Students move on when they have mastered the appropriate standards and skills, have individualized learning plans, and, along with their parents, receive daily progress reports based on how they are doing.

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School of One blows apart that structure (quite literally) by administering a diagnostic assessment to each student, creating an individualized learning plan for each student, and then offering students different ways to learn based on the diagnosis of their distinct needs be that instruction in large or small group clusters or individual online or offline work.

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Isolated office space and individualized workloads are not conducive to learning about ones peers, and are barriers to developing office-wide social cohesion.

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Open Educational Resources typically go beyond the textbook to incorporate interactive project-based learning methodologies that allow individualized, interactive engagement with subject matter content and personalized assessment of progress.

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Armed with individualized plans, students leverage Khan Academy, a pioneer of Internet learning, and other online resources to learn math at their own pace.

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Strong managers construct individualized reward portfolios (a point about with which Lawler and Worley agree, by the way) using elements like learning opportunities, project assignments and organizational network introductions to ensure that each employee has a comprehensive deal customized for his or her personal needs and circumstances.

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