Bibliography of Personalized Learning Support Themes

Topic: Neuroscience: links to Canadian researchers working in the fields including brain development, early learning, language acquisition, self-regulation, behaviour. The sites have general information for parents and educators)

• Adele Diamond, PhD and director of the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, University of British Columbia http://www.devcogneuro.com/
• Fraser Mustard, MD, Fraser Mustard Chair in Childhood Development, Alberta Children’s Hospital and University of Calgary http://www.frasermustardchair.ca/resources/
• Stuart Shanker, PhD, director of Milton and Ethel Harris Research Initiative , York University, http://www.mehri.ca/people/shanker.html
• Clyde Hertzman, PhD, director Human Early Learning Partnership, University of British Columbia, http://www.earlylearning.ubc.ca/people/directors/

Topic: Adolescent Learners and Student Engagement

• John Abbott, with Heather MacTaggart, Overschooled but Undereducated: How the Crisis in Education is Jeopardizing our Adolescents, Continuum International Publishing Group, London, 2010. John Abbott is the leader of the 21st Century Learning Initiative (http://www.21learn.org/ ) based in the U.K. He has visited British Columbia several times to exchange ideas about school reform.
• Eva Oberle, Kimberley A. Schonert-Reichl, Bruno D. Zumbo, “Life Satisfaction in Early Adolescence: Personal, Neighborhood, School, Family and Peer Influences”, J Youth Adolescence, November 2010. Two UBC professors and a PhD candidate studied the factors contributing to life satisfaction among 4th – 7th graders in British Columbia contexts. http://www.uwlm.ca/why-united-way/overview?quicktabs_3=3#quicktabs-3
• “Middle Childhood Inside and Out: the Psychological and Social Worlds of Children 9 – 12”, a report of research undertaken by the United Way of the Lower Mainland, the University of British Columbia and the Human Early Learning Partnership. 2010 http://www.uwlm.ca/why-united-way/overview?quicktabs_3=3#quicktabs-3
• Stuart Shanker “Self-Regulation... What is it and why is it important for learning?”http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/early_learning/webcasts1.htm

Topic: System Reform

• Michael Fullan, The Moral Imperative of School Leadership, Ontario Principals’ Council and Corwin Press, Thousand Oaks, 2003.
• J. Douglas Willms, Sharon Friesen, and Penny Milton, “What did You Do in School today: Transforming Classrooms through Social, Academic and Intellectual Engagement”, Canadian Education Association, 2009.
• Tony Wagner, The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don’t Teach the New Survival Skills our Children Need – and What We Can Do About It, Basic Books, New York, 2009. A U.S. perspective, with some practical recommendations.
• Fenton Whelan, Lessons Learned: How Good Policies Produce Better Schools, Fenton Whelan, UK 2009.

Topic: Research Related to Student Achievement:

• John Hattie, Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement, Routledge, London, 2009. John Hattie is a professor of education in New Zealand. He presents research findings about what works – and what doesn’t – is an easy-to-read format.

Topic: Curriculum

• Heidi Hayes Jacobs (ed.), Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World, AECD, Washington, D.C., 2009
• Principles of Learning – from the British Columbia curriculum (page 3) http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/irp/pdfs/english_language_arts/2006ela_k7.pdf
• First Peoples Principles of Learning – from English First Peoples Grades 10, 11, 12 curriculum http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/irp/subject.php?lang=en&subject=English%20Language%20Arts
• Nine Early Learning Principles - from the Early Learning Framework http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/early_learning/early_learning_framework.htm
• Conference Board of Canada: Employability Skills 2000+ http://www.conferenceboard.ca/topics/education/learning-tools/employability-skills.aspx
• Premier’s Technology Council: A Vision for 21st Century http://www.gov.bc.ca/premier/attachments/PTC_vision%20for_education.pdf
• Council of Minister of Education, Canada: Ministers of education discussed how provinces and territories are addressing the broad range of skills that young people will need to be fully engaged workers and citizens in the knowledge society of the 21st century. http://www.cmec.ca/Press/2011/Pages/2011-02-23.aspx
• International Baccalaureate Learner Profile: describes the type of learner this program would like to develop. http://www.ibo.org/programmes/profile/

Topic: Assessment and Data Use

• Robert Epstein, Steven M. Schmidt, and Regina Warfel, “Measuring and Training Creativity Competencies: Validation of a New Test”, Creativity Research Journal,, 20,(1), 7-12, 2008.
• Elena Silva, “Measuring Skills for the 21st Century” Educator sector, Washington D.C. 2008.
• Western and Northern Canadian Protocol, Rethinking Classroom Assessment with Purpose in Mind: Assessment for Learning, Assessment as Learning, Assessment of Learning.http://www.wncp.ca/media/40539/rethink.pdf 2006.
• Assessment as Learning: Using Classroom Assessment to Maximize Student Learning, as published in Rethinking Classroom Assessment with Purpose in Mind, Western and Northern Canadian Protocol, 2006, p. 15. http://www.wncp.ca/media/40539/rethink.pdf
• The BC Performance Standards http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/perf_stands/

Topic: BC Perspectives:

• School District 43, Coquitlam, “Learning without Boundaries”, 2010.
• “21st century learning— Widening the frame of focus and debate: A BCTF Research discussion paper” by Charlie Naylor, Ph.D. http://www.bctf.ca/uploadedFiles/Public/Issues/21CL/21CL-DiscussionPaper.pdf
• “A Vision for 21st Century Education” by the Premier’s Technology Council http://www.gov.bc.ca/premier/attachments/PTC_vision%20for_education.pdf

Topic: Technology and Digital Literacy

• James Paul Gee and Elisabeth R. Hayes, Language and Learning in the Digital Age, Routledge, London, 2011. Two professors from Arizona State University look at the pros and cons of how digital media is impacting children’s language learning in particular and education and society in general.
• Mary Ann Wolfe, “Innovate to Educate: System [Re]Design for Personalized Learning; a Report from the 2010 Symposium”, Software & Information Industry Association, in collaboration with ASCD and the Council of Chief State School Officers, Washington, D.C., 2010.

Topic: National and International Comparisons

• Canadian Education Statistics Council, “Education Indicators in Canada: An International Perspective”, Ottawa, 2010
• Mona Mourshed, Chinezi Chijoke, Michael Barber, “How the World’s Most Improved School Systems Keep Getting Better”, McKinsey & Company, 2010. Ontario is among the jurisdictions profiles. Forward by Michael Fullan.
• OECD publications based on data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
  
• “Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education” Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) 2010. Canada is among the jurisdictions profiled.
• “PISA 2009 Results: What Students Know and Can Do: Student Performance in Reading, Mathematics and Science, Volume I”, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) 2010.
• “PISA 2009 Results: Overcoming Social Background: Equity in Learning Opportunities and Outcomes, Volume II”, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) 2010.
• “PISA 2009 Results: Learning to Learn: Student Engagement, Strategies and Practices, Volume III”, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) 2010.
• “PISA 2009 Results: What Makes a School Successful? Resources, Policies and Practices, Volume IV”, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) 2010.
• “PISA 2009 Results: Learning trends: changes in Student Performance since 2000, Volume V”, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) 2010.
• “Against the Odds: Disadvantaged Students Who Succeed in School”, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) 2010.
• “Quality Time for Students: Learning In and Out of School”, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) 2010.
• OEC Publications, policy and research, from the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation
• OECD, Innovating to Learn, Learning to Innovate, 2008. A collection of nine essays that look at what recent research tells us about the way students learn.
• OECD, Personalising Education, 2006. A collection of essays related eight essays related to personalized learning and its potential to improve life outcomes for students.