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Online Learning as a Viable Option For Building Real Time Skills
By: Paul LeBlanc. The question is no longer whether online learning is a viable option, but which pathway matches your needs and can help you develop necessary life and career skills.
K-12 Milestones: What Should Students Know and Be Able to Do and When?
A school board director asked us what the major milestones in K-12 are on a recent school visit, so here is a list created from several sources detailing what K12 students should know, be able to do and when.
Dropping out of High School? Go to College Instead
By: Emily Froimson. Dual enrollment many times offers low-income students an opportunity to keep pace with their peers and complete college on time.
How Can You Truly Meet Students Where They Are?
By: Karla Phillips. Meeting students where they are in education may mean redesigning schools away from an age-based grade level system into a competency-based one.
Five Things for Big Districts to Think About
After speaking with district leaders, here are five thoughts on how big districts can move forward toward personalized, competency-based education.
5 Best Practices to Globalize Your School
By: David Young. If global learning opportunities are core to being college- and career-ready, why are they not offered widely in K-12 classrooms? How do we provide global learning to more K-12 classrooms to equitably prepare all students? Here are five real examples to follow.
Learning is Happening Everywhere–Let’s Embrace That
By: David Blake. As a rising generation of learners progress within their careers, they increasingly look beyond formal education to develop, sharpen and learn new skills. But despite the fact that learning is happening in every way and everywhere, measuring it is not happening--and it should.
Goal 2025: 60% of Americans with Degrees
The Lumina Foundation is leading and supporting American efforts to boost college degree completion from about 40% to 60% by 2025. The Indianapolis-based foundation is focused on quality degrees as well as recognized job credentials.
Badging for Business: Next-Gen Professional Learning in the Workplace
In this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Intrepid Learning makes the case that professional learning should not only deliver value to businesses with innovative approaches to PD, but also provide next-gen employees with credentialing that can be carried throughout their careers.
Generic vs Coherent Teacher Prep
We’ve inherited sedimentary layers of local, state and federal EdPolicy--not system designed to prepare young people for the idea economy and not an easy system in which to teach. In contrast we know that good schools are coherent--everything is mission-aligned to benefit teachers and students. The benefits of purpose-built coherent teacher preparation hold the potential to extend quality learning for all teachers and students.