Tag: career pathways
What Can the Rest of the World Teach Us about Career Pathways?
April 3rd, 2023
Back in 2014, I went to Switzerland and met a young man with a big smile and a ponytail named Luke Rhine. He was a new employee at the Delaware DOE and who knew at the time that that trip would be so catalytic in helping the state build out a new effort that we collectively called, “career pathways.” Today, we are at a new pivot point...VIEW ARTICLE
Career Pathways and the Future of American Education
March 2nd, 2023
In the last couple weeks, Opportunity America, in concert with the Walton Family Foundation, released a compendium of essays entitled, “Unlocking America’s Future.” See here for the 12 essays and a video of the release. This is a provocative mix of perspectives from the right and the left. I wrote one of them, here, entitled, “Career...VIEW ARTICLE
Reasons to Be Optimistic about the Wilmington Learning Collaborative
October 8th, 2022
Next week marks the potential next step in a multiyear process led by Governor John Carney to bring together the Wilmington community to support schools in the city. As the state’s most populous city, with a history of structural racism and persistent poverty, Wilmington often stands apart in policy conversations—especially when...VIEW ARTICLE
Supporting Delaware’s Students in the Wake of COVID
September 27th, 2022
Whether you are a parent/guardian, a student, or an educator, you have felt the academic and developmental impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the spring of 2020 and the better part of the next two years, school was disrupted. And whether a student was learning virtually or in-person, their academic and social experiences were...VIEW ARTICLE