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Personalize: Meeting the Needs of All Learners with Eric Sheninger and Nicki Slaugh — Transformative Principal
In this bonus episode, originally recorded for Transformative Principal, Jethro Jones speaks with Eric Sheninger and Nicki Slaugh about their book Personalize: Meeting the Needs of All Learners. Hear about:
The power of Quest Academy
Retain teachers, retain students - how to keep kids there.
Free public school
Teenagers weren’t engaged.
PD time every Friday
Mastery Minutes
Beginning of day, tracker system.
Choice, voice, tracker data.
Curating evidence.
Culture
Self-pacing route vs. choice boards.
Removed points, extra credit, percentages,
Emerging, developing, mastering, extending
Prove-its…
The skinny
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