Personalized Learning - A Conversation with Allison Zmuda

Allison Zmuda is an author, education consultant with 19 years of expertise specializing in curriculum, assessment, and instruction and curator of learningpersonalized.com an online community for teacher-leaders, administrators and students. Allison recently co-founded Habits Personalized with longtime friend and colleague, Bena Kallick, a merging of personalized learning with Habits of Mind. She also co-founded Learning Sets with longtime friend and colleague, Heidi Hayes Jacobs. Learning Sets are collections of content with targeted actions to engage, examine, & demonstrate with corresponding tools, tasks, and resources. Allison also recently became a co-director for the Institute for Habits of Mind, founded by Art Costa and Bena Kallick, adding a new perspective to a longstanding brand. She has co-authored 11 books, her most recent being How to Leverage Personalized Learning in the Classroom (Fresh Grade), co-authored with Jill Thompson, The Quest for Learning (Solution Tree), co-authored with Marie Alcock and Michael Fisher and released October 2017, and Students at the Center: Personalized Learning and Habits of Mind (ASCD) co-authored with Bena Kallick, which was released in January 2017. Allison also wrote Learning Personalized: The Evolution of the Contemporary Classroom with Diane Ullman and Greg Curtis. You can follow Allison on Twitter (@allison_zmuda), Facebook, LinkedIn, or reach her via e-mail at [email protected].