Episode #7

First Steps: Personalizing Content
​with guest Matt Lunt

Introduction & Housekeeping
#PLearnMC
Parking Lot
Summer Slump
Professional Magazines
Start Up PLan
Focus Of The Week: First Steps After Setting Culture
Matt and Courtney talk through three first steps for personalizing the “curriculum”

1. Lay out the topics for the year
2. Lay out progressions for targets within topics
3. Make the map visible to students

Guest Interview: Matt Lunt
Matt is a sixth grade teacher at Memorial Middle School in South Portland, ME.  In his second year of teaching in a mainstream class after being a alternative ed teacher for many years, he shares with us what he has learned about bringing personalized methods and practices to “regular ed.”
Terms and Phrases We Hate:  None!  It is Summer
Resource Review Corner
Courtney:  How’s It Going:  Carl Anderson
Matt:  Brandon Busteed on Youtube, specifically the Iowa presentation