Barbara Bray - How to Personalize Learning: A Practical Guide for Getting Started and Going Deeper

Many teachers are familiar with UDL, and they may want to try it in their classrooms, but they just dont know how to get started. With this book, educators dont just learn about UDL, they do UDL as they complete a number of activities designed to get them thinking about their most deeply held beliefs about learning and ease them into a new role as the lead learner in their classrooms.

Luis Prez

Inclusive Learning Consultant

Independent Consultant

St. Petersburg, Florida

This book provides teachers with a tool to refocus and keep their best practices while helping them to identify those areas of instruction where shifts need to occur, and the how to to make it happen! So inspiring, engaging, and motivationaland the companion website for technology and sharing is awesome! How to Personalize Learning is a users guide designed by experts who personally and professionally relate; Bray and McClaskey simply Get it.

Diana Petschauer

Assistive Technology Professional, CEO

Assistive Technology for Education & Access4Employment

Wolfeboro Falls, New Hampshire

Bray and McClaskey are arguably the foremost champions for personalizing learning. How to Personalize Learning: A Practical Guide for Getting Started and Going Deeper will be the compendium to personalize learning and a guiding light for educators as they navigate their journey with their learners to personalize learning. The tools, rich examples, and insights included in the book will be instrumental in the transformation of students into learners.

Pam Lowe

Author: Missouri Then & Now: Activity Book; University of Missouri Press

Educator and Education Consultant/Coach

As the title suggests, Kathleen and Barbara have prepared some really solid, practical how to guidelines for educators looking to understand and achieve the promise of personalizing learning.

Steve Nordmark

Chief Academic Officer, Knovation, Inc.

Cincinnati, Ohio

This book will provide you and your team the steps toward personalizing learning for your students. It involves your input throughout with activities that are built around personalized learning principles.

Kevin McLaughlin,

Deputy Head Teacher, Farndon Fields Primary School

Leicester, United Kingdom

Your learning journey about creating personalized learning environments just became so much easier! Bray and McClaskeys practical guide provides a clear and well signposted path forward to transforming any learners journey. I found the book highly readable, incredibly practical, and full of useful strategies to move educators from just discussing ideas about personalized learning to actively implementing and growing a personalized learning culture. It really is THE Rosetta Stone of personalized learning. No other resource so deftly distills the WHAT and the WHY with the HOW TO of personalized learning.

Greg Alchin

Inclusive Design Consultant, Alchin Consulting

Orange, New South Wales, Australia

This guide provides actionable steps for all educators, from the busy main office to the crowded classroom, to develop the culture, expertise, and strategies needed for truly personalized learning. Once implementation is rolling out, Bray and McClaskey provide guidance for professional reflection and growth along the way. Personalization provides benefits to all stakeholders, and this book helps all stakeholders understand their roles and how they will grow through the experience.

Kerry Gallagher

Digital Learning Specialist, St. Johns Prep

Director of K12 Education, ConnectSafely.org

Haverhill, Massachusetts

This book is a transformative treatise for all levels on catalyzing enhanced efficacyfrom community culture to the classroom learnerso that personalized learning becomes a reality in even the most traditional classrooms. Whether you are the community member who dares to think differently or the classroom teacher that knows deep down that something just isnt working, How to Personalize Learning: A Practical Guide for Getting Started and Going Deeper is the seminal book to get you started on your personalized learning journey.

Patrick Riley

Cognitive Coach, Green River Regional Educational Cooperative

kid-FRIENDLy, Race to the Top-District Grant

Kentucky

How to Personalize Learning is the book every school needs their teachers to read. The authors take teachers on an enlightening journey where they reflect on how they uniquely learn. This book also is a guide with practical ideas and many resources to help teachers make learning accessible and engaging to all students. This book is for the teacher with the big heart who wants to ensure all students leave wanting to continue their learning journeys.

Shelly Sanchez Terrell

Teacher, International Speaker, and

Author of The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers, http://www.shellyterrell.com/

Bray and McClaskey have done it again! This book provides such essential explanations and tools that any person reading it should be able to immediately construct their personalized instruction and learning environment. The multiple options for activities help teachers apply their personal preferences to more deeply connect with this work. This book even further demonstrates how important it is to make learning personal.

Kecia Ray, EdD

Executive Director, Center for Digital Education

Nashville, Tennessee

Bray and McClaskey designed this book with teachers in mind. As with Make Learning Personal, the book is a treasure trove of resources, studies, and sound practices. Dont go it alonebuy copies for your personal learning community and enjoy the conversations. This is a must-have if your school is moving to competency based education and blended learning.

Andy Littlefield

Co-Director of Technology

Online Educator

Exeter Region Cooperative School District, New Hampshire

How to Personalize Learning: A Practical Guide for Getting Started and Going Deeper is a rich resource for any in-service or pre-service teacher, school or district administrator, special educator, or parent. In my more than 25 years of working with teachers and with school administrators, what I most appreciate about this guide are the numerous case studies and tangible examples of how the practices work in the real world.

Dr. Cynthia Sistek-Chandler

Associate Professor

Teacher Education, Sanford College of Education

National University, California

In this compact and powerful book, Barbara Bray and Kathleen McClaskey offer teaching teams, school leadership groups, and whole faculties a way to engage learners in managing their own learning. How to Personalize Learning creates a comprehensive process for managing a long and complex process, preparing all learners to assess themselves, build skills, work toward personal and academic goals, and build the skills and knowledge that help them move toward their goals. This is a highly practical book that forms a reliable foundation for empowering a school community striving to make our schools work for all learners.

John H. Clarke

Professor Emeritus, University of Vermont

Author of Personalized Learning: Student-designed Pathways to High School Graduation

Barbara Bray and Kathleen McClaskey are leaders in how to personalize learning for all learners. How to Personalize Learning: A Practical Guide for Getting Started and Going Deeper