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Equity & Access
Eight Is Enough: Combating Youth Homelessness
One in ten young adults ages 18–25 experience some form of homelessness in a year. The trauma of homelessness has many impacts on a young person’s life. Homelessness for youth can look like sleeping in a hotel or a park, in a car, or in a dangerous and life-threatening shelter with other people. Youth […]
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Learner-Centered
When Preparing Kids for Their Future, Should We Lead with the Destination?
[…] on their choices. This is what I’d call the typical future readiness funnel, with exposure to existing careers at the top and students’ eventual discovery of the lifestyle particulars of those careers at the bottom. But does this approach work? Few employers believe students have what it takes for workplace success. What’s the Problem? Most […]
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Project-Based Learning
Project-Based Learning Programs Support Creativity and Entrepreneurship in Specialized Space
[…] district and teachers to create really intentional spaces based on the class work they had already practiced.” The goal of Project NEXT is to prepare students for life through soft skills like communication, teamwork, public speaking, and independent thought. The specially designed spaces are intended to be multipurpose, flexible, and connected to achieve the […]
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Equity & Access
The Importance of Amplifying New Voices in Education: Meet the 2023 EALA New Champion
[…] DiversAbility College and Career Fair In an introductory blog on The Transition Academy website, Kim states, “For far too long, parents of youth with disabilities have described life after high school as ‘falling off a cliff.’ These feelings of dread are because the preschool to high school process is easy to follow. But life […]
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Leadership
Inspiring Change with Improvement Science: The Carnegie Foundation Summit 2022
[…] a chance to get their hands dirty and practice new improvement skills with colleagues from a wide range of settings, backgrounds, and roles through collaboration on real- life challenges. My “pre-conference course” was titled Improvement Science Basics (focused on protocols and processes for aligning around a shared understanding of a problem, and collaborating to […]
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Equity & Access
Stephanie Krauss on Readiness, Opportunity, and The Right to a Decent Life
[…] Kids Need for Tomorrow’s World. Stephanie is an educator, social worker, researcher, and writer. Her work focuses on what young people need in the first quarter of life, in order to thrive and be ready for adulthood. Stephanie is a senior advisor to JFF and a staff consultant for the Youth Transition Funders Group. […]
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Equity & Access
Creating A Collective In Your Classroom: Soulquarians as a Case Study
We can take lessons from different industries and sectors. Aaron Schorn notes the seismic influence of building a collective in music.
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Getting Through
An Opportunity to Disrupt Education for the Better: Lessons From Starting a School in a Pandemic
By: Tom Woelper. The disruptive forces at play in American education due to COVID-19 present challenges, but they also provide an opportunity for us to rethink the educational experience we’re delivering. For a startup school, the pandemic has presented lessons that can be extended to better education for all.
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Future of Learning
What’s the EdTech Vaccine? 10 Design Principles
There are 10 design shifts that represent an opportunity in learner experience and supporting learning tools that can improve the life trajectories of billions.
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Equity & Access
A Dashboard is Not A Plan
Dr. D’Andre Weaver and Dr. Eric J Ban detail how education leaders are seeking more holistic insights to support students on their college, career, and life journey.
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