Ed Leaders: Your Path Out of COVID to a Radically Better Future Is Hiding in Plain Sight
New research from 70 schools and districts suggests a path forward: tuning our learning models and operating norms to the competencies we most want for our students.
How to Ensure Learning and Employment Records are Designed With and For Learners
With the promising benefit of LER systems for learners, comes much to understand in how we might include the experience and input of learners—especially those most marginalized or following diverse pathways—in the design, implementation, and evaluation of LER technology.
Town Hall Recap: Learning Goals that Matter: Bringing to Life a Shared Vision For Your Graduates & Community
At the recent Getting Smart Town Hall we covered learning goals, design principles and shared vision statements.
Melissa Byrne on Connecting a Learner Profile to Pathways and Postsecondary Workforce Readiness
In this episode, Melissa Byrne tells how the district's innovative Framework 220 empowers students to achieve personal excellence and prepare for future careers.
Measuring Learning Growth: Competencies and Standards
The role of competencies has become increasingly important as employers, students and educators realize the impact of transferable skill deficit in young people. The challenge, however, becomes implementation.
Microsoft: TakeLessons and TEALS
Rachelle Dené Poth details the recent acquisitions and expansions from Microsoft.
The Future of High School
Nate McClennen explores the patterns emerging in high school redesign efforts and the journey ahead.
Five Building Blocks in the New Architecture of High Schools
Tom explores how innovative schools intentionally use five learner experience systems to develop and demonstrate competencies.
Where Does Work to Imagine a Learner-Centered Ecosystem Begin?
While learner-centered ecosystems can begin in a variety of ways, establishing key people, practices, connections, or conditions to build upon is one approach to developing a strong foundation.
Building Community and Social-Emotional Learning in the New School Year
Rachelle Dené Poth shares ideas for building a learning community in the new school year.