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Mapping Skills for the Future
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Miller, Andrew – Educational Leadership, 2022
College- and career-readiness skills can easily get lost if you don't have a clear school-wide plan for teaching them. While curriculum in schools is primarily meant to ready students for college and career skills, ensuring those skills actually transfer is another story. Andrew Miller lays out a system for teaching and assessing key…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Skill Development, Teaching Methods
Linking Standards and Instruction--HELPS Is on the Way.
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Rothman, Robert – Educational Leadership, 1996
The High Expectations Learning Process for Standards-Driven Units of Study (HELPS) enables teachers to connect classroom teaching to standards and assessment. Workshops take teachers through a seven-step process: identifying standards, developing ideas for a culminating event, aligning this event with standards, identifying unit blocks, creating…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Performance Based Assessment, Program Descriptions
Applying OBE to Arts Education.
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Jasa, Sharon; Enger, Lin – Educational Leadership, 1994
Adopting an outcome-based system at Minnesota's State Arts High School has produced sweeping changes that transcend curriculum reorganization, ungraded report cards, and a revised daily schedule. The school prints outcomes on students' course report forms, or student learning plans; teachers indicate performance levels of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Art Education, Curriculum Development, Definitions
Career and Technology Studies: Crossing the Curriculum.
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deWijk, Susan Looman – Educational Leadership, 1996
Alberta's new Career and Technology Studies (CTS) program updates and expands existing business education, home economics, industrial education, and vocational education into an integrated curriculum for grades 7-12, reorganizing them into 22 strands. CTS is appropriate for all students and allows them to investigate concepts and technology across…
Descriptors: Business Education, Career Education, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries
Creating Excellent and Equitable Schools
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Darling-Hammond, Linda; Friedlaender, Diane – Educational Leadership, 2008
Educators Linda Darling-Hammond and Diane Friedlaender share findings from their recent report highlighting five California high schools that have beaten the odds in supporting the success of low-income students of color. Animo Inglewood Charter High School, Stanley E. Foster Construction Tech Academy, June Jordan School for Equity, Leadership…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Excellence in Education, Low Income Groups, High Risk Students
Assessment as the Catalyst of School Reform.
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Simmons, Warren; Resnick, Lauren – Educational Leadership, 1993
New Standards Project is consortium of 17 states and 6 leading school districts working with cluster of specialists to design and implement system of performance standards, authentic assessments, and professional development aimed at improving educational equity and excellence. New matrix examinations and portfolios will yield results that can be…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Consortia, Cooperative Programs, Curriculum Development