
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.