Site Level Conditions Guide
A comprehensive guide on what must be true at a school site to enable educators and learners to realize the principles of personalized learning.
Personalized learning has the potential to empower learners to lead successful and fulfilling lives, yet shifting teaching and learning practices are significant undertakings.
Schools, systems, and their many stakeholders have voiced a need for clarity on what personalized learning entails at both the classroom and site levels, an articulation of capacities and mindsets needed to implement new personalized learning practices, and confidence that the changes they are making will positively impact outcomes for learners.
Conditions at a school site can either help or hinder educators from taking actions necessary to positively impact learners’ experiences and equitable outcomes.
The Site Level Conditions guide documents the set of conditions consistently present in effective personalized learning sites. This resource helps schools create a common language, set goalposts for growth, and prompt teams to build toward an environment that would enact personalized learning.
The conditions are based on 10+ years of experience at Lindsay Unified School District, Summit Public Schools, and 300+ Summit Learning implementations nationally, as well as Transcend’s experience with innovative schools across the country. The conditions are most relevant for site leaders looking to shift toward or deepen personalized learning at their schools, as well as system leaders looking to support these transitions.
