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What might high school career readiness look like if those career experiences were designed by the students themselves?  Each year, the students in the Consortium’s Future Ready Leaders (FRL) program tackle that very question. Working alongside teachers and counselors, students draw on their own experiences and expertise to co-create career-related learning opportunities for their peers. […]

The success and impact of project-based learning often lies in the little details of instructional design:  how to craft an effective driving question; how to facilitate feedback between students; or how to guide students through a structured brainstorming process. Our Project-Based Learning (PBL) Resources dig into all of those small, but mighty strategies that help [...]

Partner4Work’s new Career Ready Allegheny website has something for everyone with an interest in connecting our region’s youth to opportunities for career learning. Launched in September, the site offers employers options for connecting with schools and young talent as well as resources for structuring work-based learning experiences.  It also puts the Pennsylvania Department of Education’s […]

This month, science teachers from schools across the region gathered at a recent Consortium workshop with a specific challenge in mind:  “How might we translate the new PA STEELS standards into action in our classrooms?”   The solution that teachers found: Design Thinking and Human-Centered Design (HCD).   Science standards in Pennsylvania will be making a seismic […]

Education is a deeply human-centered endeavor. Know your students well, and you’ll be better able to create learning experiences that meet their needs; co-design those experiences with your fellow educators and you’ve got the Consortium’s Act 45 course:  Using Human-Centered Design to Support Student Growth and Achievement.  Now in its second cohort, seven new school […]

Students and educators looking to learn more about careers across all 16 career clusters without leaving their schools and homes can explore over 100 informal interviews included in the Consortium’s Career Journeys video library. Viewers can learn more about careers that may be unfamiliar to them as an early career exploration exercise to help refine [...]

The Math & Science Collaborative at the Allegheny Intermediate Unit 3  created a digital playbook to document and share the work done to support educators as they work to develop STEM+C (science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and computer science) skills in students. As part of this work, the Consortium was proud to provide Project-Based Learning (PBL) [...]

After the kind of backstage visit that the Bitz Opera Factory offers only rarely, Clairton City Elementary School Music Teacher Kevin Danchik wrote a letter of thanks saying that “the experience has opened new vistas” for the students who accompanied him, contributing to their “growth as young musicians.” Most exciting were the opportunities students had […]

Explore our series of Design Thinking for Education Explainer Videos for a walk-through of a variety of strategies to use with students or adults. The methods support a wide variety of efforts to personalize learning, cultivate competencies in many Portraits of a Graduate, and encourage collaborative problem solving that focuses on serving people.

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, students all over the country suffered in their academic progress, and those at Clairton City School District were no exception. With evidence that tutoring could make a real difference for these students, but lacking staff to provide such intensive services, the Eden Hall Foundation, with the Consortium as its partner, decided […]