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Dr. Deborah Kenny on Deeper Learning and Student Agency
Dr. Deborah Kenny on deeper learning, student agency, Montessori, IB, and why a well-educated child needs purpose, rigor, and inquiry.
Jean-Claude Brizard on the Center for Learner Pathway Innovations
Digital Promise’s new Center for Learner Pathway Innovations advances unbounded pathways, co-created design, and next-gen credentialing.
Town Hall: Experience Matters
In this town hall, Getting Smart’s Mason Pashia and Education Design Lab’s Meghan Raftery discuss the findings of their collaborative report, Experience Matters, which explores how work-based learning experiences can be better designed, documented, and communicated across education and employment. The conversation centers on a shared framework built around…
Lever 2 for Deeper PoG Implementation: Teaching the Skills Behind the Portrait
How Norwalk makes Portrait of a Graduate skills real: teach them explicitly, embed in curriculum routines, and track progress via learning walks.
NEAAAT Students on their Portrait of a Graduate
NEAT students share how a Portrait of a Graduate, pathways, and student voice build agency, confidence, and career exploration.
Experience Matters: For Employers
By adopting this framework, employers move from guessing about potential to verifying capability.
Experience Matters: For Educators
For educators, the goal of this layer is to move beyond the traditional transcript—which only captures course completion—toward validating the context of a student's capability.
Experience Matters: For Learners
This intentional process of validation and articulation is what builds confidence and self-efficacy. We are not just credentialing skills; we are empowering learners to recognize, own, and communicate their own value.
Nat Kendall-Taylor on The Power of Narrative
Nat Kendall-Taylor discusses narrative strategies, education reform, and how framing impacts systemic change in this insightful Getting Smart Podcast.
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…