STRUCTURES AND STRATEGIES TO SUPPORT INDIVIDUALIZED LEARNING

Design routines and supports that make rigorous learning reachable for every student in any setting.

Quick facts

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Format

Facilitated cohort plus self-paced modules

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Time

25 hours total

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Certificate

Yes

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Price

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Agency by Design:

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Agency by Design:

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Agency by Design:

Why this VLC

Individualized learning is not a set of worksheets; it is a system. In this VLC, you will design structures that help students navigate learning, build academic resilience, and accelerate progress by focusing on power standards. You will also integrate supports for executive function and SEL so students plan, start, stick, and finish—whether they are in inclusion, self-contained, or other learning environments. The goal is a classroom where differentiation and scaffolds are visible, practical, and sustainable.

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Agency by Design:

replace tasks with authentic problems and give learners real decisions to make.

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Structures First:

time, resources, choice, and feedback systems that transfer responsibility to the learner.

Who it is for

Teachers and instructional coaches serving diverse learners across inclusion and self-contained settings

Structures First:

School and district leaders building systems for targeted acceleration and support

Executive Function for All:

Teams seeking practical routines that balance rigor, access, and independence

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Evidence of Learning:

use student work to guide the next move, not just to record a grade.

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Human and Tech Together:

tools serve the design, not the other way around.

Professional Learning That Puts Learners in Charge

Great teaching is design. Our Professional Learning Experiences help teams create learner-active environments where people own the work, build executive function, and solve authentic problems.

What you will gain

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Replace tasks with purpose-driven problems

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Build structures for choice, time, and resources learners can manage

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Coach executive function skills that drive results

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Use evidence of learning to adjust in real time

What you will be able to do

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Help students self-regulate and manage learning in any environment (inclusion, self-contained, or other)

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Implement structures that support differentiated engagement and productive independence

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Build purposeful opportunities for self-assessment and reflection that grow EF and SEL

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Partner with parents, caregivers, aides, and paras to strengthen the learning community

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Deconstruct standards to identify power standards  and map connections to related content

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Generate authentic problems that drive instruction through the power standards

Syllabus snapshot

  • MANAGE AND SELF-REGULATE

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    Takeaway: Explore and develop strategies that help students manage and self-regulate in inclusion, self-contained, and other environments.

  • DIFFERENTIATE ENGAGEMENT

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    Takeaway: Gain structures and routines that support differentiated student engagement and productive independence.

  • REFLECTION, EF, AND SEL

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    Takeaway: Build purposeful opportunities for self-assessment and reflection while supporting executive function and social-emotional learning.

  • BUILD THE LEARNING COMMUNITY

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    Takeaway: Create collaboration pathways with parents, caregivers, aides, and paras to optimize support.

  • TEACH THROUGH POWER STANDARDS

    Takeaway: Deconstruct standards to identify power standards; map connections to related content and generate problems that drive instruction.

  • EVIDENCE TO ACTION

    Takeaway: Use formative and summative assessment strategies to keep instruction data-driven and push students to higher achievement.

Course materials and access

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Required text: Participants use Reinventing the Classroom Experience  by Dr. Nancy Sulla. Please purchase the book in advance.

Included access: MyQPortal  access is included for all participants while enrolled in the VLC.

Evidence and impact

Students used reflection routines to plan next steps, which raised both confidence and outcomes.
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Our power-standard maps focused instruction and made differentiation manageable.
Students used reflection routines to plan next steps, which raised both confidence and outcomes.
Our power-standard maps focused instruction and made differentiation manageable.
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Related Resources

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Dr. Nancy Sulla Books

Unlock Educational Success with Dr. Sulla’s Books

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MyQPortal

The Pathway to Student-Driven Learning!

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FAQs

  • HOW MUCH TIME WILL I NEED

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    Plan for 25 hours total including self-paced work and scheduled sessions.

  • CAN OUR TEAM ENROLL TOGETHER

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    Yes. Seat bundles are available. Price:

    VLC PRICE LINE

  • DO I GET A CERTIFICATE

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    Yes. You will receive a certificate noting contact hours and outcomes.

  • WILL THIS ALIGN TO OUR CURRICULUM AND PACING

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    Yes. You will design structures and maps tied to your standards, units, and schedule.

  • DO I NEED SPECIAL TECHNOLOGY

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    No specific platform is required. We’ll share options and you can use tools already available in your setting.

Build a System Every Learner Can Navigate

PO accepted. Seat bundles available.