Perry's Journey of Personalized LearningThis site highlights how Perry Local Schools (Lake County, Ohio) is personalizing the education of students by utilizing career pathways, incorporating authentic learning and life competencies through innovative practices. The ALPHA project, Life Competency Grant and Career Mentoring are highlighted.
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Perry Local School Leadership Team - In order to produce results we must collaborate and share in the work.
The following are members of the Leadership Team:
Central Office:
Jack Thompson - Superintendent
Lew Galante - Chief Financial Officer
Betty Jo Malchesky - Director of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment
Amy Harker - Director of Student Services and College and Career Readiness.
Lisa Shields - Supervisor of Special Education
Perry High School: Todd Porcello - Principal, Scott Niedzwiecki -Assistant Principal
Perry Middle School: Robert Knisely - Principal, Jim Chisholm - Assistant Principal
Perry Elementary School: Arianna Neading - Principal, Coni Steverding - Dean of Students
The following are members of the Leadership Team:
Central Office:
Jack Thompson - Superintendent
Lew Galante - Chief Financial Officer
Betty Jo Malchesky - Director of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment
Amy Harker - Director of Student Services and College and Career Readiness.
Lisa Shields - Supervisor of Special Education
Perry High School: Todd Porcello - Principal, Scott Niedzwiecki -Assistant Principal
Perry Middle School: Robert Knisely - Principal, Jim Chisholm - Assistant Principal
Perry Elementary School: Arianna Neading - Principal, Coni Steverding - Dean of Students
What is ALPHA?
ALPHA ProjectALPHA - Authentic Learning Personalized for Higher Achievement began five years ago as an idea to have students collaborate on a project-based learning (PBL) opportunity between school districts. The goal is for this to be student-driven, authentic and personalized in a way that causes deep thinking. Students from Yellow Springs School District who have been immersed in PBL for over four years facilitated the initial two-day kick-off. The 50+ students were provided with instruction of the process of doing a PBL as they walked through a simulation to build a Syrian refugee shelter. The teachers involved were learners in a fishbowl setting as they could see the process modeled for them. When the students returned to their respective schools, the YS students then mentored the Perry and Wickliffe students through their collaborative PBL projects. The students in each district were given the challenge of improving the education in their respective schools. During this project the students were not only immersed in understanding the standards, but they were using collaboration, communication, creative and critical thinking. Each group went back to their respective schools with a challenge to solve and work with their Yellow Springs student mentor to solve the challenge. Each school then had a mid cycle and a final exhibition. Five students traveled to Europe to participate in a Global Student Leadership Summit focusing on the design process. In 2017 the students from Perry who have been working with Yellow Springs students will move into the facilitator role and help three other school districts learn about design learning and the human-centered design process.
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Partners in our project: Yellow Springs Schools and Wickliffe Schools
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Life Competencies
Perry Local Schools partnered with seven other school districts across three counties to work toward developing an understanding of life competencies (ie life skills, noncognitive factors, 21st Century Skills, employability skills). We worked with University of Chicago (Impact group and Camille Farrington) and EdLeader21( http://www.edleader21.com/) to collect data, analyze the data, build a graduate profile, develop a deep understanding of the life competency skills that we want our students to develop. We are defining them, developing a system to monitor them, as well as a credentialing system to evaluate them.
Partners in our grant: University of Chicago, EdLeader21, Seven Schools Districts: Olmsted Falls, North Olmsted, Mayfield, Chardon, Fairport Harbor, and Wickliffe.