Nā Hopena A’o Learning Outcomes in Hawai’i
Nā Hopena A’o (HĀ) are a set of learning outcomes derived from key elements of Native Hawai’ian culture.
Field Notes from Education City, Doha, Qatar
Along with Drs. Joanna Smith and Heather McClure of the University of Oregon, I recently spent 10 days exploring Education City, an international higher education hub in Doha, Qatar, on…
Valley High School | Redefining a School’s Culture Through an Awareness Campaign
Over the past year, the leadership, students, and community at Valley High School in Santa Ana, California, worked with us to clarify their vision and to create strategies to make them even more effective at moving their students toward success. Valley has amazing people doing incredible work, but through a series of interviews, listening sessions, surveys, and tours in and around the campus, we were able to gather a fairly clear picture of identity challenges that need to be addressed. Challenges such as: poor self perception and lack of school pride, community misconceptions and biases, lack of energizing visuals, branding inconsistencies, and lack of strategic messaging to the feeder schools.
Charting the Waters: Interpreting the Maine Guiding Principles Into Practice
Among my sources of inspiration are talented and insightful educators who are committed to setting up students for success – educators like those my colleague Ross Anderson and I had…
Connecting Credentials
As postsecondary credentials become a requirement for both access to a good job and advancement in a career, high school students want more value from their education—they want their education…
Rethinking College: Closing the Graduation Gap
Last week, PBS News Hour ran a weeklong series looking at innovations across the country that help more young people find their way through to a higher education degree or…
Global Citizenship: A Study in Progress
Last month, I traveled to Barcelona, Spain, to conduct a unique, mixed-methods study of metacognitive skills at the International Baccalaureate (IB) World Student Conference. I surveyed global citizenship levels among…
EPIC’s August Newsletter Is Out!
Check out EPIC’s August newsletter (and past issues) on our newsletter page. We discuss how community and partnerships are central to the work that EPIC does, with examples from recent…
Official Launch of the Epic School Partnerships Network!
On Thursday, August 13, 2015, Epic School Partnerships (ESP) officially launched the ESP Network. In partnership with the Salem-Keizer Public Schools, ESP facilitated a two-day institute with seven high school…
Spokane Public School District AVID Conference
Just got back from Rogers High School in Spokane Public School District, where I had the opportunity to speak with AVID teachers from around the area and copresent on the…