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Students Pinpoint Their Academic Needs in Georgia District

Education Week: On Mondays at Luella Middle School, the big, broad goal of "personalized learning" gets distilled down to a simple concept: Students who need extra help get it.

All students at the school in the Henry County system in Georgia spend an entire day once a week with access to additional academic support. The decisions about which subjects they will spend the most time with—math, language arts, social studies, or another—are left largely to them.

Those sessions, known as What I Need, or WIN, periods, are designed to give students choice and responsibility over their learning. They're one piece of an entire fabric of academic strategies that the district has been rolling out over the past few years, while allowing for experimentation, missteps, and adjustments along the way.

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