Career & Technical Ed
guidance and support
Future of Learning
Schools of the Future: Creating the Entrepreneurial Education Model
Agency, choice, and elevating learner voice requires innovation, creativity and embedding entrepreneurship in our school models.
New Pathways
Deeper Learning Requires Deeper Relationships?
Scott McLeod shares insights from visits at innovative elementary and middle schools across the country devoted to significant amounts of time for students and educators to simply be together in community.
Equity & Access
Feeling Invisible: A Response to the Affirmative Action Decision through the Lens of the Disruptive Excellence Framework
To achieve excellence and equity for Generation Z and Generation Alpha, we cannot accept the predicted outcomes from the reversal of Affirmative Action. Michael Conner shares more in his latest post.
New Pathways
Khan World School – One Year Later
Multiple education innovations are converging rapidly to build better experiences for all young people. The microschool movement, long established but accelerated by the pandemic, has led to the launch of hundreds of new small learning environments across the country. Artificial intelligence promises to improve personalizing learning, provide every…
New Pathways
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.
New Pathways
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.
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The Secret Sauce to a Successful College and Career Readiness Program
An integral part of K-12 education is preparing students to shape their own lives beyond high school, whether they choose college, technical school, or the workforce. And while there is no single recipe for this, there just might be a secret sauce.
New Pathways
ConnectED Community Partnerships Create Pathways
Designing a district-wide pathways system ensures that the majority of students get to participate in a pathways program, creating more options and opportunity to establish equity for all learners. NKC Schools, with the support of ConnectED, are making certain this is the case for all students in their district.
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Why Are New Pathways Essential?
Across the nation, leading institutions and organizations are identifying pathways as a core component of a thriving economy and a missing piece from the K-12 experience.
New Pathways
My Class Climbed a 14,000-Foot Mountain: How to Empower Students and Provide New Pathways to Learning
Narissa Stahl Holmgreen shares her class' 14,000-foot mountain journey as a healing action after George Floyd’s murder.