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On one of our most recent town halls, Next Generation Learning Goals: What Should Students Know we focused much of the conversation on skills frameworks, portraits of a graduate and conversations about the VUCA future. We also discussed that when learners develop skills, they simultaneously need to develop the confidence to articulate their strengths and areasContinue reading “Skillsline: Developing Career-Ready Human Skills”

Communities play a significant role in providing support and guidance to students as they explore who they are and the impact they want to make in the world. Developing connections between education, businesses, organizations, and other community stakeholders promote student success and can meet the workforce needs of a region. Students who participate in work-basedContinue reading “ConnectED Community Partnerships Create Pathways”

On April 23-25, 2023, 2000 people from 47 states and 12 nations spanning five continents came together as one community at the Carnegie Summit 2023 in San Diego. This event marked the 10th anniversary of the Carnegie Summit on Improvement in Education, an annual convening of a community of improvers to connect, share work, learn,Continue reading “Carnegie Summit 2023: Improvement For All”

By: Teddy Hartmart Social media’s impact on youth’s well-being has become a top concern for lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. With growing concerns over mental health, misinformation, and data privacy, policymakers have placed social media giants in their sights through legislation like KOSA or congressional hearings. A more recent and drastic attempt to thwartContinue reading “Balancing Act: Preserving Children’s Rights in the Digital Age”

Conferences must center learners. In beautiful San Diego, at the 10th anniversary Deeper Learning Conference, attendees were welcomed with an open-air pop-up shop where student entrepreneurs sold carefully crafted goods (shoutout to Quinn’s Creations for clay earrings) and shared their varied stories of design and learning. It was evident from the onset that this conference, hosted by HighContinue reading “Getting Deep at Deeper Learning”

What is accountability?         “Own your own learning, become better at it.”         “Reliability, you can get your work done in a good way.”         “To speak up for yourself.”         “Mutual trust between educator and learner.”         “The willingness to ask questions and take action for yourself.” These thoughts, by students from Northern Cass School District, north of Fargo,Continue reading “Rural Places, Big Visions – a visit to Northern Cass School District”

Next week in Dallas, GSV will convene innovative and forward-thinking minds in education, business, technology and industry for the inaugural SMU+GSV Mission Summit. The three-day conference is packed full of powerful keynotes, networking opportunities and interactive sessions aimed at accelerating ideas that combine purpose and profits and changing the world for good. Getting Smart is proud toContinue reading “SMU+GSV Mission Summit: On a Mission to Change the World for Good”

Our goal for students with disabilities is to lay a foundation for personalized learning pathways. But first, we must dismantle the longstanding myths that constructed the barriers we will have to tear down. So, let’s start with the facts. FACT: 14% of all U.S. students have a disability.  And this doesn’t include the 2.7% of students who haveContinue reading “Special Education Myth Busting”

“The ability to take data — to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it — that’s going to be a hugely important skill in the next decades.”    – Hal Varian, chief economist at Google Data is everywhere. K-12 students need to learnContinue reading “Data Science Must Be Embedded in K12 Education”

You’re from Hawai’i?” is usually quick to be trailed by paradisiacal comments. Yet, it would be foolhardy to not consider how even the regular reflection, refraction, and dispersion of light require rain to result in multicolored circular arcs across the sky. Such realization and a bend on reality are at the foundation of Alek Kaune’sContinue reading “Durable Skills in Action”