SUPPORTING INNOVATION
An elementary school serving a disadvantaged community in Cleveland, OH committed to closing the achievement gap using personalized learning.
An non-profit organization dedicated to educational excellence in Oakland, CA supported the adoption of personalized learning through its School Design Lab.
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This PK-8 school serves an economically disadvantaged community (100% FRL) in Cleveland, OH. High rates of transiency and chronic absenteeism result in a wide range of academic levels and student needs in every classroom.
Selected by the district to participate in a school redesign program, Charles Eliot committed to "personalized learning" as its core strategy for raising achievement. Empowering students to drive their own learning is a means of both engaging their students as active learners and enabling teachers to support a range of needs. To transform learning school-wide, the school designed, tested and refined a PL prototype in an initial cohort of classrooms, before rolling it out to successive cohorts over three years.
Building Blocks Support: We provided a comprehensive school redesign program, including a series of instructional design workshops, protocols for program evaluation and continuous improvement, and regular on-site coaching for teachers and administrators.
KEY ELEMENTS OF MODEL
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Strategic Planning. Six-year plan defined PL vision, core practices & cohort rollout plan.
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School Redesign. Year-long bootcamps empower diverse schools to design site-specific PL models.
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Site-Level Leads. District-trained PL leads at each school coach teachers and leaders.
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Learning Maps. Teachers create unit "maps" to help students identify their own paths to mastering unit standards.
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Data-Driven Goals. Students use formative assessment data to set learning goals and move on once they've mastered them.
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Learning Modalities. Students learn and practice applying standards in the ways that work best for them.
Ivy Wheeler Principal
Jeff has been a consistent, supportive, and positive partner in our transformation process. Our school is growing fast in our ability to support students and families because of Building Blocks Ed.
ADOPTED PERSONALIZED LEARNING TO EMPOWER STUDENTS AND RAISE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
CHARLES ELIOT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
