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What Students Want Principals to Know | The MAPS Media Institute

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Oct 23, 2026
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This School Cut a Class Period for Career Time | Principal Kyle Scott

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Learner Wallets for Identity, Discovery and Pathways | Jacksón Smith

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Mason Pashia
Oct 16, 2026
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This campaign will serve as a road map to the new architecture for American schools. Pathways to citizenship, employment, economic mobility, and a purpose-driven life.

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Active Hallways
Place Based Education

Activate Your Hallways!

Randy Fielding, Guest Author
Aug 18, 2022

In schools around the world, hallways are waiting to be activated. Start learning outside the box.

Paper
New Pathways

North American Learners Gain 24/7 Support from Canadian Unicorn

Tom Vander Ark
Aug 17, 2022

Today, Paper has about 500 corporate employees and 2,100 tutors supporting more than 2.5 million learners in 30 states. It’s available statewide in Mississippi, a state that has demonstrated dramatic improvement in literacy rates.

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Ed3

Three Ways Web3 Will Change Education For Good

Guest Author, Vriti Saraf
Aug 17, 2022

Web3 provides new pathways for learning, earning, and living.

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New Pathways

How Accredible Makes Learning Credible

Tom Vander Ark
Aug 16, 2022

To increase the value of credentials, Accredible launched Spotlight Directory which allows issuers to provide a home base for people that hold their credentials.  

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Learner-Centered

What Can Students Do?

Cameron Paterson
Aug 15, 2022

We must shift to co-construct assessment rubric criteria with students instead of at students.

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Reflecting on the 2021-2022 School Year

Kyle Wagner
Aug 11, 2022

Kyle Wagner shares three reflective activities to start the new school year off right.

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New Pathways

How Design Thinking Is Preparing Young People to Lead

Guest Author
Aug 9, 2022

The planet’s most pressing issues will likely need to be solved by our youngest generation, and preparation for that problem solving can start now in classrooms using design thinking.

dual enrollment
Equity & Access

How 3 States Are Eliminating Barriers to Dual Enrollment for Students with Disabilities

Karla Phillips-Krivickas
Aug 8, 2022

Students with disabilities are often told that the services and support they receive in school cannot be offered in dual or concurrent enrollment programs. Some states have taken steps to make sure that their students with disabilities have access to dual and concurrent enrollment programs.

model of learning Jennifer Klein
Leadership

What Educators Need: Building Cultures of Trust in an Era of Top-Down Educational Legislation

Guest Author
Aug 4, 2022

This article explores the prevalence of top-down legislation and accountability systems in education today, and the ways they are negatively impacting PreK-12 educators in the United States.

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Equity & Access

Shifting Demographics: How School Districts are Diversifying their Workforce to Serve All Students

Guest Author
Aug 2, 2022

Here's how five districts launched unique programs that highlight how the shifting demographics of schools and communities were an opportunity to diversify their workforce by attracting teachers who serve and reflect all students.  

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