New Pathways
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.
A Purpose Proposal: Entrepreneurial Thinking and Sustainability Must Be Core Components of Pathways
The work-based learning pathways that incorporate apprenticeships and mentorship leading to family-sustaining wages should also include opportunities to develop entrepreneurial thinking and sustainability elements critical to a thriving and regenerative economic ecosystem.
Separate and Not Equal: Disrupting Pathway Tracks in the Post Pandemic Era
Learning organizations must become agile, iterative practices for newly designed pathways, and experimentation to scale promising systems rooted in data.
Credentialing Everything: A Primer on Learning and Employment Records and Digital Wallets
Credentials and learner records are accelerating the shift to competency-based learning and help learners manage unbundled learning by collecting evidence from multiple providers and provide quicker and more personalized onramps to high-wage employment.
Artificial Intelligence and Adaptivity to Strengthen Equity in Student Learning
Artificial intelligence has the potential to support educators and the creation of learning opportunities for each student–and educators are already using AI to adapt their work.
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.
The Power of Process In Deeper Learning: A Case Study in Scaffolding
I walked into an 8th-grade classroom engaged in introspection, reflection, and metacognition. Here's what else I saw.
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.
Collaborating with Community as Partners in Fulfilling the Promise of your Graduate Profile
Community engagement and collaboration is essential in both planning and implementing Graduate Profiles in order to fulfill the promise articulated in your profile. ACE Leadership HS partners with the community in a variety of ways; this blog focuses on a specific strategy to collaborate on curriculum design and project planning that can be adapted in many settings.
We Are All Digital Learners: Why DLAC is Perfect for You
Victoria Andrews and Rebecca Midles share their experience at the Digital Learning Annual Conference and why it's the perfect conference for you