Future of Learning

Delivering Essential Skills for Students by Students

By: Crystal Everett. Life Skills Series: KCPS Edition, is a real-world learning project supporting Kansas City Public Schools students to acquire the skills needed for the future of work.

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Learning Design

How To Bring a Cross-Curricular Approach to Your Instruction

[…] instruction through a transdisciplinary approach. Leverage transformative, real-world events For students to understand the impact of multiple subjects, instruction should relate to current events. This lesson connects life science and STEM by examining the Zika virus, which shares a similar impact to the recent COVID-19 virus. Lesson: Beating Mosquitos at Their Own Game Students […]

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Difference Making

Celebrating Edmund W. Gordon

A Soliloquy on Viewing the Life of Professor Edmund W. Gordon from the First Decade of His Second Century “Dr. Edmund W. Gordon has been one of the leading intellectuals in the field of education for longer than I have been alive. I have the privilege of counting him as one of my mentors […]

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Getting Through

A Lifeboat in an Education Crisis: Supporting Educators through Inclusive Actions

[…] After I left, I began searching for ways to continue to support struggling students—and the teachers like me, treading the waters of the system—to help provide a lifeboat, of sorts. Then, I joined the efforts of the Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA for short), a coalition of over 100 organizations formed as a result of […]

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Personalized Learning

5 Personalized Learning Strategies for the Online Learner

[…] opportunities for young people, especially for students who are in school and college or simply those who take online courses, to develop their skills and enhance their lifelong learning abilities. Apart from offering quick and simple solutions to enormous obstacles that humanity has to face now and then – like pandemics, technology never ceases […]

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Equity & Access

Preparing Students to be Financially Literate

[…] the gig economy. In our personal finance course, topics include goal setting, banking services, budgeting,  decisions regarding housing and loan applications, understanding property and income taxes, obtaining life, health and auto insurances, investment essentials, and career planning in addition to many other topics.. As not all schools may have access to courses like this […]

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Career & Technical Ed

Getting Clearer: Career and Technical Education

[…] Although she had to endure other life struggles, she leaned on her love for her CTE classes to give her purpose. By connecting her interests to her life lessons, she learned the importance of being a steward of the earth and using that to make life better for everyone. As a result of her mastery […]

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Leadership

Youth Corps SC: An Afterschool Program Creating Equity for All

[…] Corps SC (YC) provides effective leadership training and skills to 9th and 10th-grade students from the Midlands of South Carolina. YC students are encouraged to live a life of influence, to be productive citizens, lifelong learners, and to take responsibility for their lives, family, and community. YC achieves its vision through a one-year course of practical, […]

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Future of Learning

Our Learning Future from A to Z

[…] be what we make it and therefore certainty is an impossibility. But if I can be so bold, it’s clear our future will be one filled with life-long, life-deep, and life-wide learning that must unlock both human and planetary flourishing. This means leveraging exponential technologies to become more human and solve wicked problems as […]

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