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more about your students’ strengths, interests, values, identities, and previous learning experiences? • How are you already defining learning goals with or for your students? How might you involve students more in that process, and how will you make sure your perceptions don’t interfere with establishing a limitless horizon in collaboration with them? • How are you already personalizing the pathways and supporting your students’ need to succeed? How might you involve students more in establishing the pathway through their learning journeys, to make sure each student gets the right supports and challenges along the way?
Takeaways The following summarizes key ideas from the chapter. • The landscape model of learning includes three elements that help educators ensure the highest levels of success possible for all students. • The element of the ecosystem allows educators to understand all of the experiences and identities students bring into the learning ecosystem in order to honor and leverage their whole selves in the learning process. • The element of the horizon asks educators to co-create goals with students in order to avoid limiting their potential with our own assumptions. • The element of the pathway asks educators to work with students to establish personal (and personalized) pathways in order to ensure that the learning journey challenges them appropriately.
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• How much of your own education resembled what we describe here? How much of it didn’t? How did your educational experiences impact your sense of what was possible for you in life?
