5 administrators detail the most overlooked aspects of personalized learning
Education Dive | November 12, 2018
As schools look to scale more individualized approaches, it can be easy for components like trauma-informed methods and PD to fall by the wayside.If you asked administrators to name the three buzzwords they've heard most in the past five years, "personalized learning" would probably be among the most common. The approach is certainly not without merit, showing significant results in school models like the private and Montessori systems but scaling that approach has proven to be challenging in traditional schools, where class sizes tend to be much larger and much greater federal accountability around assessment and results exists.To gain more insight into the challenges of adopting a personalized approach, Education Dive asked five school and district leaders what they see as the most overlooked aspect of personalization when schools and districts adopt these models. Here's what they had to say.