential Ingredients for Personalized Learning and School Change (Part I)

School change and innovation, including personalized learning, can throw everyone into the deep end at first. It’s disorienting. It’s also a must, because all progress takes place outside our comfort zone. Students, administrators, teachers, board members and parents will feel the personal effects of losing and gaining in the process. I come to this topic as a bit of an ‘Everyman’ because I have closely touched or been in each of these roles through significant change in high

5 Signs You Are Ready to Explore Personalized Learning

Schools always wonder when are we ready to shift our paradigm to a more personalized learning approach. We have five things for school leaders to look for as they ponder a a move to personalized learning. 1) Clear Learning Process The foundation to personalization is having a crystal clear learning process that is consistently used across the school. We do not have a suggestion or preference about a specific model, so long as your model is coherent and research supported.

THINKING IN 8˚

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