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Two Developments in Middle Grade Career Exploration
Two-thirds of current high schoolers and graduates say they would have benefited from more career exploration in middle or high school according to ASA research. Here are two innovative approaches to addressing this guidance gap.
From Classroom to Adulthood: The Importance of Talent Development from an Early Age
Instead of focusing solely on passing state assessments, remediating to address gaps, or identifying students for advanced academic programming, schools must become a place where all children can develop their talents.
Tacoma Adding More Personalized Learning Opportunities
Rebecca Midles shares how Tacoma Public Schools has taken a collaborative approach to developing its choice schools, working with teachers, parents, and community members to create schools that reflect the needs and interests of the local community.
Recording Arts as Reengagement, Social Justice and Pathway
David “TC” Ellis dreamed about a new kind of high school that would reengage learners through musicology and alongside colleagues opened the High School for Recording Arts in 1998. Getting Smart staff shares more on this journey.
E.A.R.N. The Right: Empowering At-Risk Youth with Opportunity
Antonio Boyd sits with Joe Sicilio, Coach Joe and founder of EARN the Right, for a Q&A about the program.
Mobilizing the Higher Education Community to Support P-12 Pandemic Recovery
In May 2023, the U.S. Department of Education issued a call to action encouraging higher education institutions to engage more college students in evidence-based, high-impact P-12 support roles through Federal Work-Study jobs and other pathways to community service. Colleges and universities can answer the call to action, and receive support and recognition for their efforts, by joining the National Partnership for Student Success’s Higher Education Coalition.
Collaborating with Community as Partners in Fulfilling the Promise of your Graduate Profile
Community engagement and collaboration is essential in both planning and implementing Graduate Profiles in order to fulfill the promise articulated in your profile. ACE Leadership HS partners with the community in a variety of ways; this blog focuses on a specific strategy to collaborate on curriculum design and project planning that can be adapted in many settings.
Community Partnerships and School-Adjacent Experiences Are Powerful Ways to Rebundle Learning
In communities nationwide, a growing range of free and low-cost learning opportunities outside of school are enriching children’s lives beyond their traditional curriculum, but parents need to be able to access them and to feel comfortable operating in the spaces where this learning happens.
Collaborative Conversations to Shephard Communities Forward, Together
Rebecca Midles and Kelly Niccolls explore how school systems set the future of communities and the urgency of intentional design of community building for our learners.
Remake Learning Days Across America: Sixteen Regions Across America Join Pittsburgh to Celebrate Learning
Remake Learning Days serves as a change agent to help communities design the future they envision, for families to be engaged in their child’s learning and for youth to lead the way on an unknown path for a bright future.