You have engaged your stakeholders and developed a vision of your Portrait of a Graduate which includes transferable skills, knowledge, and dispositions. You have socialized the outcomes and created the poster to hang on the walls throughout the district. You have brought together your leadership team to monitor progress on implementation, prepare professional learning offerings, and align learnings to a strategic plan. And questions remain.
How can we bring the vision off the poster on the walls and bring it into our classrooms?
Join LiFT Learning and CBE Solutions for a session focused on how schools and districts can activate and operationalize their Portrait of A Graduate using core components of PCBL and digital portfolios that capture all types of learning. Participants will walk away with strategies, technology recommendations, and direct next steps to successfully operationalize your vision.

You have engaged your stakeholders and developed a vision of your Portrait of a Graduate which includes transferable skills, knowledge, and dispositions. You have socialized the outcomes and created the poster to hang on the walls throughout the district. You have brought together your leadership team to monitor progress on implementation, prepare professional learning offerings, and align learnings to a strategic plan. And questions remain.
How can we bring the vision off the poster on the walls and bring it into our classrooms?
Join LiFT Learning and CBE Solutions for a session focused on how schools and districts can activate and operationalize their Portrait of A Graduate using core components of PCBL and digital portfolios that capture all types of learning. Participants will walk away with strategies, technology recommendations, and direct next steps to successfully operationalize your vision.

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Based on the premise that all students can eventually (at their own speed) learn difficult material, this practice calls for all students to learn material at equivalently high (or mastery) levels. It often involves engaging in formative assessment processes and providing additional opportunities for students to learn content and skills.

Metacognition is thinking about thinking and for instructional purposes, includes methods to help students understand the way they learn and make decisions about strategies to approach future learning.

Microteaching is a video recording of a lesson made by an educator followed by a debriefing with colleagues. The lesson is collaboratively reviewed in order to improve the teaching and learning experience.

Each Mini Moves for Writers video teaches you how to use one professional writing move that will enhance your writing style|argumentation|voice|grammar|or organization. Check out just one to help you master a specific move|or watch multiple videos to make your writing into a professional masterpiece.

Learn how to personalize learning using technology! Utah teachers have a large amount of technology to explore and use in their classrooms. In this episode of the PCBL + Technology webinar series, learn how to utilize Adobe creative tools to support personalized, competency-based learning in your classroom.

Learn how to personalize learning using technology! Utah teachers have a large amount of technology to explore and use in their classrooms. In this episode of the PCBL + Technology webinar series, learn how to utilize Microsoft tools to support personalized, competency-based learning in your classroom.

Learn how to personalize learning using technology! Utah teachers have a large amount of technology to explore and use in their classrooms. In this episode of the PCBL + Technology webinar series, learn how to utilize Nearpod to support personalized, competency-based learning in your classroom.

Learn how to personalize learning using technology! Utah teachers have a large amount of technology to explore and use in their classrooms. Learn how to apply key technologies available to Utah teachers in the PCBL + Technology webinar series. This is the first of eight webinars in the PCBL + Technology series.

Learn how to personalize learning using technology! Utah teachers have a large amount of technology to explore and use in their classrooms. In this episode of the PCBL + Technology webinar series, learn how to utilize Utah's Online Library to support personalized, competency-based learning in your classroom.

Learn how to personalize learning using technology! Utah teachers have a large amount of technology to explore and use in their classrooms. In this episode of the PCBL + Technology webinar series, learn how to utilize eMedia to support personalized, competency-based learning in your classroom.

Peer Assessment requires students to communicate (either written, verbal or online) task-relevant feedback on the quality, value, or success of the work or performance of their peers. Peer assessment involves assessing or being assessed by peers, or both. Reliable peer assessment depends on the identification of clear outcomes and an understanding of the criteria used to reach an accurate evaluation.

Positive peer influence occurs when a peer influences other learners to do something positive or growth building. For example, peers who are committed to doing well in school or in sports can influence others to be more goal oriented. Similarly, peers who are kind, loyal or supportive, influence others to be the same.

Prior Ability and Achievement is based on the students’ previous learning experiences and how that learning influences, positively and negatively, upon new learning. The amount and quality of prior knowledge positively influences both knowledge acquisition and the ability to apply higher-order, problem solving skills.

When a teacher incorporates Problem-Solving Teaching in the classroom, it requires students to apply previously learned knowledge and skills to solve real problems and dilemmas. Problem solving typically involves developing an accurate understanding of a problem, presenting and discussing solution strategies, implementing the best strategy, reviewing the results and revising the strategy as needed. This critical thinking process requires additional skills including: a positive belief in one’s ability to solve problems, a willingness to engage in productive struggle demonstrating perseverance and creative problem solving, and the ability to examine one’s actions along the way.

Response to Intervention (RTI) aims to identify students who are making inadequate progress and provide them evidence based support to address learning and/or behavior needs. The goal of RTI is to intervene through targeted teaching interventions before students fall too far behind. RTI relies on teachers using data to measure student progress and provide just in time support to learners. RTI is not a special education program, but can help educators identify struggling learners who may qualify for special education services.

Scaffolded supports (for example, visual, verbal and written supports) are provided as temporary assistance to students so they can successfully complete tasks that they cannot yet do independently and with a high rate of success. Teachers model and scaffold steps or processes needed to understand content and concepts, apply skills, and complete tasks successfully and independently. Ongoing changes (e.g., pacing, examples, etc.) occur throughout the sequence based on student performance.

Self-directed learning is a strategy where the student takes charge of the learning, seeks out information and develops solutions with minimal or no aid by a teacher.