Look Out Disney, Here We Come!
The EPIC Bridge the Divide team is off to the 35th annual First-Year Experience and Students in Transition Conference in the City That the Mouse Built (Orlando) from Feb 21–23.…
Tools for Collaboration: Convergent Consensus
In the context of education, the word “collaboration” may conjure up images of small groups of students working together to solve a problem. Or we may think of multiple stakeholders…
Sauk Valley Keynote – A Smashing Success
Kirsten Aspengren, EPIC’s Senior Director, was the keynote speaker at the PASS College and Career Summit held at Sauk Valley Community College in Dixon, IL. PASS (Partnership Advocating Student Success) is an initiative to…
Analyze, Align, Partner: A Look at South Carolina’s College and Career Readiness Toolkit
In 2014, the Center of Excellence for College and Career Readiness was established at Francis Marion University in Florence, South Carolina, as a professional development initiative funded by the South…
Proficiency-Based Teaching and Learning: Supporting Teachers and Helping Students Show What They Know
Proficiency-based teaching and learning (PBTL) is a systems-level approach to teaching, assessing, and grading students, with the goal of allowing students to demonstrate proficiency with an explicit set of standards.…
Resolving to Set SMART Goals for the New Year
It’s the time of year where many of us are making resolutions and setting goals for the coming year. For many of us, this process begins and ends with stating…
Identifying and Using a Framework for College and Career Readiness
Yesterday I presented to over 60 educators and community members in Tulare County specific to using a framework for college and career readiness. During the conversation, we discussed the need…
Education Down Under
Earlier this month, I traveled 9,196 miles (14,800 km) to Fremantle in Western Australia to attend the Australian Association of Research in Education (AARE), which parallels the American Educational Research…
AVID National Conference Adventures
Several of us on the Epic School Partnerships team just returned from the AVID National Conference in San Diego where we not only had an opportunity to learn from some…
Do Students Have Too Many Choices?
In an October 1st, 2015, Washington Post blog about choices, Jay Matthews talks about the community college as a popular starting point for college entrants. However, the numbers that follow…