Directions: This month, you are asked to submit one lesson that demonstrates a personalized learning experience using any of the tools or strategies listed below. Your submission should include the differentiation or personalization tool used, lesson objective/goal, photos and/or videos demonstrating student engagement and learning, and a very brief reflection about how that informed your instruction or allowed you to further personalize instruction.

The goal is to showcase how students are given agency, choice, or targeted support—whether through branching pathways, adaptive content, or reflective feedback loops. Emphasis should be placed on how personalization informed instruction and supported student growth.

🧭 Personalized Learning Tools & Pathways

• 🌳 Branching Google Forms

  • Create differentiated paths based on student responses, mastery checks, or interests

  • Use conditional logic to guide students toward remediation, enrichment, or extension activities

  • Highlight how branching informed your instructional decisions

  • Here's a very brief overview of using the "Go to section based on answer" feature of Google Forms to make your form branch, but your DLS can also help you: Show questions based on answers

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• 🥾 Canvas Mastery Paths

  • Design multiple learning routes aligned to student readiness or assessment data

  • Provide targeted supports, practice, or enrichment through pathway assignments

  • Show how mastery data shaped next steps for students

  • This Canvas Community Guide, How do I use Mastery Paths in course modules?, goes in to detail, but your DLS can also help you with this!

• 📃 Choice Boards

  • Offer flexible options that allow students to choose how they engage with content or demonstrate understanding

  • Balance choice with clear learning targets and success criteria

  • Highlight student voice and ownership in the learning process

  • This TCEA blog post

  • Links to an external site.

  •  is an oldie but a goodie for choice board ideas

• 🎯 QSSSA or Pear Deck-Informed Instruction

  • Share a lesson that uses QSSSA to gather student thinking and adjust instruction in real time

  • Or reflect on takeaways from a Pear Deck lesson and explain how student responses informed your next lesson or instructional moves

  • Emphasize how student feedback shaped personalized learning decisions

  • Check out the Seidlitz Education Blog

  • Links to an external site.

  •  or check in with your DLS for more details about QSSSA

• ⚡ Progress Learning or Amira

• • Leverage platforms that adapt instruction based on student responses and performance data

  • Use insights from Progress Learning or Amira to identify student strengths, gaps, and learning patterns

  • Include screenshots, reports, or student artifacts (as appropriate) to show how these insights guided your next instructional steps

📝 Reflection Expectations

• After implementing your lesson, submit a brief reflection--we know you're a busy professional!--explaining at least one of the following:

  • How student responses, choices, or performance informed your instructional decisions

  • What adjustments you made (or would make next) to better support individual learners

  • How the learning pathway helped students navigate content with purpose and direction

The canvas assignment for the The Custom Compass 🧭: Personalized Learning Pathways opens January 6, and it should be submitted by 11:59pm on January 29th. 

Physical Badges will be delivered by your DLS during February.