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Personalized learning empowers students by providing them with control over how they learn, allowing them to tlor their educational experience based on individual strengths, needs, motivations, and goals.
Across the United States, personalized learning policies and funding are increasing in schools. However, there remns a significant need for identifying best practices and articulating both benefits and challenges of this approach.
WestEd's evaluation of Galt Joint Union Elementary School District’s GJUESD Bright Future initiative offers insights into personalized learning implementation:
This paper outlines the framework and components of the district’s personalized learning program. It features case studies from selected schools currently implementing personalized learning strategies under the Bright Future banner.
We share feedback from focus groups, interviews with educators, administrators, and parents on the successes and challenges at the school level.
One key finding: In Year 4 of the initiative, GJUESD was among five districts in California showing significant growth in math achievement on Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC tests. Specifically, there was a notable improvement across multiple grade levels with an over 15 percentage point increase at Grade 5.
These findings contribute to knowledge for administrators, teachers, researchers, policymakers, and others about how personalized learning can be implemented effectively in small to medium-sized districts that support diverse populations of learners.
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Copyright: 2017
Format: PDF
Pages: 39
Publisher: WestEd
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