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Post-Secondary
Creating Promising Career Pathways for Minority High School Students by Partnering with the Business Community
By: Antonio Boyd. Olympic High School in Charlotte is tackling how to create viable career pathways for students from underserved communities.
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New Pathways
Do You Know Who Your Students Know? Better Data on Students’ Networks Can Start the School Year off Right
Julia Freeland Fisher details how better data on students’ networks can start the school year off right.
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New Pathways
Home Schools Grow With New Funding Streams
A growing number of students are learning in homes. These small schools create opportunities to test new learning models, expand supportive options, and extend access to new pathways.
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Getting Through
When Humans, Not Systems, Run Schools
By: Andy Calkins. Andy discusses how the districts in NGLC's change management project have transitioned to home-based learning with rapid design of new systems and communication.
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Equity & Access
Equity and ESSER: Why You Should Prioritize Supporting Students With Disabilities With Your Federal COVID Relief Dollars
By: Sheryl Gomez and Jasmine Tucker As school leaders welcomed students back to the classroom for the 2021-22 school year, they began to determine how to spend the more than $190 billion in federal COVID relief dollars for K-12 including the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) fund. (Find out how much your state is […]
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Personalized Learning
Students Are Calling BS on High School and Opportunity Knocks
Schools talk a lot about personalizing learning, of meeting kids where they are, and yet we see most high schools continue forward with prescribed, discipline-specific courses that continues to isolate disciplines from one another despite the fact that they are highly interrelated.
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Leadership
Striving Toward a Better Accountability System
[…] learning.” Most high performing districts (earning an A or B) serve fewer economically disadvantaged students while the schools earning Ds and Fs serve many economically disadvantaged students. Back to Test Prep: The past few years, Gunter ISD has launched a massive Strategic Planning effort, securing the vision for our district for years to come. […]
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New Pathways
School Districts and Charter Authorizers Need Innovation Pathways
[…] system of discipline-based courses that dictate pedagogy, schedules, staffing, funding, progress reporting–even the eggcrate building architecture. Even after flipping to online pandemic teaching, most systems have snapped back to traditional delivery. Only now, many students are less engaged, more traumatized, have big learning gaps, or aren’t showing up at all. As we enter the […]
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Competency-Based Education
School Isn’t About Classes, It’s About Learning
By: Garrett Smiley. The easiest way for schools to ensure individual relevance and therefore counteract concerning mental health trends is by letting students lead their education through curiosity.
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Personalized Learning
Engaging Families During Distance Learning
By: Erin Gohl and Kristen Thorson. The pandemic has disrupted many of the traditional opportunities to connect and engage with families. Erin and Kristen provide ways educators can connect through distance learning.
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