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Your Name and Title:  Marcia Kish Blended and Personalized Learning Coach

School or Organization Name: DSD Professional Development 

Co-Presenter Name(s):

Area of the World from Which You Will Present: United States

Language in Which You Will Present: English

Target Audience(s): Educators that are ready to move to Personalized Learning 

Short Session Description (one line): 

The Personalized Learning Playbook will walk educators through a game plan that will bring together all the key aspects of personalized learning in one complete package. 

Full Session Description (as long as you would like):

The Personalized Learning Playbook will focus in on giving the participants a mock example of what personalized learning looks like in a classroom setting.  The room will be set up with different activities around the room that the participants can visit after they generated their own learning plan and targets.  Throughout the workshop the participants will be able to: 

• Define what is Personalized Learning 
• Explore examples of personalized learning in a K-12 classroom
• Collaborate with other participants to deepen their knowledge about personalized learning
• Generate a game plan for deploying personalized learning through the Five Formation Plays laid out in the Personalized Learning Playbook.  
• Apply global connection by searching for personalized learning classrooms from around the country. 
• Apply a variety of application choices for students with the App Smashing Dice

The Personalized Learning Playbook workshop will be demonstrating a variety of free technology tools that will work on any platform and in grades K-12.  Most of the tools will be part of the App Smashing Dice that will allow students to make global connections and to deep their understanding.  

• PearDeck- Now allows students choice and voice
• Reflector
• GoFormative
• Frontrow
• NoRedInk
• Prodigy
• ReadTheory
• Newsela or Tween Tribune
• EdCite
• StoryBoard That
• Smore
• Canva
• Wondropolis

Throughout the Personalized Learning Playboook workshop, participants will be able to generate a lesson plan to take back to their classrooms in one of the five formation plays.  As a facilitator of the workshop, I will be showcasing how to generate the different lesson plans in all five formations.  I believe that in order to deploy any shift in education, the participants need to see it in action first.  

Background on why the Five Formations work.  Over the last eight years, I have been working as a blended and personalized learning coach for schools all around the country.  I have deployed the Five Formations from the Personalized Learning Playbook with school districts like Fulton County in Georgia, Akron STEM Middle School in Ohio, and with my own Blended Learning School, Learning Without Limits in Columbus, Ohio.  If educators follow these Five Formation Game plans, then they will be able to deploy a successful Personalized Learning environment.

The Five Formations within the Personalized Learning Playbook: 

• Personalized Learning Game Book Formation 1- Learn how to transform a traditional classroom into a personalized learning classroom.
• Personalized Learning Game Book Formation 2- Implementing free technology tools that will provided adaptive practice and data collection to allow students to generate their own learning targets.
• Personalized Learning Game Book Formation 3- Developing a playlist of activities that students can choice from to generate their own learning goals and to master their learning targets.
• Personalized Learning Game Book Formation 4- Honing in on goal setting from the student collected data folders.  Turning over the power of learning to the students
• Personalized Learning Game Book Formation 5- Teacher becomes the facilitator and guides the students through their own prescript of learning targets

Websites / URLs Associated with Your Session: www.dsdprofessionaldevelopment.com