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By: Kevin Dahill-Fuchel
Children spend only 20 percent of their time in school between kindergarten and 12th grade. One-fifth of the day. Everything educators are asked to accomplish, academic growth, social development, and taught skills for adulthood, has to happen in that narrow window. And children need to be ready to learn.
The other 80 perce...
By: Michael Crawford
A charter school for opportunity youth in St. Paul. A comprehensive public high school in rural Indiana. A competency-based school in Philadelphia. A design-focused school in suburban Los Angeles. A profession-based program in an Iowa community.
These schools share almost nothing on paper: not size, not population, not ped...
My former colleague and artful educator, Alcine Mumby, always used to say, “teachers cannot be expected to teach what they don’t know or have never experienced themselves…”, and this has rung true for me in my own experience as well as what I witness in workin...
By: Stephen Griffin
Imagine it’s 2030. A student enrolls in a supply chain management program at her local community college. Before she registers for her first course, she can see — clearly, in plain language — exactly which competencies she’ll build, how those competencies map to open positions at regional employers, and what her peers wh...
By: Beth Davis-Dillard
The United States is navigating a math crisis. In 2024, only 39% of fourth graders and 28% of eighth graders were proficient in math on the NAEP. While these figures are influenced by multiple socioeconomi...