Making learning personal for all North Dakota learners.
Connecting educators, leaders and partners across North Dakota to make learning personal for every student
The North Dakota Personalized Learning Network (NDPLN) brings educators together to learn with and from one another as they explore personalized, competency‑based learning in real classrooms. NDPLN is a flexible learning community that invites curiosity, reflection, and honest dialogue. Educators can engage deeply or lightly, observe before acting, and choose what fits their context and goals.
What are the Key Elments of Personalized Learning?
LEARNER AGENCY
Learners feel empowered to take ownership of the learning process by embracing goal setting, reflecting on their strengths and challenges, building self-efficacy, and leveraging their voice to advocate for unique needs, preferences, and interests.
RELATIONSHIPS
Learners engage in collaborative learning experiences where the structured environment fosters safe and meaningful social connections that allow them to identify and communicate their needs, preferences, and aspirations, encouraging them to develop their intellectual, physical, and emotional well-being.
CONTINUUM OF LEARNING
Learners have access to progressions of prioritized standards and/or competencies that identify the essential knowledge, skills, and dispositions they will be expected to demonstrate throughout their educational career and beyond.
LEARNER SUPPORTS
Learners have equitable access to a variety of personalized resources and strategies that meet their individual needs when they need them.
DEMONSTRATION OF LEARNING
Learners progress along a continuum of learning based on mastery of clearly defined, transparent, and measurable prioritized standards and/or competencies. Learners have voice in how and when they show evidence of learning.
RELEVANT LEARNING
Learners engage in rigorous learning experiences designed to support and grow learners’ unique strengths, preferences, goals, and interests.
Learn Together
Get involved in a variety of in-person and virtual learning opportunities throughout the year.
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Get started by learning more about key elements of personalized learning and implementation.
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Join us and a growing group of educators committed to making learning personal for all learners.
“Learners- I think they’re making the shift to understanding. It’s not just about the grade. It’s about the learning along the way and showing what they know. They advocate for themselves with their teachers. They have a good grasp of knowing what they need.”
– Oakes Leader
