Ready to Try These Favorite Teacher-Designed Ideas In Your Classroom?

Personalized Learning Design Collaboration Winners Announced

At The Learning Accelerator, we love the opportunity to celebrate teachers. Our recent Personalized Learning Design Collaboration with The Teachers Guild provided us with a chance to recognize and amplify some great ideas from educators around the country. We believe that often the best ideas come from teachers, and we strongly support the mission of the Teachers Guild to catalyze the creative leadership of teachers.

We recently announced the 12 teacher-created ideas selected as favorites from our Teachers Guild collaboration. Teachers generated these favorite ideas in response to this question: How might we empower all students to drive their learning and authentically demonstrate mastery? The winning ideas will help advance the personalized and blended learning field by including a variety of practices and strategies for students to have more choice and voice in their learning, as well as innovative options for demonstrating mastery. The favorites came from across the country and include ideas from teachers in K-12 district and charter schools:

• Personalized, Data-Based Choices in Literacy and Math, Jessica Craig, Kindergarten teacher from Douglas County School District in Colorado
• Cooperative Learning Teams, Laurie Ellis, High school teacher from Leadership Public Schools, Bay Area, California
• AP Pedagogy Dice, Everett Epstein, High school teacher from Blackstone Valley Mayoral Prep in Rhode Island
• Collective Feedback Tool, Sarah Gzesh, High school teacher from Leadership Public Schools, Bay Area, California
• Self Motivated Learners, Emily Johnson, Elementary school teacher from Distinctive Schools, Maple Grove, Minnesota
• Math Engagement and Support Beyond the Classroom, Kristine Lloyd, High school teacher from Thrive Public Schools in San Diego, California
• Co-Created Rubrics, Erik Ray, Elementary school teacher from Vista Unified School District in California
• Checklist-Style Project Goals, Tamar Sberlo, Middle school teacher from San Francisco Unified School District
• Sankofa: Reclaim your past, unlock your future, Harold Shields, Middle school teacher from San Francisco Unified School District
• Navigate Math, Sophia Thomas, High school teacher from Leadership Public Schools, Bay Area, California
• Teaching-Learning Teams, Samantha Wette, Middle school teacher from San Francisco Unified School District
• Changemakers, Jackson Whittington, Elementary school teacher from San Francisco Unified School District

We selected these ideas for their student-centered instructional approaches and ability to be implemented in a variety of contexts. We hope you will take a look and try one or more in your classrooms. We’d love to hear your feedback and stories of how these practices work in your schools. Tweet us at @learningaccel or send me an email at jennifer.wolfe@learningaccelerator.org.