"a school cannot change when the students’ voices are not heard” - Judy Beard, Principal, Whittemore Park Middle School, Horry County, SC

100 Young Men of Luella!

LMS PTO honored bus drivers with a breakfast. They are the first and last staff to see our kids each day. Thank you!

HCMS teachers visited LMS to see BL and the beginnings of PL. Together we are re-thinking and reimagining the way we do school.

BL and PL are more about depth and rigor and engagement and mastery than moving kids quickly through standards so we can graduate them at 14

Those who would rethink, reimagine and redesign the way they do school must grasp the significance and enormity of that work.

Raising standards,depth,and rigor are the right work, but we must equip Ss with requisite learning and metacognitive mindsets to reach them.

Luella Middle School Ts sharing strategies for personalized, blended lrng at the Math L.I.F.E. conference! Great job!! #hcs2015

Staff from Luella MS and ES are headed to visit Rocketship and Katherine Smith schools in San Jose. Excited to see how they do BL and PL.

BL at Rocketship: Culture drives everything and without the right culture you can't have innovation, just words."

The Katherine Smith ES in SJ, CA is an amazing PBL School!PBL pervasive from K-6.Real world applic and real learning.

LMS visiting Summit HS in Redwood City, CA. Learning about playlists, changing T and S and P roles, and the Activate learning platform.

LMS visited Bulldog Tech in San Jose.PBL plus ELA/SS,M,and SC/PE blocks create a great culture that empowers kids.

LMS visited High Tech HS, MS, and ES in SD, CA. pervasive PBL and M/SC and ELA/SS blocks w art integrated inspire Ss

Henry County Schools,Georgia,has a comprehensive vision for implementing PL: S profiles, tech enabled, PBL, competency-based, 21st C skills

"If students don't have some level of choice and voice over their learning, then it is not personalized." - Anthony Kim

Research: if info is not presented AND processed in an integrated way that makes sense, the brain will reject it. Makes sense.

PL is not just about MOWR or depth or rigor.It is also about, and perhaps most importantly, S agency: S choice and voice

LMS has finished its final presentation for an innovation grant for a competency-based, flexible learning environment

LMS Ts examining our biannual GAPSS review and brainstorming how to move to the next level for each of 48 standards.