Westside Personalized: A Personalized Learning Podcast

Kevin shares first his personalized classroom model as he has built it out in his secondary math class, and in the back half of the episode, Kevin delves into the design process, implementation, and also provides his reflections on his first experience with gamifying a personalized learning unit. Listeners, key... Read More

In this episode, Paul and I discuss the practice of differentiating instructional delivery methods and the process by which Paul facilitated those various options in order to meet learners through the medium from which they learn best. Paul shares how he was first exposed to this idea as a part of our... Read More

Four years ago, Lance was a part of our district's first personalized learning cohort, and so in this episode, Lance shares from his wealth of experiences with incorporating personalized learning strategies into his classroom. Specifically, Lance breaks down how his first steps to implementing greater voice and choice options for... Read More

What is a PLP and how can it support learning and personalized practices in the classroom? This podcast is a fun deep dive detailing Mikayla's doctoral work on the topic of PLP development and implementation, and as she shares her expertise on this topic, we also discuss our PLP Team's... Read More

For our district elementary teachers, math time is often the launching point for developing personalized practices in the classroom. In this podcast, Hillside 4th-grade teacher Erica Riffner broadens our scope as she shares her experiences with personalized learning in math, reading, writing, and in a variety of other aspects of... Read More

In this episode, I sit down with WMS English teacher John Horton and discuss the process by which the 8th-grade English team develops their semester-long, student-driven inquiry project. The team supports learners as each individual student begins by developing an authentic question that they then research and discuss until it evolves into... Read More

Richard Christie, 6th-grade educator at Prairie Lane Elementary, attended our PL training day and took away his own creative vision for implementing flexible learning spaces into his classroom. In this episode, Mr. Christie shares his flexible space model and more importantly notes the academic benefits that came along with this... Read More

For this episode, I interviewed the editors of multiple WHS journalism publications with two goals in mind. The first goal was to share the story of how one student took on the sole responsibility of creating an entirely new website for our high school journalism program. The second goal was... Read More

If you’re interested in games in education, if you’re interested in personalization, if you’re interested in the social studies discipline, — I mean — if you appreciate innovative approaches to education on any level at all, you’re going to love this episode! Join educator Jon Preister and I as we... Read More

This episode walks listeners through the entire process, from design to implementation to after unit reflection, of the development of this immigration unit with educator Mel Rice. Her vision of personalizing the learning experience by affording her students a variety of choices to allow them to explore the unit content... Read More