SEL & Mindset
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is the deliberate commitment to including a framework of essential skills and dispositions that complement academics but historically have not been a part of curricular design. Learners acquire and effectively apply the skills necessary for self-regulation or managing and talking about emotions, forming relationships, setting goals and demonstrating empathy during their learning.
Personalized Learning
Personalizing Post High School Readiness
By: Jennifer Ghidiu. The question of how to best set up our students for success in life is not a question of getting them access to college. The most important question is what individual pathway is best for each student.
SEL & Mindset
Can Grit be Grown?
By: Jonathan E. Martin. Knowing the importance of grit is barely half the battle. What we really need to know is how to grow it in ourselves and others.
Difference Making
Take Charge of Your Learning: Passions and Career Interests Will Follow
By: Matt Schultz. The old age theory of "learning by doing' lends students real world experience to understand what their future career passions and interests are.
Difference Making
Leveraging the Gap Year to Solve the World’s Most Pressing Problems
By: Andrea Wien. Gap year is a proven way to kick start an important and often overlooked type of learning that extends beyond the classroom and out into the world.
Future of Learning
Next Generation Career Pathways: A Manufacturing Case Study
In this paper, we assert that new market demands are shaping next generation career and technical education opportunities. The rise of anywhere, anytime learning and competency-based approaches provides the opportunity for Career and Technical Education programs to lead the way in terms of applying blended, competency-based education in practical ways.
Personalized Learning
Personalizing and Guiding College & Career Readiness
A DLN Smart Series paper that offers details on processes, existing tools and best practices for creating a system of student guidance and support.
SEL & Mindset
Getting Smart on Coding for College & Career Readiness
A Getting Smart bundle on expanding access to coding and computer science learning experiences in K-12, published in partnership with Microsoft.
Post-Secondary
Infographic: College and Career Readiness GPS for Every Student
This infographic previews the next DLN Smart Series paper, “Core & More: Guiding and Personalizing College & Career Readiness” being released Thursday.
SEL & Mindset
Defining (and Driving) Collaboration
By: Jordan Lippman. In today's world, both employers and educational institutions place a high value on soft skills that are transferable across professional, academic, and social situations. One of the most frequently cited skills is collaboration.