Intro to Summit Learning for Parents
Demo the Summit Learning Platform
3, 2, 1… Go! Back-to-School Quick Start Guide to the PLP
Skills and Tools for Academic Success presentation
Listening, Learning and Doing… Where we were, are now, and where we’re headed. 6/19/2018
Summit Learning Chats Resources and Meeting Archive
Watch a Video About Summit Learning at Fairview Park City Schools (produced by FHS Digital Media students -May 17, 2017)
At the Fairview Park City Schools, each student has a pathway that makes sense to them and that is connected to their long-term goals and aspirations. We accomplish this by providing our students with the Fairview Advantage, a framework for student success. We focus on key elements of career and college readiness, and empower students to drive their learning and own their success.
The district utilizes several learning tools which support the district’s personalized, project-based learning model of engaging students, encouraging collaboration and creativity, and promoting authentic work and assessment.
Essential Elements of Personalized Learning:
In Fairview, since 2006, personalized learning has taken a blended approach. At the beginning of the 2016-17 school year, Fairview Park City Schools implemented the Summit Learning Platform, a learning and curriculum management tool, in the middle and high schools.
What has stayed the same?
With a platform, what is different?
After a few months of utilizing the platform, Fairview Park teachers observed notable changes with their students and classroom environment:
Gaining Traction, Gaining Ground: Achievement and Progress Present, Past and Future
A Framework for Student Success
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Gaining Traction, Gaining Ground
Summit Learning Insider: Parent Resources
Parent Quick Reference Guide
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Audio Recordings:
Parent Panel: Parenting in a Digital Age | Recorded March 24, 2017 in the Fairview High School Innovation Center
Notes: Students and parents discuss their experiences with the Summit Learning Platform, the Personalized Learning Platform used at Fairview Park City Schools as well as how parents can embrace technology and independent learning.
Personalized Learning Parent/Student Focus Group – April 20, 2017
Notes: Students and parents discuss their experiences with the Summit Learning Platform, the Personalized Learning Platform used at Fairview Park City Schools.
Personalized, Project-Based Learning at Fairview Park City Schools: An Overview
Tools and Skills for Academic Success
Personalized Learning Parent Focus Group Presentation: January 19, 2017
Partnering with Summit Learning provides us an opportunity to focus and maximize the district’s investment in the one-to-one technology initiative. The Summit Learning Platform’s emphasis on project-based learning and performance assessment can help us deliver “Quadrant D”instruction, in other words, learning that provides a firm foundation in knowledge and skills while reaching toward the highest levels of rigor and relevance. Some other reasons include:
What other platforms were considered?
Other available platforms did not come close to matching Summit’s qualifications. One proprietary platform used in higher education, Blackboard, shares attributes (although it is not pre-loaded with exemplary curriculum) but is cost prohibitive.
Most OER platforms, such as Schoology and Edmodo, while not cost prohibitive, do not provide the same breadth and depth or functionality. Unlike Schoology and Edmodo, the Personalized Learning Platform does NOT incorporate/connect to Social Media or include social media tools.
Here is an independent investigation of Summit’s Personalized Learning Platform and privacy concerns from COMMON SENSE MEDIA.
A selection of authoritative thinking/research informing The Fairview Advantage.
If you have further questions, please contact Director of Teaching and Learning Melanie Wightman.
2006: Fairview’s student:device one-to-one initiative began
2007: MacBooks and iPads added to resources; digital gradebook instituted
2008: Google applications adopted/made standard ; digital student portfolios instituted; iMovie Film Festival inaugurated at Gilles Sweet
2010: Edmodo provided to teachers as a Learning Management System
2012: The Rigor/Relevance Framework affirmed as district norm
2013: CHROMEbooks provided to high school students
2016: Year three of 1:1 implementation, district wide District selected as Summit partner, began implementation of personalized learning platform (PLP) with grades 6 and 9; District approved by College Board for Advanced Preparation (AP) Capstone Diploma
Moving Forward, we will:
Harvard EdCast on Summit and Personalized Learning
EdSurge: A peek inside Summit’s Personalized Learning Software
The Coming Era of Personalized Learning Paths
Inside Facebook’s Plan to Build a Better School
Why parents fear technology is making kids fat, dumb, and mean
A selection of authoritative thinking/research informing The Fairview Advantage.
Coffee Talks with the Superintendent – 5 – 7 p.m at the BOE
January 23
February 13
February 27
March 20
April 10
April 24
May 15
August 29
Basecamp 101 Sessions – 7-9 p.m. at FHS
October 3
October 10
October 17
October 24
November 7
November 11
November 18
November 19
November 23
Personalized Learning Parent Focus Group
December 5, 6-7 p.m. FHS
Basecamp 101, 4 – 7 p.m. FHS Innovation Center
January 11
January 23
January 18
January 30
February 1
February 8
February 13
February 27
March 1
March 13
March 20
March 23
April 3
April 5
April 24
May 1
May 10
May 15
May 24
February 16 – Personalized Learning Parent Focus Group with Laura Zado from Summit Learning
March 23 “Parenting in a Digital Age” Panel (see recording above)
September 13
Curriculum Advisory Group, 7 p.m. and Personalized Learning Parent Focus Group, 8 p.m.
February 8
Curriculum Night
Tools and Skills for Academic Success
April 16
April 17
September 13
Gaining Traction, Gaining Ground
November 8
It’s Technical Night – Tech Help and Tips with District Tech Platforms
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District Selected to Participate in Elite National Personalized Learning Program
Summit Learning utilizes relevant student projects, program manager says | WestLife: March 20, 2017
Teaching Methods Changing Under Summit Personalized Learning Platform | WestLife: February 10, 2017
Fairview Park City Schools’ personalized learning program attracting regional attention | Cleveland.com/Sun News: December 13, 2016
Parent Group forming to discuss Personalized Learning | WestLife News: December 1, 2016
Online Education Program Encourages Individual Learning | WestLife News: August 30, 2016
Fairview Park City Schools Implement Personalized Learning Program | Cleveland.com/Sun News: August 26, 2016
For more information, please contact Director of Teaching and Learning Melanie Wightman at (440) 331-5000 x 1117.
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