Beyond Reform: Systemic Shifts Toward Personalized Learning -Shift from a Traditional Time-Based Education System to a Learner-Centered Performance-Based System

Like many school districts, Lindsay Unified School District faced difficulty meeting the needs of increasingly diverse student populations. Through this detailed resource, you will learn how Lindsay Unified took action to improve student learning by shifting from a traditional time-based education system to a learner-centered performance-based system. By adopting and tailoring Lindsay Unified's instructional model, you and your team can embark on your own district's transformation toward establishing a revised education system that empowers and motivates all students to succeed.

Benefits

• Consider Lindsay Unified's core values and visions for leadership, curriculum, assessment, learning, and technology.
• Meet Lindsay Unified students and see how the district's performance-based system transformed their learning.
• Explore core value rubrics that school staff can use to reflect on personal leadership growth, frame important conversations, and provide feedback.
• Study Lindsay Unified's instructional model, which helps align the district's instructional decisions with its unified instructional vision.
• Download a free reproducible checklist for shifting to a performance-based system and lists of recommended strategies for ensuring a successful district transformation.

Contents

Chapter 1: Preparing for Change

Chapter 2: Creating a New Culture

Chapter 3: Transforming Leadership

Chapter 4: Transforming Personnel

Chapter 5: Transforming Curriculum and Assessment

Chapter 6: Transforming Teaching and Learning

Chapter 7: The Lindsay Community

Epilogue

Appendix

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Lindsay Unified School District (LUSD), located in California's Central Valley, serves over four thousand students in the city of Lindsay and its surrounding area. LUSD's implementation of performance-based education has become a model and an inspiration for schools and districts around the country. The district struggled under a traditional system for many years with low levels of literacy, low test scores, and graduates who were not prepared for life. Envisioning and building a new, mastery-based system from the ground up allowed LUSD to radically improve student engagement, student achievement, and college and career readiness. LUSD is widely recognized as a leader in performance-based education and has been featured in Education Week and the Wall Street Journal, among others. The district's leaders encourage others to follow in their footsteps through presentations at national conferences and organized site visits to Lindsay schools.