UDL and Personalized Learning: The Path to Deeper Learning and System Change

Agenda

• Welcome and Introduction

• Audience Poll

• UDL and Personalized Learning

• Implementing District-wide Change

• UDL and Deeper Learning

• Q & A

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Kathleen McClaskey, CEO and Co-Founder of

Personalize Learning, LLC

Mike Jamerson,Director of Technology

Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation

Co-author of bestseller Make Learning Personal and How to Personalize Learning: A Practical Guide for Getting Started and Going Deeper. A Universal Design for Learning (UDL) consultant with over 30 years experience in creating learner-centered environments as a teacher, K-12 administrator and consultant. Follow her on Twitter @khmmc

Director of Technology at BCSC since 1998 where he has lead the 1:1 effort, the implementation of the itslearning LMS, and served a technical liaison for the renovation/construction of over 700 classrooms. Currently serves as the Chair of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN).

Meet our speakers…

poll

UDL and Personalized Learning UDL and Deeper Learning Implementing District-wide Change

Gain a deeper understanding of UDL and Personalized Learning

● What is UDL and Personalized Learning?

● Why UDL for all learners?

● Building Teacher-Learner relationship using the Learner Profile

Today’s Take Aways

Learn about best practices for implementing district-wide change

● Shared vision and beliefs by all stakeholders

● Common language with a communication plan

● Human and technological infrastructure

Learn how one district is realizing success with UDL and deeper learning

● Featuring Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation

● http://www.bcsc.k12.in.us/

UDL and Personalized Learning: Leading to Deeper Learning

•PDI Chart

Personalized learning means...• Learners understand how they learn best by using the UDL Lens.• Teachers understand learners by using the UDL Lens.• Teachers universally-design lessons and projects that encourage

voice and choice.• Learners take responsibility for their learning.• Learners own and drive their learning along their learning path.• Teachers and learners roles change.• Teachers and learners are partners in learning who design authentic

learning activities.• Learners demonstrate mastery in a competency-based system and

progress at their own pace.

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With the new Every Student Succeeds Act, federal K-12 education law now defines and endorses Universal Design for Learning (UDL) as a scientifically-based approach for personalizing learning.

UDL in the ESSA

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Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Based on Neuroscience and How we Learn

UDL Principles Provide a Lensfor Personalized Learning

www.udlcenter.org © CAST, 2012. Permission to use graphic with all rights reserved by CAST

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Access • Multiple Means of Representation

Engage• Multiple Means

of Engagement

Express• Multiple Means

of Expression and Action

The UDL Lens: Access, Engage and Express™

Access, Engage and Express is a trademark of Personalize Learning, LLC

Personalize Learning for All Learners usingUDL as the Lens

Access Engage Expressby transforming information into useable knowledge through• digital media• touch• audio• visual media

with content using • Interactives• video• problem-solving• designing• self-assessment • reflection

actions through• writing• presenting• storytelling• multimedia• building • making sense of learning

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Learner Profile

• Strengths• Challenges• Preferences and needs• Interests, Talents, Aspirations

and Passions

Create a Learner Profile using the UDL Lens

© 2016 From How to Personalize Learning: A Practical Guide for Getting Started and Going Deeperby Barbara Bray and Kathleen McClaskey

Ask Learners to share:• Strengths and Challenges in Access, Engage and Express TM

• Interest, Talents, Passions and Aspirations • Words that best describe them

Have each learnertell their story who they are and on how they learn using a Learner Profile

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Learner Profile

Words about me: curious, imaginative, artistic, friendly

Interests: soccer, baseball, historyTalents: storytelling, drawing, connecting the dots, mental mathPassionate about: fishing, having a business one day Aspirations: forest ranger, comic book illustrator

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Partnership in Learning: Teacher and Learner Use the UDL Lens

Teacher

Learner

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Universal Design for Learning

Personalized Learning

UDL + PL = The Path to Deeper Learning

KNOWING (the “what”)

DeeperLearningDOING

(the “how”) BEING(the “why”)

Deeper Learning for One…and All

MISSION Deeper learning is our individualized

approach for preparing all learners to succeed in a competitive global economy and

democratic society and to tackle the complex issues they will encounter.

VISION BCSC demonstrates a community

commitment to deeper learning for one…and all.

Implementing UDL and Personalized Learning District-wide

The Foundation to Implementing UDL and Personalized Learning

Vision • UDL and Personalized Learning

Shared Beliefs

• Teaching• Learning• Community

CommonLanguag

e• Culture of

Learning

The Journey

Creating Change

Organizational Change

Individual Change

AwarenessDesire

Knowledge

Ability

Reinforcement

Compelling Challenge

Communication

Leadership

The “Why” – Part 1

Awareness

Enlistment

Demonstration

The “Why” – Part 2

Desire

Expert Advice

Staff Development

Harvard UDL Institute

Annual UDL Forum

The “What”

Knowledge

Internal Expertise

Instructional Consultation Teams

Local UDL Coordinators

The “How”

Ability

Teacher Evaluation

School-wide Learning Outcomes

Celebration

Expert Learners

Reinforcement

Strategic Planning 2014

Our Essential Questions

➢What will the BCSC Learning Environment look like in 2016?

➢ How do we meet the needs of all of our stakeholders?

2014…The State of Learning Management Systems at BCSC

My Big Campus

Curriculum Loft

Echo

Edmodo

Moodle

Support BCSC’s commitment to and

practice of UDL

➢Create sustainable flexible technology–enabled learning environments.

➢Create environments and cultures where technology is seamlessly integrated into learning.

Strategies

Support the needs of multiple pathways initiatives

➢Implement a common, district-wide Learning Management System.

➢Explore online/computer-based course implementation and delivery.

➢Increase density of student devices and access to learning resources.

Strategies

Success Factors

• Limited Size• Every grade, every

school, every program represented

• “Friendlies”

• LMS-based• Provided through

itslearning platform and direct contact

• Elementary - LA delivered as thin common cartridge

• Secondary - create at least one unit

• Prepare for E-learning days

• People• Processes• Network• Equipment• Leadership

Strategic Lead Team Approach Strong PD Plan Clear

ExpectationsSolid

Infrastructure

Universal Design for Learning Framework

Engagement Representation Expression

Deeper Learning

• Recruiting Interest• Persistence• Self-Regulation

• Perception• Language, Math Expressions,

Symbols• Comprehension

• Physical Action• Expression and Communication• Executive Functions

Expert Learners

Resourceful & Knowledgeable

Strategic & Goal-Directed

Purposeful & Motivated

Q & A

THANK YOU

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