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Personalized Learning update

Marshalltown Learning Academy (MLA)

18 NOV 2019 MSCD Board of Education

MCSD Mission Statement

We develop learners who have the knowledge, skills, and positive mindset to successfully pursue a meaningful future through personalized learning experiences.

Marshalltown Learning Academy (MLA)

MLA is an at‐risk, non‐conventional learning program of the school district, serving students in grades 9‐12 in a highly personalized learning environment. 100+ students 4.25 FTE Core Teachers 1.00 FTE Business/Careers/Work‐based learning/electives 1.75 FTE Special Education Teachers .375 ELL Teacher Secretary/Admin

Features of MLA

• Semester is defined by a set of standards to be mastered and not a

function of time

• Same credit requirements and graduation requirements 9‐12 across

the district (students earn a MCSD diploma)

• Blended learning provides flexibility and access and content on‐

demand

• Work‐based learning
• Industry credentialing (recent additions below)
• CPR/AED/First Aid
• Commercial Driver’s License with Iowa Valley Continuing Ed
• Building apprenticeship and pre‐apprenticeship programs
• Nurse Aid
• Meat Cutting
• Access to dual credit and CTE dual credit courses
• STEM INNOVATOR and BIZ INNOVATOR

Learning is constant; time is an instructional variable

• Educational psychologist and researcher

Benjamin Bloom concluded: We are expressing the view that, given sufficient time and appropriate types of help, 95% of students … can learn a subject up to a high level of

• mastery. We are convinced that the grade of ‘A’ as

an index of mastery of a subject can, under appropriate conditions, be achieved by up to 95%

• f the students in a class. (p. 4).

http://corwin‐connect.com/2017/02/new‐direction‐development‐rubrics/

What is blended learning?

The definition of blended learning is a formal education program in which a student learns:

• at least in part through online learning, with some element of

student control over time, place, path, and/or pace;

• at least in part in a supervised brick‐and‐mortar location away

from home;

• and the modalities along each student’s learning path within a

course or subject are connected to provide an integrated learning experience.

Source: “Blended Learning.” Christensen Institute, 2018, www.christenseninstitute.org/blended‐learning/.

Work-based learning

Why work-based learning?

Work-based Learning Clearinghouse

Some MLA students go to four-year colleges, but many more do not.

Graduate… with a plan

Primary acquisition of knowledge and skills through instruction or study outside of the traditional classroom methodology

• Linked to Iowa Core standards, usually in multiple domains
• Guided, quasi‐independent study through private instruction,

performing groups, internships, apprenticeships, non‐traditional courses, online courses

• Students demonstrate new knowledge, skills, or competencies
• Stretches student creativity and leverages outside resources/expertise
• Linkages to career pathways and student interests
• Time, hours, mode, and method are flexible (weekends, school break

times, evenings, summers, are all in play.)

One of MLA’s tools: Personalized Extended Learning Opportunity (PELO)

Questions

Resources

• https://www.edelements.com/blog (Personalized

Learning/Blended Learning)

• Blended Learning and Personalizing Education (video link)
• Blended Learning defined (video link)
• Defining and Integrating Blended, Personalized and

Competency Based Education

• Blended Learning and classroom learning
• Blended Learning further explained
• New Direction in the development of rubrics

Resources (2)

• Blended learning innovation
• School‐wide expectations for learning
• Mastery Learning principles
• Future Ready Iowa Overview (linked)
• Iowa Work‐Based Learning Guide (linked)
• Commercial Driver License credential program (linked)
• Red Cross First AID/CPR/AED Certification opportunity (linked)