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In this chapter from The Blended Learning Blueprint for Elementary Teachers, consider how you can move from differentiation to personalized learning, design personalized pathways, and make those pathways work.

Use this worksheet from Powerful Task Design by John Antonetti and Terri Stice with your students to engage students deeply in their learning and reading.

Discover in this resource from Concept-Based Inquiry in Action by Carla Marschall and Rachel French the phases of concept-based inquiry and how they are interconnected to support learning transfer.

This excerpt from Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Secondary, makes the case for conceptual learning and debunks the myth that simply  covering the material will cause students to retain it.

Use the strategy of concept attainment, from Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Elementary, with your students, which mimics the brain’s natural concept-formation process by drawing out patterns from examples and nonexamples.

"They want kids to see the world differently, and to be empowered to act differently, because of what they have learned. It seems that the goal of all learning—not just conceptual understanding—is transfer." Read more from Julie Stern, author of Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Elementary, on Corwin Connect.

Use the guidance in this section from Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Secondary, to begin a conversation with your students about how this type of learning might be different from what they are accustomed to doing.

Use this lesson framework from Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Elementary, to guide your students through the process of generating and testing hypotheses to discover connections between concepts.

Answer these important questions from The Co-Teacher's Playbook with your co-teacher team in order to set clear expectations and boundaries and to better understand each other as a team.

Complete this activity from The Co-Teacher's Playbook as a co-teaching team to take stock of your individual strengths and goals in order to better understand how you can better work together.

Students and teachers can use the “How Are You Intelligent?” Checklist from Gayle Gregory’s Differentiated Instructional Strategies to increase personal awareness around their areas of strength. (K-12)

Excerpted from Thinking Through Project-Based Learning, this list of over 75 project ideas—complete with guiding questions and grade ranges—is a great resource for getting started. (K-12)