Our industry’s ongoing experimentation with personalized learning has seen some interesting (even troubling ) twists and turns as educators, industry leaders, and policy-makers try to sort out a common definition of what we mean by it and a set of best practices that captures what it looks like in action. As with many things in education, it is fair to say that we might be making this simple concept into something much more complicated (even controversial) than is necessary. In fact, maybe our parameters around personalized learning should remain fluid as long as our actions begin and end with valuing each child as a person, and providing each one a learning path that is unique unto themselves. In fact, with the lives of so many…
