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Back to School with Apple Education 

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📣 Apple Professional Learning Opportunities 

Join Apple Professional Learning for remote learning opportunities throughout the Fall semester covering a range of topics, and offered at no cost to you or your school. Virtual Conferences are offered twice daily, Tuesday through Thursday and run for approximately 60 minutes. In these hands-on sessions, educators will explore helpful resources, practice new skills, and reflect on ways Apple technology can support great learning and teaching. 

Visit apple.co/apl to learn more and register. 

Educators are also invited to join us for a personal or small group (5-person max.) coaching session with an Apple Professional Learning Specialist to learn new skills and ask questions about any Apple technology related to learning and teaching. To schedule a 30 minute personal coaching session, send an email to AppleProfessionalLearning@apple.com. Be sure to include the topic you are interested in and your contact information. An APL Specialist will be in contact to arrange a time to meet.

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Personalized Learning has become quite a buzz word in educational circles right now as the focus turns to how we can provide deeper and more meaningful experiences for our students to reach them in ways that we perhaps have been unable to reach in prior years. Some people confuse personalized learning with forms of blended learning, although implementing a form of blended learning is indeed a stepping stone to help us move to creating more personalized learning environments for our students.

As we continue on our journey in supporting districts to create personalized learning environments for their students, I have been continually reminded about the need to build, support, develop, cherish, and encourage our teachers in the process. In a personalized learning environment, we focus so much on the "learner" and try to make all our decisions based on what is best for learning and the learner in the process. We focus on how can the learner help co-design the lesson, units, progressions, activities, etc. and what form of assessments are best for the learner to demonstrate mastery.