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What Matters Gets Measured: Defining and Evaluating Student Goals

Defined Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Schools and districts must establish, measure, and assess PoG attributes and one easy way to do that is through Project-Based Learning. Portrait of a Graduate (PoG) competencies — such as communication, critical thinking, collaboration, and problem-solving — are crucial for student success beyond school.

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How to Prepare CTE Students for Technology’s Changing Landscape

Defined Learning

JUNE 23, 2022

However, is this really what is happening nationwide, and are Career and Technical Education (CTE) teachers included in the “trickle-down” process of PD? Districts across the country revise and rewrite their academic visions, goals, and strategic plans every year.

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Becoming Financially Literate

Defined Learning

APRIL 14, 2022

In many schools across the country, we are starting to see an increased focus on the importance of financial literacy. April is Financial Literacy Month, a time to focus on helping students to develop essential skills that will be an important part of their everyday life, not just in the future , but now.

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Keeping Girls in STEM: 5 Engaging Math Projects

Defined Learning

OCTOBER 7, 2022

October 11 th is International Day of the Girl Child and it provides a good opportunity to make sure your female students are engaging in STEM and being exposed to STEM careers. Now that students are back in the school routine, it is the perfect time to ramp up the energy in your classroom with PBL.

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Building Future Ready Skills through Defined Careers

Defined Learning

JULY 27, 2023

We continue to hear there is a skill deficiency for young adults coming out of high school and college. Yet, what specific skills are needed and how can learners build those skills in a meaningful way that will help them find their purpose and passion to drive success for the future?

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Driving Student Outcomes Through Competency-Based Learning

Defined Learning

JANUARY 24, 2024

Learn how Linday Unified School District, a rural school district located in California, created and implemented a competency-based, project-based learning system with the help of Defined Learning.

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Building Career Aspirations in STEM: Helping Students See Their Future Selves

Defined Learning

JANUARY 9, 2023

For almost a decade I’ve started the school year by asking my urban elementary students to draw a picture of what they think a scientist does at work all day. When I walk around the room, I often see pictures of white-haired men dressed in lab coats working at a lab bench mixing chemicals.

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Planning for the Future: Exploring Careers Through Real-World Learning

Defined Learning

JULY 7, 2023

Jobs are changing, technology is becoming even more advanced and careers that exist today may not be needed in the future. The world is constantly evolving and the skills that are in demand now may not be needed five years from now.

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Greater Impact with High-Quality Instructional Materials

Defined Learning

APRIL 10, 2023

High Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM) are educational resources that have been developed and reviewed to be of high quality, rigor, and alignment with academic content standards.

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Boosting Student Engagement and Motivation: PBL Connections in a Recent Survey and John Hattie's New Book

Defined Learning

MARCH 28, 2023

connect to project-based learning. You may have seen some recent headlines about a survey of teenagers in the U.S. The most common takeaway was that "the chance to redo assignments" was the number one pick for what would motivate teens to work harder in school. But if you look at the rest of the top ten picks, eight of them (!!)

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Essential Future-Ready Skills Developed Through PBL

Defined Learning

JUNE 9, 2023

In most school districts standards and state-testing drive most curricula and classroom instruction, however, many leaders are incorporating a focus to help students succeed beyond school.

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Leveraging Technology to Engage Students in Meaningful Career-Focused Learning

Defined Learning

MAY 12, 2022

There, he got a taste for Project-Based Learning (PBL) and curriculum development with an Understanding by Design (UbD) focus and began to feel a shift in his instructional journey. Frustrated with the educational system, Tupper resigned and took a job teaching at Korea International School on Jeju, Island, South Korea.

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