Place Based Education
CTE
Future of Learning
Leaning into the Innovation Opportunity
In preparation for the next school year, school leaders need to be mindful of three innovation opportunities focusing on the success skills of thriving humans.
Future of Learning
How to Set Middle Schoolers On a Long-Term Path of Success
By: Rachel Graham. Middle school is a pivotal point for young adults and Rachel discusses how we ensure that middle schoolers receive the necessary skills and resources to set them on a long-term path to success.
Leadership
Improving Curriculum Mapping through Collaboration, Stakeholder Voice and Resources
By: Charlotte Barnett. Charlotte discusses enhancing academic rigor and building up a Career and Technical Education (CTE) education program through digital platforms.
Future of Learning
Real World Learning at Dubiski Career High School
CTE-focused high schools like Dubiski Career High School create career pathways through industry-specific academies, internships and entrepreneurship opportunities.
Future of Work
Creativity: The Secret to Success in the Trades
By: Dave Curry. Dave Curry, Director of Career and Technical Education shares the Milton Hershey School's approach to programming that offers students hands-on, technical training aligned with the current job market in preparation for 21st-century careers.
Competency-Based Education
How Career and Technical Education Can Inform Competency-Based Learning
This spring, Putnam County Schools will evaluate the impact of our Competency-Based Education pilot and the ways in which it has allowed their middle school general education teachers to implement the types of hands-on learning and authentic assessment opportunities that are commonplace in our CTE programs.
Equity & Access
Santa Ana USD Provides Next-Gen CTE Pathways
Santa Ana Unified School District has been rethinking teaching and learning to better serve their families and students. Tom and Emily share how SAUSD is creating Next-Gen pathways and improving education in their community.
Competency-Based Education
Curating a Portfolio of Student Pathways: Workspace Education
By: Robin Lake. I’ve been thinking about Workspace since I left and wondering what to make of it. It’s definitely different and meeting a need. Some families drive an hour to be there, and I can understand why.
Competency-Based Education
Evidence That Makes it Evident: Improving Assessment by Emulating the Trades
By: Elliot Washor and Charles Mojkowski. The expanded vision of the graduate has widened the gap between the competencies educators want for all graduates, and the evidence of competence educators are actually collecting. Here's one way we can begin to change that.
Post-Secondary
Ready and Working: Pathway Programs Are Changing What It Means to Be Career Ready
Career Pathways initiatives are gaining momentum in districts and among community coalitions in part because they blur the line between older, traditional “career or college” education tracks. Learn more about what these initiatives look like here.