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So, Your District Wants Personalized Learning… Where Do You Start?
Explore how to do personalized learning effectively. Transform your educational system into one that truly values student outcomes.
How to Leverage CTE for Durable, Personalized Pathways
The rise and spread of CTE is an education success story. With 98% of school districts offering some kind of CTE programs and over 11.2 million students enrolled across the country, these programs are exposing learners to new careers, skills and possibilities at a remarkable scale. States…
The Architecture of Ability: How Evidence-Centered Design and UDL Can Shape AI-Era Assessment
ECD, UDL, and The Cow Path Educational measurement is at a crossroads. Multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) finally opens a pathway to move beyond the industrial-era, one-size-fits-all summative test in favor of unobtrusive, agentic, and adaptive assessment. But directing raw computing power at children without guardrails is ill-advised. Using…
Experience Matters: A Common Language for Talent, Trust, and Economic Mobility
This report from Getting Smart and Education Design Lab proposes a Common Language of Experience—a robust, interoperable framework for evaluating, designing, and articulating experience value across any context.
Why PBL and 21st Century Skills Aren’t “Add-Ons”: Using AI to Prove They’re in the Standards
AI reveals that PBL and 21st-century skills aren't "add-ons" but are already embedded in CCSS and NGSS, transforming how we view modern teaching.
The CHOICE We Make: The Critically Human Skills That Define Our Future
Explore the CHOICE framework for critically human skills and redefine education to foster agency, compassion, and integrity in an AI-driven world.
Measuring What Matters and Doing it Well: Innovating Assessment in the AI Era
Imagine a student finishing a test feeling more capable. To assess is, intrinsically, to teach and to learn. It is time to build the GPS our students deserve.
A Revelatory Mindset – what is it, and why might it be transformative for learners?
A Revelatory Mindset fosters curiosity, humility, connection, and alignment, enabling learners and educators to embrace awe, growth, and authentic relationships.
What if Proficiency is not Proficient? The Case for Calibration
Calibration ensures consistent, equitable assessments in CBE. Learn why shared judgment is essential for personalized, competency-based systems.
Taking Stock: Reflections on Upgrading the Quality and Explainability of Educational Measurement in the AI Era
How might we upgrade the quality and explainability of educational measurement in the AI Era?