A Hopeful Vision For Better-Designed Schools
By Danish Kurani This article is an adapted excerpt from the book The Spaces That Make Us: Why Design Is Broken and How We Can Create a Happier, Healthier World. From the first day of kindergarten to the day students complete high school, they spend approximately fifteen thousand hours…
America is Updating Teaching Standards Without a Clear Picture of the Future Educator
Future educator preparation must evolve for AI, learner agency, and new learning models with clearer standards, exemplars, and pathways.
5 Most Versatile Certifications for High School Students
Certifications provide high school students with practical skills, enhancing resumes and opening diverse career opportunities in various fields.
How to Leverage CTE for Durable, Personalized Pathways
The rise and spread of CTE is an education success story. With 98% of school districts offering some kind of CTE programs and over 11.2 million students enrolled across the country, these programs are exposing learners to new careers, skills and possibilities at a remarkable scale. States are…
Skills Transcripts at Scale: Why The ETS & MTC Partnership is a Big Deal
The ETS and MTC partnership is a big advance on goals and signals. We finally have a chance to move courses and grades into the background and foreground powerful personalized learning experiences.
What If the Rules About How Teachers Work Together Were Also Just Made Up?
Bay Area schools are redesigning teacher collaboration to personalize learning, strengthen instruction, and improve educator sustainability.
10 Challenges Deaf Students Face in the Classroom
By: Marilyn L. Weber. Here are 10 challenges that deaf and hard-of-hearing students often face in the classroom, along with guidelines for teachers on how to mitigate them.
From Understanding to Ownership: When Students Tell Their Story through the Portrait of a Graduate
Public demonstrations help students show Portrait of a Graduate skills through authentic reflection, ownership and learner-centered assessment.
Innovative High School SchedulesÂ
Here are five sets of examples of innovative high school schedules that expand student opportunities while providing more collaborative time for teachers.Â
5 Ways to Overcome the Challenges of Implementing a Genius Hour
By: Donna Harvey. I suggested finding a way to make Genius Hour, a time designed to encourage student agency and creativity. My team bought in and we set out on the journey of trying to figure out how to provide our students with the chance to work on their own passions.