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Charting the Path for Personalized Learning By Planning Backward
With the growing interest in unpacking learning models and refining teaching and learning frameworks, foundational learning practices are resurfacing in conversations about personalized learning.
Creating New Pathways of Prosperity for All
Accelerating the urgency to dismantle the current iteration of high school verticals is a necessity to reach ALL. Accelerating the urgency to dismantle the current iteration of high school verticals is a necessity to reach every learner but how do we demystify and dismantle a systemic quandary that has plagued Black and Brown students historically in education?
Our Learning Future from A to Z
Schools and organizations are human systems, filled with opportunities and yet there is a profound difference between building from a foundation of schooling and building from a foundation of learning.
Skillsline: Developing Career-Ready Human Skills
The Skillsline learning model is based on an online suite of 10-minute micro-lessons using a Socratic learning method, with wrap-around acilitation supports such as instructor guides, discussion questions, and journal prompts.
When Preparing Kids for Their Future, Should We Lead with the Destination?
Every educator wants their students to be prepared for the future, but the traditional approach to career readiness isn’t working. There’s a better way.
The Learner-Centered Competency-Based Learning Management System
Through our partner work with XQ Institute, we identified core criteria that any next-generation LMS should incorporate.
Eyes on The Horizon: Where Industry and Education Meet
Join panelists at the Horizons annual summit hosted by Jobs For the future to learn what each sector is contributing to the future of education and workforce development.
New Problems, Diverse Teams, Smart Tools
Every secondary and postsecondary learner deserves at least a couple of cycles each year of opportunity spotting, team-based solution designing, and feeling the satisfaction of delivering public impact.
How Teacher Beliefs Transform Student Outcomes: The Impact of Collective Educator Agency
At AVID, we’ve learned that when educators believe in their ability to act and that their action will bring about the desired outcome, they become even more efficient and effective. With collective educator agency, educators take intentional actions grounded in the belief that together, they can support all students in being academically successful.
Four Key Lessons from Utah for Accelerating and Expanding Learner-Centered Education
Policymakers and practitioners regularly stated that the country couldn’t afford to simply revert to our traditional, industrial-era approach to education. What can be done to take advantage of this opportunity and transform and reinvent our K-12 system into something better?