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Personalized Learning with Matt & Courtney
by Matthew Shea & Courtney Belolan
A podcast dedicated to the do-do's and don't-do's of personalized learning. We are irreverent, yet unabashedly authentic. If you want to learn a little about personalized learning for your classroom/school/district, and are willing to challenge your assumptions, then Matt & Courtney can help. Agree with us, challenge us, debate with us. It's education. Personalized.
Episodes
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Andragogy and Teacher Surveys!
Matt learns a new word while he and Cee talk about a new survey about professional learning. 1. Here is the link to the Corwin page. 2. Or, here is the full survey. 3. OR, here is the summary.
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We're back!
We're back! After a four-year hiatus, Matt and Cee are back with their thoughts about personalized learning. In this episode, they discuss their biggest do-do's they've noticed over the past four years, then get into some major policy shifts since 2022. 1. Kohn's Zone! 2. Florida's Parental…
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S7 Ep 17: Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen
Matt and Courtney wrap up seven seasons of podcasts with a remembrance of all the biggest do-do's they've dropped in the past few years. Wait....
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S7 Ep16: How do we approach summer PD to keep momentum?
Matt and Courtney talk about what to do when designing summer PD sessions for teachers.
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S7 Ep15: What are the entry points into personalized learning?
Matt and Courtney talk about some entry points into personalized learning - it's different for everyone!
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S7 Ep14: Summer school!
What could summer school be like? Here are some ideas from Matt and Courtney.
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S7 Ep13: How do we end the year with motivation?
Matt and Courtney talk about the struggle of ending the year appropriately with motivation for our learners AND teachers.
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S7 Ep12: Strategies for using Assessment for Learning
Matt and Courtney return with some strategies for using assessment for learning in the classroom - including some cool KISS faces!
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S7 Ep11: Assessment FOR Learning
Matt and Courtney go full-on retro - bell-bottoms and everything! We talk about assessment for learning, and how it is needed more than ever coming out of (?) the pandemic.
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S7 Ep10: How do we deal with scheduling issues?
Matt and Courtney are back with a conundrum of sorts: what do we do with scheduling, and why is it so frustrating? We don't have all the answers this time (ask the kids!), but we do have some things to think about. Find our parking lot here. Thanks for listening!
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S7 Ep9: What are 4's, anyway?
Matt and Courtney talk about one of their favorite topics they have a love/hate relationship with: 4's! Fortunately, they have a plan of what works and what doesn't;t when it comes to creating 4.0 level opportunities.
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S7 Ep8: Why are scales better than standards?
Matt and Courtney talk about scales versus standards, and how they stack up against each other. Standards are great, and scales make them greater. Oh, and Courtney might be Anna Delvey.
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S7 Ep7: Project-based learning frameworks and how to use them
Matt and Courtney discuss what project-based learning is, and how to use some frameworks. As we told you last week, there is research out there to show PBL works! We talked about PBLWorks.org and the High Quality Project Based Learning frameworks, and mentioned our favorite way to get questions...
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S7 Ep6: Project-based learning - does it work?
Matt and Courtney talk about an overview of one of the studies in the Edutopia article we've been discussing - project-based learning! Link: High Quality Project Based Learning
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S7 Ep5: What SEL opportunities are out there?
Matt and Courtney discuss their favorite ways to think about SEL in the classroom that you can do today!
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S7 Ep4: Does intentionally teaching SEL lead to better outcomes for all? (Spoiler: YES!)
Matt and Courtney return with another study from Edutopia's 10 Most Significant Education Studies of 2021. We talk about the role of intentionally teaching social and emotional skills, and show how it affects learners both during and after their school life. Find us at all things PLearnMC!!
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S7 Ep3: Strategies for pre-assessment
Matt and Courtney return with some strategies for pre-assessment opportunities.
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S7 Ep2: Learning from your mistakes
Matt and Courtney dig into the first educational study from the Edutopia list of the top 10 of 2021. This study is named "Pretesting versus posttesting: the pedagogical benefits of ". Rolls right off the tongue. Matt asks lots of questions, while Courtney talks it through with him. Next week…
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Triumphant Return of the PLearnMC pod!
Well, we took a lot of time off. We have had many many things happen in the autumn of 2021, as the rest of the world happened to us. We have returned, and you won't be able to get rid of us. We look at overviews of three recent education studies, and plan on getting deeper into them over the next...
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S7 Ep 1: Starting the school year! Tips to help find out where learners are.
Matt and Courtney are BACK with some tips and ideas for how to address learning needs that may have arisen over the past year and a half. What formative assessment strategies can teachers use to help find out where learners are - in a systematic manner? Music by ">Lesfm from " style="font-family:...
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Crossover special with the Maine Education Matters pod!
Matt and Courtney are here with a summer sendoff as they prepare for the new year. They are joined by their good friends at the Maine Education Matters podcast to talk about why they started a podcast and what keeps them going. Follow the MEM pod wherever you listen to this pod!
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Interview! Human-Centered Learning Systems with Katherine Prince and Abbie Forbus Everett of KnowledgeWorks
Matt and Courtney interview Katherine Prince, co-author of the publication Envisioning Human-Centered Learning Systems, and Abbie Forbus Everett of KnowledgeWorks. They discuss the vision for the future of learning, the key takeaways, and much more. Download it at the link above!
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S6 Ep29: Summer interlude! What school supplies should a personalized classroom have?
Hint: lots of sticky notes. Also, two other great ideas from Courtney, and Matt shows his age when talking about Trapper Keepers.
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S6 Ep28: "Don't straw-man, dude."
Matt and Courtney talk about reflections on the last year and a half of crazy times, and where we can go from here. It's our season finale, but we'll be around with some intermittent episodes during the summer before coming back in mid-August for the new school year. Thanks to some inspiration…
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S6 Ep27: Courtney's Top 10 Engagement Strategies!
Matt helps Courtney with her upcoming presentation about engagement strategies. Spoiler: this is how we did things when we worked together in-person. We both miss it, but thought it would be a good way for you listeners to get a glimpse of how we do things. Let us know what you think on our…
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S6 Ep 26: Learner-centered interviewing questions
It's that time of year! Whether you are interviewing for a new position or interviewing others for positions in your school, the question is how would I get the point across that I am a learner-centered person/school, and I am looking for the right fit? Fortunately, Matt and Courtney have some...
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S6 Ep25: What is the best way to include instruction that addresses marginalized sectors of the world?
Do we address this in an interdisciplinary way, or as stand-alone dedicated units? Are these insulting discussions? Spoiler alert: we don't really know, but we think the discussion is a good one, and we will be following up on this topic in future episodes.
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S6 Ep24: Matt and Courtney fight on the pod!
Well, kind of. They discuss learning progressions without grades, and how you can show growth for learners while doing that - or can you? Let us know who won the fight on any social platform with #plearnmc
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S6 Ep23: Listener question - how to help define competency?
Matt and Courtney answer a listener question about defining competency. We offer ways to break down the existing framework into something more meaningful for both teachers and learners.
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S6 Ep22: What. Is. Mastery? Is it achievable, or even possible?
Matt and Courtney respond to some media about mastery of standards, and how some people reject mastery in favor of the older system. You know how we feel about this.
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S6 Ep21: How to work with scoring scales in the classroom
Matt and Courtney continue their "back to the beginning" talk with a good one - how do we use scoring scales appropriately in the classroom? And maybe even more importantly, how do we teach the teachers how to do this? We call back to the Yes/No game we did last year as a way to introduce this...
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S6 Ep20: Back to the beginning - why standards? And how do we write good ones?
Matt and Courtney go back to the beginning and talk what/how/WHY standards? Why are the three parts of a standard crucial to writing good ones? And how do we show that to teachers?
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S6 Ep19: Involving learners... all the way!
Matt and Courtney talk about how we occasionally disconnect what we do upfront with culture building with learners and the follow-through, especially trying to break down the barriers of teachers being always "the boss". Courtney offers up some easy and quick techniques on how to help break down...
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S6 Ep18: Roving Bands of Assessment Minstrels
Matt and Courtney come up with Gary Chapin's next band name while discussing better ways to think about large-scale assessment systems.
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S6 Ep17: How do we do professional learning so it sticks?
Matt and Courtney tackle the big question - how do we make professional learning stick? We have some answers, suggestions, and opinions. As always. Find us everywhere at PLearnMC! Some links we talked about: Committee of Ten; The Battle for Public Education (podcast series).
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S6 Ep16: Are we over-explaining personalized learning? And a challenge to our sister pod!
Matt and Courtney talk about personalized learning, but only using the most used ten hundred words. We think it might explain a lot about what it is and what it isn't. The inspiration came from the great xkcd, specifically this image: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/up_goer_five.png Maine Education...
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S6 Ep15: What do assignments look like in a personalized learning model?
Matt and Courtney talk about the mind-shift from work completion to learning. It's harder than you think, but there are some ways to help think this through to make it useful for you.
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S6 Ep14: Assessment and Learning is a Mobius Strip
Matt and Courtney ask what we need to know about what learners know. In that, we talk about how assessment and learning are a giant Mobius strip.
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S6 Ep 13: Don't make learner choice a super buffet.
Matt and Courtney talk about engagement, and how it is really about two things: motivation and participation. Matt pushes back a bit on this, but we get to talking about voice and choice, and how to start using it with your learners TODAY! Oh, and super buffets. You'll hear.
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S6 Ep12: How do we effectively incorporate the arts into our teaching and learning?
Matt and Courtney are back with another episode, this time about how to effectively incorporate the arts into our teaching and learning. Watch out for insurrections while you're at it!
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S6 Ep11: How do we frame the hard conversations on a larger level?
Matt and Courtney are still processing the insurrection at the Capital last week, but they discuss how to frame those hard conversations we have to have with kids, and what it looks like at a school/district level. Let us know what you think on our parking lot at plearnmc.com or tweet at us...
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S6 Ep10: Hard conversations with kids - now more than ever
After winter break, Matt & Courtney had a pod session planned today - then the riots broke out in DC. Insurrection and sedition didn't stop us from recording, however, and we talk about how we can talk to kids about the harder conversations, especially in the world we live in. Courtney has some...
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S6 Ep9: A review of the first semester fo distance learning, and what's next
Matt and Courtney have been busy lately, but we are back! We review the first semester of 2020 and how it has gone in this time of distance/hybrid learning.
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S6 Ep8: Profile of a Successful Distance Learner
Matt and Courtney return from their election-induced stress times with the introduction of the Profile of a Successful Distance Learner, developed this fall by the Maine Curriculum Leaders Association. They discuss how it is a document to be used to start conversations with teachers, learners,...
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Election interlude
Matt and Courtney made it through election day, but it's obviously still going. Just a few minutes of therapy from us about what to do next..... Hang in there.
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S6 Ep7: Attendance - how to go plaid.
Matt and Courtney return with a conversation around student attendance, some things that have been happening since March and into the fall, and how to go plaid.
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S6 Ep6: Parking lot questions answered!
Matt and Courtney are back with a mailbag! Post your own questions in our parking lot at plearnmc.com. Today's question: How do we set a reasonable bar for competency work when trying to hold students accountable in a "new normal" world?
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S6 Ep5: Use the damn moment!
Matt and Courtney return after a week off with a plea - use the damn moment! Education is different these days, we all know that. So this is the perfect time for us to make the system do what we want it to do - encourage learner agency; be standards-based, proficiency-based, or even...
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S6 Ep4: Portrait of a distance learner - what does this look like?
Matt and Courtney return with some talk about what a portrait of a distance learner looks like in this time of COVID, and what about schools keeping the hybrid model after the pandemic ends?
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S6 Ep3: Hard conversations in schools
Matt and Courtney return with a pod they've now done twice due to some amazing lack of recording skills by Matt. We talk about hard conversations in schools these days - especially about race. It's a good one - and we've done it twice.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A podcast dedicated to the do-do's and don't-do's of personalized learning. We are irreverent, yet unabashedly authentic. If you want to learn a little about personalized learning for your classroom/school/district, and are willing to challenge your assumptions, then Matt & Courtney can help. Agree with us, challenge us, debate with us. It's education. Personalized.
HOSTED BY
Matthew Shea & Courtney Belolan
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A podcast dedicated to the do-do's and don't-do's of personalized learning. We are irreverent, yet unabashedly authentic. If you want to learn a little about personalized learning for your classroom/school/district, and are willing to challenge your assumptions, then Matt & Courtney can help. Agree...
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