Personalized learning is the idea that young people can express their personal interests and have their needs met in schools that also shape meaningful and rigorous learning experiences around these interests and needs (even as they change).
For Youth Today, Director of Special Projects Stephanie Krauss wrote about the impact of personalized learning. Her piece highlights the stories of two young women whose lives would've tremendously benefitted from a learning approach that took their individual circumstances into consideration. Krauss believes that "personalized learning is the piece of the educational puzzle that connects all the other pieces of student-centered learning together."