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Prepared for tomorrow: Reimagining readiness in Indiana education

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As schools, districts, and policymakers grapple with the realities of a rapidly evolving workforce that requires discipline-specific knowledge, high-tech know-how, and hands-on skills, there is a growing recognition that the traditional approaches to preparing students for the real world no longer suffice.

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This art teacher helps students harness social media to build job skills

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Metropolitan Soundview High School had no art program when Cheriece White took a job there 10 years ago. That prompted White to shift again, developing a curriculum on social media design and content creation. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters.

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Curriculum Design is Emotional Work—This Teacher Makes It Easier

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When school leadership made this announcement in August during our staff training, I immediately felt overwhelmed and confused. I was a first year math teacher placed at a brand new, alternative high school serving at-risk youth in New York City. If that sounds like a lot of work, it was. Kiddom's Planner.

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4 Strategies Designed to Drive Metacognitive Thinking

Catlin Tucker

The ability to think about what we are learning, how we are learning, what we want to learn in the future are important skills that must be explicitly taught in classrooms. Teaching metacognitive skills that encourage students to become more aware of their learning can help them shift from passive to active participants in the classroom.

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This tech academy is using project-based learning to close the STEM gap

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Across the country, more and more schools are implementing project-based learning and forging partnerships with businesses to help students build real-world skills to succeed in college and the workforce. Take Chicago’s Chicago Tech Academy High School for example.

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Friday 5: STEAM education in action

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School makerspaces have emerged as centers of creativity, problem solving, collaboration, and more. These skills–often referred to as soft skills, but also known as durable skills for their importance in the workplace–are a focus of 21st-century classrooms. You can’t have one without the other.

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Are gifted students now an underserved population?

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He is the program director and co-founder of Pioneer Academics , which identifies and empowers high-achieving students with university professors so they can take part in challenging and creative research opportunities across a wide range of disciplines while still in high school.

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