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has become woven into our daily lives, but they are taking cautious steps to ensure that they are using and teaching technology in a beneficial way. Doing so provides students with a fundamental approach to utilizing technology to increase productivity, access resources and to lay the groundwork for use in their future careers. Teachers continue to learn and grow through continuing education courses that allow them to integrate new methods for incorporating technology in the classroom to ultimately guide our students to a successful future. Providing students with access to technology in a structured setting provides them with the freedom to individually learn and discover solutions to real-world problems and prepare them for the future. Students have a paved path to achieve success with the help of cooperative, communal workspaces, online portals that encourage cross-collaboration, and support from their teachers, peers and parents. PERSONALIZED LEARNING FOR HIGH SCHOOL Personalized learning adapts a structured educational environment into a malleable approach to learning and teaching. Each learning style is different, and there is not one approach to teaching that fits them all. Personalized learning provides students with attainable success in the classroom by allowing teachers to understand the strengths and weaknesses of each individual student and adapt lesson plans to allow students to work at their own pace. Building Student Profiles: Personalized learning pulls from the strengths and weaknesses of individual students and tailors lessons to improve learning outcomes. Teachers are able to utilize these pathways to learning to guide their students to success. Digital Approach to Personalized Learning: Utilizing data from digital coursework provides an even stronger approach to personalized learning through analytics. These analytics monitor a student’s performance and 26 724.942.0940 TO ADVERTISE | Sewickley