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Catalyzing Mastery-Based Learning: NYC’s Mastery Collaborative
As part of my NYC Mastering Mastery-Based Learning tour series, this blog discusses how the NYC Department of Education created the Mastery Collaborative to support schools ready to take on the new frontier of mastery-based learning.
Career Awareness: Start Early, Go Online, Get Work Experience
Every young person deserves broad exposure to career options starting in middle school such as access to online resources, good advice, work experiences, career and technical options and maker experiences.
Preparing Students for the Gig Economy, Automation and Uncertainty
By: Marc Tucker. Today's students will graduate into a much different world than their parents. So today's schools need to provide students with experiences, environments and mentors to prepare them for the new workforce.
Part 1: What Does it REALLY Mean to Do Standards-Based Grading?
The first blog in a two part series exploring how a district can implement high quality standards-based grading, and when it is the right time to do so.
Looking Under the Hood
A review of the AIR and NMEF research study that examines the relationship between CBE practices and changes in learning capacities, such as the skills, behaviors and dispositions that enhance student capacity to learn in school.
Superintendents Aim to Redefine Readiness
The national Redefining Ready! campaign launched by the American Association of School Administrators introduces new research-based metrics to more fully communicate student readiness for college, careers and life.
5 Classroom Skills Graduates Can Take to the Workforce
By: Caroline Schmidt. The classroom gives future young professionals a chance to develop basic skills into employable qualities before even stepping foot in an office. Here are 5 skills new graduates can take to the workforce.
Does Your Curriculum Have a Growth Mindset?
By: Susan Santone. Cultural relevance and social action can help kids shift the narrative of their lives and futures, encouraging their optimism, agency and collaboration--all elements of the growth mindsets needed for academic and SEL development.
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.
Getting Smart on Global Education and Equity
VIF International Education and Getting Smart partnered to examine the characteristics of globally competent students closely and address how K-12 institutions can utilize global education practices to equitably prepare all students for success.