Personalize+Learning+Environment+and+instructional+process

1. Dr. Nettie Legters discusses the different ways of personalizing the learning environments for secondary school students.Create environments for students which engage them and meet their needsWays to personalize: "Take large schools and break them down into smaller units" -- create small learning communities such as career academies 2. Todd Whiteman, Principal at Foxfire Center for Student Success (OH) **Building a Personalized Culture Using the Five Big Rocks / 5 founding values ** Staff needs to care about students unconditionally, many students don't know what caring looks like. Most important we need to get students to care about themselves.Relationships are very important between staff-students-parents:"positive postcards" teachers are required to send home two a week, with messages such as your doing a good job! One of the two has to be to a student who is struggling, can write something like "I understand what’s going on," "I know things aren't easy at home right now,"Have to be very flexible, treat each individual student as an individual
 * Doing What Works: Personalizing learning environment and instructional process **
 * Create small learning communities, designed around student interests and faculty strengths, also availability of supports
 * provide advisories
 * Form interdisciplinary teams, who are responsible for //trouble-shooting //
 * Use flexible scheduling
 * Promote extra-curricular activities
 * Look for data and information about your students before they arrive in your class
 * create a summer bridge program
 * ‍ ****Doing what Works: Learning Environment **
 * 1) **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">core values **
 * 2) **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">wellness **
 * 3) **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Communication process **
 * 4) **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Building relationships, celebrating success **
 * 5) **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">non-academics barriers kids face **

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">These interviews can be found on the [|Doing What Works]website.