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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.
Building Trust through Design Thinking
By: Sabba Quidwai and Devin Vodicka. Recent research by Dr. Quidwai found a critical connection between relational trust, collaboration, and the development of mindsets and skillsets when engaging in design thinking.
Claudette Trujillo on Implementing and Sustaining Competency-Based Education
On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Rebecca Midles sits down with Claudette Trujillo to discuss effective competency-based education.
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".
Human Work: Learn Stuff Computers Can’t Do
Learning design should be centered around the broader aims of what students can achieve and how they can solve the biggest problems facing society.
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.
Finding Your Entry Point to Mastery Learning
Chris shares two questions and two resources to help find your entry point to mastery learning.
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.
Lining Up Career Dreams with Reality
By: Dr. Suzette Lovely. Suzette discusses how to build exposure and aspirations around careers that may not currently exist.