
Interested in Incorporating Technology in Your Classroom? Join Us for PLE!
The Digital Learning Team is kicking off the 6th year of the Personalized Learning Environments (PLE) Program. Join us for virtual meetings where teams of classroom educators learn about SFUSD digital learning tools and share best practices around how to incorporate them in your instruction. The first meeting of the year will be hosted virtually on Tuesday September 26, 2023 from 4:30-6 PM! We encourage you to attend with colleagues from your school site.
Welcome to PLE 23-24!
Why Personalized Learning ?
In SFUSD, we believe that personalized learning provides student-centered learning opportunities that are scaffolded, student-paced, adaptive, engaging, and flexible so that all students meet rigorous academic standards and effectively communicate, collaborate, create, and think critically as global citizens in preparation for college and career. Through personalized learning, students have agency, choice, and voice in their learning pathway.
Program Mission
Our cohort of K-5 Personalized Learning Environment Schools seeks to create models for technology-enabled, personalized learning environments that transform student learning across SFUSD that will benefit our African American/focal students and can eventually be scaled districtwide so that each and every SFUSD student can achieve the competencies of the Graduate Profile.
Program Goals
- To deepen understanding of innovative and effective teaching strategies for technology-enabled personalized learning, deeper learning and the graduate profile.
- To share examples and build capacity for technology-enabled learning within and across school sites.
- To explore the implementation of practices learning in the PLE PD and study the relationship between implementing PLE practices and student growth in literacy.
Program History
The Personalized Learning Environments Program started as a pilot program in 2018 with a cohort of 14 elementary schools and 48 teachers. Now entering our fifth year, we are continuing to add schools, teachers, literacy coaches, IRFs (Instructional Reform Facilitators), administrators to the program each year. Each school has a Digital Learning Cohort partner as a coach to better enable deeper learning using technology.
PLE Theory of Action
Implementation
If we... create the conditions and culture to empower educators as designers of technology-enabled personalized learning environments
Immediate Impact
Then.. educators will frequently implement lessons designed with personalized learning guiding principles
Short-term Impact
Thereby... changing conditions for learning and shifting mindsets of educators and students through reflective practice
Medium-term Impact
So that... educators and students have increased agency and ownership in their teaching & learning
Longer-term Impact
So that ultimately... every day we provide each and every student the quality instruction and equitable support required to thrive in the 21st century.
Personalized Learning Environments in Action
PLE Educator Reflections
Four SFUSD teachers describe what they've learned in the Personalized Learning Environment Pilot Program and how that connects to developing SFUSD's Graduate Profile skills with their students. Check out these PLE Educator Reflections here.
PLE in Action
Take a look at some PLE classrooms in action!
2022-23 PLE Meeting Objectives, Recording and Slides
Slidedeck and recordings from the 2022-2023 school year
PLE Meeting - October 6, 2022
Meeting #1 Objectives:
- Explore the interrelatedness of the Deeper Learning Framework and the Personalized Learning Environments Program
- Understand the scope of the PLE program, research and next steps
- Collaborate and share ideas with fellow PLE Educators
- Develop strategies to bring PLE practices into your classroom/school site.
- Connect with school site/cohort PLE team to foster site capacity around PLE practices
PLE Meeting- December 6, 2022
Meeting #2 Objectives
- Explore and make meaning around empathy interviews to be able to inform teaching practices
- Understand how digital learning resources can support a learning environment that honors the student experience
- Collaborate and Connect with grade level/ job alike educators to foster alignment across sites around PLE practices
- Develop resources to bring PLE practices into your classroom/school site.
PLE Meeting - February 6, 2023
Meeting # 3 Objectives:
- Explore digital learning resources to use in your classroom/school site.
- Collaborate and Connect with grade level/ job alike educators to foster alignment across sites around PLE practices
- Develop understanding on how digital learning resources can support a learning environment that honors the student experience
PLE Meeting- April 6, 2023
Coming Soon !
Other Resources and Artifacts
PLE Home Group Agendas | Student Empathy Interview Resources | Other Resources |
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[PLE] Home Group Nov. Meeting | PLE Student Empathy Interview Guide | PLE Calendar of the Year |
[PLE] Home Group Jan. Meeting | Student Empathy Interview- Lower Elem (google form) | PLE in Action Video |
[PLE] Home Group Mar. Meeting | Student Empathy Interview - Upper Elem/Middle (google form) |
What schools already participate in PLE?
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Personalized learning Environments Program Leaders






This page was last updated on September 7, 2023