Lots of Professional Development opportunities for educators aim to illuminate ways to personalize learning or demystify concepts like competency-based assessment and Universal Design for Learning. Participants in our Future Ready Alliance had a chance this month to learn how all three are working together at California Area School District, where educators are piloting the innovations […]
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Register for free webinar on design thinking, HCD
Educators who would like to learn the basics of design thinking and Human-Centered Design (HCD) are invited to register for a free, hour-long webinar on Wednesday, April 21 at 3:30 pm. Our trainers will give an overview and provide tips, tricks, and design methods needed to get you started using HCD in your districts, schools, […]
Consortium’s PBL trainings garner great reviews
When Cornell School District launched a program this year offering Professional Development pathways matched to teachers’ interests, the district’s Director of Technology & Instructional Innovation, Kris Hupp, wasn’t surprised to find Project-Based Learning on their wish lists. For some teachers, PBL “can be a really significant lift,” he said. “It’s really a rethinking of the […]
Consortium pilots Future Ready Leaders
The Consortium began piloting Future Ready Leaders (FRL) this spring to bring student voice to the future readiness programming school districts have undertaken, while giving participating students leadership opportunities. For several years, districts have been refining their programming to fulfil career and work learning standards reflected in the “Future Ready Index” that Pennsylvania implemented in […]
CPE History-Chapter VI
By the early 2000s, the Consortium had become an ongoing source of support for its expanding network of schools and a launchpad for initiatives aimed at addressing some of their specific concerns. Among these, at the time, were early literacy and coping with a new federal law called No Child Left Behind (NCLB) that had […]
Collaborative for Student Success participants leverage family engagement to address disparate challenges
In Burrell School District, where educators are introducing competency-based learning with sixth grade students and planning to roll it out for seventh grade, the new approach necessitates a new understanding among parents. In Cornell School District, where a sharp demographic shift has swelled English Language Learners from a few students five years ago to 10% […]
Consortium welcomes new Board member
The Community College of Allegheny County’s new Vice President for Workforce Development has joined the Consortium’s Board. Prior to her appointment, Debra Roach, Ph.D., had been a member of our Future Ready Partnerships Advisory Committee, on which she’ll continue to serve. “With our focus on future readiness for students and our role as an intermediary […]
Consortium announces succession plan
All of us at the Consortium are delighted that our Board has appointed Jackie Foor as successor for our current Executive Director, Mary Kay Babyak, who retires April 30. The two have worked as a team since Mary Kay began her tenure in 2016. That has put our organization on very solid ground as you’ll […]
Alumnus helps raise visibility for HBCUs; pays forward their tradition of mentoring
It takes a loud, clear calling for someone to leave behind a doctoral program at Carnegie Mellon University, just shy of a dissertation, and set out on an entirely different career path. Never mind that she’d already earned her Master’s, published a scientific paper as an undergrad, and interned at the Broad Institute, a research […]
Alliance kicked off workshop series
Our Future Ready Alliance began the New Year with workshops on all three of its focus areas—Student Plans, Social & Emotional Learning (SEL) and Instructional Approaches to Personalized Learning. The workshops are part of a new two-tier structure that the Alliance inaugurated in the fall. Under it, the workshops support discussions in Professional Learning Communities […]