The heart of personalization occurs in relationships with educators and learners. The core practices expected in these environments must permeate the entire organization and begin with the leader of learning.  Building personalized and agentic learning systems for all stakeholders allows the transformation to be deep and sustainable.

Essential components of this lever include:

• An instructional framework drives the learning and teaching decisions through the use of learning continuums of knowledge, skills, and dispositions aligned to competencies
• Learning experiences (instruction and curriculum) and assessment are aligned to knowledge, skills, and dispositions and are designed to meet every learner at their readiness level
• Instructional design and delivery is learner-centered and provides multiple pathways, flexible pace, and learner voice
• Educator serves as a learning coach, providing opportunities to co-design learning and assessment
• High expectations and rigorous practices allow for equitable outcomes and achievement for ALL
• Self-directed learners set goals and monitor their progress and goals are based on strengths, interests, and areas of growth
• A comprehensive assessment system aligned to learning continuums allows for evidence of learning over time and natures assessment-engaged learners

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Looking for professional learning to support this lever?

Assessment as Evidence For Learning
Find new ways to leverage assessment as a means to make learning and teaching more dynamic and responsive.

Balanced Assessment in a Standards-Guided Environment
Build rubrics, learning progressions, and proficiency scales for your existing learning environment, and empower learners to use these tools to monitor their own progress.

Boot Camp: Getting Started with Learner-Centered Practice
Interact virtually with your peers, explore topics specific to learner-centered practice, and discuss the characteristics of POWERful learners.

Conferring, Goal Setting, and Feedback
Explore strategies to structure and execute purposeful and impactful conferring and conferencing with your learners.

Elevating Learner Voice
Explore strategies that are known to get learners talking and sharing their perspectives.

Essential Skills to Bring Your Learner-Centered Vision to Life
Start co-designing learning with your learners to grow a collaborative vision and help them discover what skills and dispositions empower them to become successful.

Exploring Standards-Guided Learning
Explore how standards-guided learning serves as the core of learner pathways and proficiency-based progress.

Formative Assessment as a Driver of Learning and Instruction
Define the formative assessment process and explore learner-centered practices that can be embedded in any learning environment.

From Face-to-Face to Flexible: Designing Dynamic Learning Experiences
Look at the differences between face-to-face, virtual, and blended modes of learning, and explore specific resources to leverage in a variety of situations.

Getting Started with Learner-Centered Practice
Walk through activities and experiences that will help frame your thinking, and identify starting points to begin to develop a learner-centered environment.

Launching Learner-Centered Practice
Work as a community of practitioners to follow the design thinking process as you work to bring learner-centered practices to your environment.

Leading Learner-Centered Education
Work as a team to develop a theory of action that includes success measures, action planning, and strategies to empower learners.

Learner-Centered Site Visits
Tour learning environments to see POWERful learning strategies first-hand.