Westside Personalized: A Personalized Learning Podcast

Westside Community Schools is committed to the implementation of personalized learning district-wide and to the personalized movement across the country in education. In this podcast, we are proud to share our personalized experiences and reflections.

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Voice, Choice & a PL Model in the Middle School Classroom (ep. 15)

Posted February 28, 2018 • 00:26:35

Four years ago, Lance was a part of our district's first personalized learning cohort, and so in this episode, Lance shares from his wealth of experiences...

PL Across the Elementary Content Areas (Ep. 13)

Posted February 7, 2018 • 00:27:16

For our district elementary teachers, math time is often the launching point for developing personalized practices in the classroom. In this podcast,...

The Personalized Process of Pursuing Authentic Questions (Ep. 12)

Posted January 31, 2018 • 00:27:20

In this episode, I sit down with WMS English teacher John Horton and discuss the process by which the 8th-grade English team develops their semester-long, student-driven...

Flexible Space That Enhances Learning and Student Agency (Ep. 11)

Posted January 24, 2018 • 00:18:44

Richard Christie, 6th-grade educator at Prairie Lane Elementary, attended our PL training day and took away his own creative vision for implementing...

Student Agency in Journalism: Characteristics of a Student-Centered Culture (Ep. 10)

Posted January 17, 2018 • 00:49:16

For this episode, I interviewed the editors of multiple WHS journalism publications with two goals in mind. The first goal was to share the story of...