“Personalized Learning” Can Helps Rural Schools Address Their Unique Needs and Challenges, Says New Report

To prepare all students for college and a career, many schools and districts nationwide have turned to “personalized learning,” a student-centered approach that tailors instruction to students’ unique strengths and needs while engaging them in challenging, standards-based academic content. Largely an urban phenomenon, personalized learning can also address the unique challenges facing rural schools, and a new publication released today by Future Ready Schools® (FRS) offers them a step-by-step guide for how to do so.

Released in partnership with AASA, the School Superintendents Association, and the National Rural Education Association,A Guidebook for Success: Strategies for Implementing Personalized Learning in Rural Schools uses the FRS research-based framework and five-step planning process to help rural schools move to a personalized learning model. The framework includes seven essential planning components, or gears, of a personalized learning model while the planning process guides districts as they assess their readiness for personalized learning and develop a plan to implement personalized approaches to learning.

Download A Guidebook for Success: Strategies for Implementing Personalized Learning in Rural Schools at www.futureready.org/rural.