Bismarck Public Schools believes personalization honors who learners are, how they learn, and what they aspire to do.
DEFINITION:
Personalization is a relationship-based approach that provides learners with more choice in how they demonstrate mastery. Instruction is tailored for each learner’s culture, strengths, needs, and interests - including enabling voice and choice in what, how, when, and where they learn. Personalization empowers exploration, practice, agency, communication, creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and efficiency.
GOAL:
Every learner has access to personalized learning paths.
OBJECTIVES:
Foster skills and dispositions that support staff, student, and stakeholder engagement in personalized learning.
Identify alignment and clarify or revise inconsistencies in policy, infrastructure, curriculum, instruction, and professional development needed to systemically support personalized learning across the district.
Expand learning environments for all learners to include supports that accelerate personalized competency-based learning (i.e. blended learning, flexible time, multiple learning paths).
