In this recording, Amy Coredes from FCPS and Kellie Ady from Schoology, discus show Amy built a personalized learning program.

1. Building Vanguard
Diffusing Innovation to Personalize Instruction
Amy Cordes
Achievement Specialist for
Personalized Learning
@AmyFCPSAchieve

2. Audience
● 67 Schools
● 43,000 Students
● 4,800 students receiving
special education services
(11%)
● 3,540 English Learners
(8%)
● 11,000 receiving Free or
Reduced-Price Meal
Services (26%)

3. Why Vanguard?
A positive community of practice for
teacher leadership and growth
Student centered classrooms focused on
personalization
Experts in blended and purposeful use of technology

4. Why Vanguard?
Empower teachers to lead from the classroom
Celebrate and elevate the work
Personalized learning is a pathway to equity
and closing achievement gaps

5. Our Approach
● Try, learn and adjust
● Enjoy creating
● Troubleshoot; persevere
● Ambassadors for change
● Look for use cases
and successes
● Will join a “system”
● Can
● apply innovation given
accelerators
Everett Rodgers, 1995

6. The Vanguard
Program
3 Years
Teach
Lead
Coach
Embrace, Empower, Cultivate

7. Our Approach
● Technology Stack
Evaluation
● Curriculum Projects
● Blended/Personalized
Learning Program

8. What makes
Vanguard special?
Job embedded
Celebrates change and risk-
taking
Brings the outside in
Teachers empowered to lead
and be agents of change

9. Evidence of Growth
4 Microcredentials
Proof Points
Focus: Blended and Personalization

10. Credit Opportunity
● Hood College, Frederick Maryland
● Maryland State Department of Education

11. Every Content Area and Grade Level Represented
3 Years
159 Vanguards
48
Schools

12. What are Vanguard teachers saying about the experience?

13. Tips for Getting Started
● Let teachers build the program
● Build capacity and support in curriculum and leaders
○ Book studies, blended professional learning, connections to
systemic initiatives
● Make connections to existing frameworks about quality instruction
and effective use of technology
● Communication is key- Information sessions, Twitter, video
● Build Partnerships
● Bring the outside in- Keynote speakers
● Be Transparent

14. Key Resources that Informed Our Work
Horn, M & Staker, H (2015. Blended: Using disruptive innovation to improve
schools. Jossey-Bass: San Francisco, CA.
Robinson, L. (2012). Changeology: How to enable groups, communities and
societies to do things they've never done before. Green Books Limited: Devon,
Tontes.
Rodgers, E. (1995) The diffusion of innovations. (4th ed). The Free Press:
New York.
Tucker, C., Wycoff, T., & Green, J. (2017) Blended learning in action: A
practical guide toward sustainable change. Corwin: Thousand Oaks, Ca.
Vygotsky, L. S. (1978). Mind in society: The development of higher
psychological processes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

15. Resources
FCPS Vanguard on Google Transformation Center
● Kevin Cuppett, Executive Director of Curriculum, Instruction and Innovation:
@FCPSExecDir_CII
● Eric Haines, Project Manager for Personalize Learning: @EHainesFCPS