Bibliography of Personalized Learning Resources

These are not “approved” resources and some even provide contrarian perspectives.
The resources go beyond Personalized Learning and/or 21^st Century Learning. The idea is to use what is known about things like neuroscience and brain development to inform learning and teaching.

• John Abbott, with Heather MacTaggart, Overschooled but Undereducated: How the Crisis in Education is Jeopardizing our Adolescents, Continuum International Publishing Group, London, 2010.


• Check out Abbott’s Born to Learn site: http://www.born-to-learn.org/


• British Columbia Ministry of Education, The British Columbia Performance Standards for Reading, Writing, Numeracy and Social Responsibility http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/perf_stands/


• British Columbia Ministry of Education, “Principles of Learning”, in English Language Arts curriculum guide , 2006 (page 3)http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/irp/pdfs/english_language_arts/2006ela_k7.pdf


• British Columbia Ministry of Education, “First Peoples Principles of Learning”, in English First Peoples Grades 10, 11, 12 curriculum guide http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/irp/subject.php?lang=en&subject=English%20Language%20Arts


• British Columbia Ministry of Health, British Columbia Ministry of Children and Family Development, British Columbia Ministry of Education, “British Columbia Early Learning Framework” , 2008. 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


• Council of Minister of Education, Canada, press release, 2011, http://www.cmec.ca/Press/2011/Pages/2011-02-23.aspx


• Michael Fullan, The Moral Imperative of School Leadership, Ontario Principals’ Council and Corwin Press, Thousand Oaks, 2003.


• Hargreaves, D 2004, Personalising Learning: Next Steps in Working Laterally, http://bit.ly/gfo5d3


• International Baccalaureate Organization, “IB Learner Profile Booklet”, 2008. http://www.ibo.org/programmes/profile/


• Charles Leadbeater, Personalisation through Participation; New Script for Public Services , 2004. http://www.demos.co.uk/files/personalisationthroughparticipation.pdf?1266491309


• Learning About Personalisation, an Education-focused pamphlet based on the previous title http://www.demos.co.uk/files/learningaboutpersonalisation.pdf?1240939425
  



• Mulford, B. (2008). The leadership challenge: Improving learning in schools. Melbourne: Australian Council for Educational Research, Australian Education Review 53. http://www.acer.edu.au/research_reports/AER.html%20


• National College for School Leadership (NCSL). (2005a). Learning-centred leadership: Towards personalised learning-centred leadership. Nottingham: Author. http://www.nationalcollege.org.uk/download?id=17270&filename=learning-centred-leadership.pdf%20


• Leading personalised learning http://www.nationalcollege.org.uk/index/leadershiplibrary/leadingschools/personalisedlearning




• Charlie Naylor, “21st century learning— Widening the frame of focus and debate: A BCTF Research discussion paper”, British Columbia Teachers’ Federation, 2011. http://www.bctf.ca/uploadedFiles/Public/Issues/21CL/21CL-DiscussionPaper.pdf


• Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), PISA 2009 Results: What Students Know and Can Do: Student Performance in Reading, Mathematics and Science, Volume I, II, III, IV, V, VI, 2010. http://www.oecd.org/document/61/0,3343,en_2649_35845621_46567613_1_1_1_1,00.html


• Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education, 2011.


• Premier’s Technology Council, “A Vision for 21^st Century”, 2010. http://www.gov.bc.ca/premier/attachments/PTC_vision%20for_education.pdf