{"id":72386,"date":"2020-09-25T15:59:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T19:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=72386"},"modified":"2020-09-25T16:08:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T20:08:58","slug":"personalized-learning-is-special-education-and-the-time-is-now-phillips-krivickas-midles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/09\/25\/personalized-learning-is-special-education-and-the-time-is-now-phillips-krivickas-midles\/","title":{"rendered":"Personalized Learning Is Special Education and the Time Is Now [Phillips-Krivickas &#038; Midles]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettingsmart.com\/2020\/09\/personalized-learning-is-special-education-and-the-time-is-now\/?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Personalized Learning Is Special Education and the Time Is Now<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from gettingsmart.com by Karla Phillips-Krivickas and Rebecca Midles<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt <em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">(emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Educators have long recognized that the education strategies that work for students with additional needs would benefit all kids. These personalized learning strategies are, in fact, best practices for all students. <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Yet we continue to design our schools for the \u2018average\u2019 student. And then we wonder why there is so much frustration when we try to fit the proverbial square pegs into round holes.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">You may assume the line between general and special education is clear, but it is quite blurry. Special education was never intended to be a separate system. It was designed to facilitate access to general education. Unfortunately, disability labels can now act as fuzzy barriers separating those who qualify for individualized instruction and those who do not. And\u00a0this\u00a0is the problem: <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">the one size fits all approach to education<\/span><\/strong> doesn\u2019t account for students\u2019 differences or preferences\u00a0<em>unless they have a disability.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Exactly the experience our family has had as well. The K-12 education train stops for no one and moves quickly.\u00a0 To *^*^ with mastery. To *^*^ with the love of learning &#8212; or even the slightest liking of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-70511\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Design-renderings-of-future-Olympic-trains-1024x510.jpg\" alt=\"K-12 education in America is a like a quickly moving train that stops for no one.\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Design-renderings-of-future-Olympic-trains-1024x510.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Design-renderings-of-future-Olympic-trains-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Design-renderings-of-future-Olympic-trains-768x383.jpg 768w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Design-renderings-of-future-Olympic-trains.jpg 1188w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Let us not come out of this crisis with the same systems and ways of doing things. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettingsmart.com\/2020\/09\/15-invention-opportunities-in-learning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Time for greater innovation, experimentation, and invention to take place!<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personalized Learning Is Special Education and the Time Is Now &#8212; from gettingsmart.com by Karla Phillips-Krivickas and Rebecca Midles Excerpt (emphasis DSC): Educators have long recognized that the education strategies that work for students with additional needs would benefit all kids. These personalized learning strategies are, in fact, best practices for all students. Yet we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,72,343,347,119,46,74,102,7,838,382,44,393,66,89,50,321,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility-udl","category-daniel-s-christian","category-education","category-education-reform","category-instructional-design","category-k-12-related","category-leadership","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-neurodivergent-special-needs","category-pace-of-change","category-student-teachingteacher-education","category-student-related","category-teachers","category-teaching-learning","category-united-states","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72386"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72390,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72386\/revisions\/72390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}