Giving Compass' Take:

• Julia Freeland Fisher shares three ways to make more time for personalized learning to ensure that students get the help and support that they need. 

• How can funder best support personalized elarning efforts in districts and schools?

• Learn about the benefits of personalized learning.

1. Rethink scheduling: Schools should seek out new processes for building schedules and tools that can help sort out where students and teachers should spend their time.

2. Streamline administrative tasks: Besides just delivering content, technology can also serve to streamline administrative tasks that often fall to teachers. For example, everything from taking attendance to rostering students can take up precious educator time.

3. Consider blended learning as a tool to rethink teacher time: Blended learning can help schools to reorganize how they use time in meaningful ways. By shifting some content delivery online, some blended-learning models can allow teachers to reconsider how best to spend face-to-face time in the classroom—perhaps allowing teachers to deliver more small-group or one-on-one instruction, perhaps allowing them to lead students in projects, or even allowing them to grade individual performance assessments to provide students with meaningful feedback.

Read the full article about finding time for personalized learning by Julia Freeland Fisher at Christensen Institute.