Speaker Series: Initiate Personalized Learning
Discover how personalized learning is a customizable journey for each learning community!
Are you eager to explore research-based personalized learning models with national experts? Join us as we focus on district/building-level leadership, knowledge, and application knowing that ultimate success with personalized learning is based on understanding and exploring key questions:
- What is personalized learning?
- What are the different models/frameworks for personalized learning?
- What are the national trends of personalized learning?
- What is the ideal learning experience?
- How can we redesign school with the learner in mind?
- How do we use data to lead innovation?
Speaker Series
All sessions will be held at The Conference & Training Center at IU13, 1020 New Holland Ave., Lancaster, PA 17601, with lunch included.
The Ideal Learning Experience
- October 13, 2022 – 8:30 am-3:30 pm
- Presenter: Linda Laughlin
Redesigning School with the Learner in Mind
- November 8, 2022 – 8:30 am-3:30 pm
- Presenter: Dr. James Rickabaugh
Using Data to Lead Innovation
- January 10-11, 2023 (a 2-day event) – 8:30 am-3:30 pm
- Presenter: Bradley J. Geise
The Ideal Learning Experience
Transforming learning communities from the “Industrial Age” to the Ideal Learning Experience for EVERY learner
Presenter: Linda Laughlin
Date: October 13, 2022 – 8:30 am-3:30 pm
Audience: District/Building Administrators, Department Supervisors, Grade-Level and Lead Facilitators, Instructional Tech/Academic Coaches/Specialists
Details:
- 6 Act 48 hours + lunch included
- IU13 Districts: $199/person
- Non IU13 Districts: $225/person
Session Description:
Engagement … Motivation … Empowerment! Join nationally recognized expert Linda Laughlin to explore how customized learning concepts, strategies, and tools can help us create truly learner-centered communities. Mass Customized Learning (MCL) is a vision for transforming traditional industrial-age structures to customizing structures that allow a learning community to provide the Ideal Learning Experience for every one of their learners. Our session will focus on defining the “what” and “why” of the MCL Vision. We will break down MCL implementation into eight key components and study how they work together as a system. Participants will assess their own understanding of MCL and reflect on their roles as transformational leaders.
Linda Laughlin (lindaflaughlin@gmail.com) is the Executive Director of The Collaborative for Customized Learning and the Chief Facilitation Officer for the Mass Customized Learning National Alliance. She consults with schools transforming their systems to Mass Customized Learning (MCL) Communities.
She has 40+ years of experience in education holding positions of high school teacher, high school principal, assistant superintendent, and adjunct university instructor, teaching an online course on curriculum, instruction, and assessment in proficiency-based systems.
She has designed and delivered learning experiences focused on leadership, instruction, strategic design, and learning progression development for leaders and learning facilitators (teachers) who are transforming their systems.
Redesigning School with the Learner in Mind
Unleash limitless learning potential!
Presenter: Dr. James Rickabaugh
Date: November 8, 2022 – 8:30 am-3:30 pm
Audience: District/Building Administrators, Department Supervisors, Grade-Level and Lead Facilitators, Instructional Tech/Academic Coaches/Specialists
Details:
- 6 Act 48 hours + lunch included
- IU13 Districts: $199/person
- Non IU13 Districts: $225/person
Session Description:
We face the urgent challenge to provide our learners with the skills, knowledge, and experiences that prepare them for success in an era of constant learning, change, and innovation. Meeting the challenge has more to do with rethinking the design of schools and the experience of learners than it has to do with the effort, commitment, or accountability of those working and learning in schools. Join nationally recognized expert Dr. James Rickabaugh for a day of exploration, examination, reflection, and rethinking as we consider the “why,” “what,” and “how” of redesigning the institution we call school to place learners at the center and unleash limitless learning potential.
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Dr. James Rickabaugh serves as Senior Advisor at the Institute for Personalized Learning, an education innovation lab dedicated to the transformation of public education. The Institute serves more than 60 school districts across Wisconsin and several other states. Dr. Rickabaugh formerly served as Director of the Institute for Personalized learning. He served as Superintendent of the Whitefish Bay Schools, Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District, and Oconomowoc Area School District. He also served as Midwest Regional President for Voyager Expanded Learning.
Dr. Rickabaugh was Wisconsin Superintendent of the Year in 2008 and Minnesota Superintendent of the Year in 1996. He received the Excellence in Educational Leadership Award in 2005 from the University Council for Educational Administration, a lifetime achievement award from the Master Teacher in 2010, and the Aurora Institute Contribution to the Field award in 2016. Dr. Rickabaugh is the author of Tapping the Power of Personalized Learning: A Roadmap for School Leaders, focused on helping principals and other educational leaders to engage their staffs in designing and implementing personalized learning ecosystems. He also is a co-author of Five Levers to Improve Learning: How to Prioritize for Powerful Results in Your School. Dr. Rickabaugh serves on the board of the Wisconsin Education Business Roundtable. He also provides support and consultation to several other organizations and agencies.
Using Data to Lead Innovation
Building Capacity for Continuous School Improvement
Presenter: Bradley J. Geise
Date: Two-day event – January 10 & 11, 2023 – 8:30 am-3:30 pm
Audience: District/Building Administrators, Department Supervisors, Grade-Level and Lead Facilitators, Instructional Tech/Academic Coaches/Specialists
Details:
- 12 Act 48 hours + lunch included
- IU13 Districts: $350/person
- Non IU13 Districts: $425/person
Session Description:
This interactive session will provide an overview of the data analysis for Continuous School Improvement work that can lead their schools to understanding what needs to change in order to get different results. WHY data are important to continuous school improvement, WHAT data are important to Continuous School Improvement, and HOW to analyze it will be covered. A framework along with other tools and resources for implementation will be provided. Specific content will include multiple measures of data, how to pull all the data pieces together to improve learning, how to use data and staff engagement to inspire a shared vision, how to connect strategic planning to the shared vision, and how to evaluate improvement efforts.
Session Outcomes
– Develop a common approach, understanding, and language for improvement by utilizing the Continuous School Improvement framework and multiple measures of data.
– Build capacity to facilitate data analysis for Continuous School Improvement, engaging multiple measures of data throughout application of the entire framework.
– Explore the leadership context relative to data analysis for Continuous School Improvement, such as inspiring focus on shared vision over compliance, the importance of an innovative mindset, etc.
– Specific focus on practically applying tools and resources to dig deeper into the relationship between data analysis, improving school programs and processes, and creating a shared mission and vision.
Brad Geise has over 30 years of experience facilitating the use of data for Continuous School Improvement with Education for the Future, a 501(c)(3) non-profit initiative at California State University, Chico.
To help fulfill their mission to build the capacity of learning organizations to use data to improve teaching and learning, they have chronicled their work in 22 books over 27 years. They believe data analysis, with a strong shared vision, is necessary for true improvement to take place. Their work is focused on comprehensive data analysis for Continuous School Improvement, engagement and facilitation, systemic improvement, strategies for effective leaders, and long-term capacity building with learning organizations both small and large, nationally and internationally.
To further the work of using data for school improvement, Brad has authored and contributed to book publications, white papers, software applications, and a wide variety of tools and resources for the effective engagement of data. To help educators build the capacity to analyze data for improvement, Brad provides workshops and conference sessions, designs and facilitates long-term implementation plans, conducts Data Institutes, hosts webinars and other online learning sessions, and directs comprehensive data services to inform Continuous School Improvement.
Brad’s wife, Beth, is an elementary school teacher and they have three children—Ben, Ella Jean, and Anna.
