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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.
From Classroom to Career: Mastering Real-World Competencies through Alternative Learning
Russell Cailey shares his insights on the benefits of alternative approaches to learning in response to traditional education models and their inability to adapt to the students of the 21st century.
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.
Measuring Learning Growth: Competencies and Standards
The role of competencies has become increasingly important as employers, students and educators realize the impact of transferable skill deficit in young people. The challenge, however, becomes implementation.
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?
Unbundled Learning
This publication from Getting Smart highlights unbundling and rebundling learning experiences for powerful, community driven learning.
Amplifying Student Voice to Design the Vision for Learning
The iterative process of launching a microschool is challenging, but continuously engaging student voice in the process can elevate student learning and create shared ownership in a vision for learning.
Five Building Blocks in the New Architecture of High Schools
Tom explores how innovative schools intentionally use five learner experience systems to develop and demonstrate competencies.
The Future of Work: Assessing Skills Essential for Success
What implications does the changing nature of work (the future of work) have for K-12 and post-secondary education?
New Metrics for Success
Cameron Paterson explores the way schools and universities quantify the educational achievements of young people and how the school system is too narrowly fixated on test results as a measure of student achievement.