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Transforming the Landscape of Education
By: Matt Piercy. The future of learning is all about options with greater access and equity. Matt shares how MYX offers an exploratory semester full of unique place-based learning.
Five Mega Trends Reshaping Global Learning
Imagine school as a series of community-connected projects and skill sprints that develop leadership, collaboration and problem solving skills. Imagine a web of supports that help you make the kind of contribution you’re capable of making. Visit an innovative new school like Purdue Polytechnic High School in Indianapolis,…
Guidance Gap: The Biggest Challenge We Face and How to Close It
The dynamic employment market and expanding array of high school and postsecondary learning options make advisory services mission critical. A look at the growing guidance gap and why it's crucial we work to close it.
Marni Baker Stein on What’s Next For Higher Education
On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom sits down with Marni Baker Stein to discuss the exciting work of Western Governor's University.
Digital Credentials: A Better Way to Capture and Communicate Learning
There is an invention opportunity to better credential units of learning. Listed are six opportunities to better capture and communicate learning.
Get the F Out
The pandemic has created new opportunities for how to define success for our students. It starts with getting rid of the "F".
Harmonizing with Microcredentials: 7 Steps to Reimagining Your School’s Professional Learning
In this final piece of the series, we summarize how Harmony Public Schools reinvented professional learning for their staff by putting the educator at the center and building a career pathways program awarding relevant and realistic microcredentials to in-service teachers and administrators.
Change Management at Harmony Public Schools: When Prior Innovations Become Status Quo
By: Burak Yilmaz. Through the development of a competency-based microcredential system, Harmony Public Schools has become a place where all educators with a growth mindset can thrive.
5 Ways to Support Students’ Personal Brand Equity
One of the most invaluable lifelong lessons we could impart on our students is that of the Personal Brand Equity. All of us can learn to craft and develop our Personal Brand Equity - who we are, what we have to offer, what makes us unique and how we might communicate any of this to others.
Meet the Culture Hackers: Microcredentials Aren’t Just for Students
By: Robert Thornton. Harmony Public Schools takes a competency-based approach to professional learning by awarding microcredentials to reinforce the skill-sets they believe are critical to success across a variety of roles within their system.