June 4, 2018
Straight A's: High School Grad Rates and Their Effect on the Economy
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on the American Economy
By Bob Wise | | How does an individual's decision to drop out of high school affect the rest of us? And, conversely, how does a student graduating from high school benefit all of us? Those were the questions the Alliance for Excellent Education (All4Ed) sought to answer when it began working on an economic model that would demonstrate the economic impact of a 90 percent high school graduation rate. | | | | |  https://salsa4.salsalabs.com/o/50932/images/Twitter_Logo_Blue-1.png" alt="" class="CToWUd" width="20" /> Click to Tweet: @All4Ed President @BobWise48 on High School Graduation Rates and Their Effect on the American Economy #GradEffect bit.ly/2wY8LEo |
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|  https://all4ed.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/AMERICANED_SKYLINE_081-e1526579767877.jpg" alt="" style="font-family:Arial;color:#666666;font-size:14px;" class="CToWUd" width="85" height="55" border="0" /> | | Deeper Learning Digest: Don't Forget This Deeper Learning Skill | | When we talk about deeper learning skills, we focus on critical thinking, problem solving, working collaboratively, communicating effectively, learning-to-learn, and academic mindsets, but there's one piece we are leaving out. | | | | https://salsa4.salsalabs.com/o/50932/images/Twitter_Logo_Blue-1.png" alt="" class="CToWUd" width="20" /> Click to Tweet: @DeeperLearning Digest from @All4Ed: Don't Forget This #DeeperLearning Skill bit.ly/2LkvfTu |
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| Coming Soon | | TODAY! Future Ready Coaches: Student-Centered Initiatives |  https://salsa4.salsalabs.com/o/50932/images/may-22-web.png" style="padding-right:20px;padding-bottom:30px;" alt="" class="CToWUd" width="143" height="143" align="left" />Future Ready Schools® (FRS) instructional coaches are essential to the continued growth and development of customized professional learning for their schools and districts. This webinar explores ways that Chris Aviles, coordinator of innovation, technology, and twenty-first-century skills for Fair Haven Public Schools in New Jersey, is challenging the status quo as it relates to what a technology class should be and what technology integration looks like in the classroom. |
| | | | Future Ready Schools®: Raising Readers to Leaders, One Page at a Time |  https://salsa4.salsalabs.com/o/50932/images/web-may-31.png" style="padding-right:20px;padding-bottom:30px;" alt="" class="CToWUd" width="143" height="143" align="left" />In this webinar, members of the California’s Val Verde Unified School District (VVUSD) leadership team will share how they used the five-step Future Ready Schools (FRS) planning process to create their district’s FRS action plan. They will describe the process used during their two years of intense planning and collaboration with various departments within the district, along with input from parent groups. Through this systematic research-based process, they created a dynamic plan that puts their students first and provides them with opportunities to acquire twenty-first-century career skills that will carry them into the future. |
| | | | Agents of Their Own Success: Self-Advocacy Skills and Self-Determination for Students with Disabilities in the Era of Personalized Learning |  https://salsa4.salsalabs.com/o/50932/images/web-june-5.png" style="padding-right:20px;padding-bottom:30px;" alt="" class="CToWUd" width="143" height="143" align="left" />During this briefing, a group of distinguished panelists will offer actions that students, parents, community members, educators, and policymakers can take to ensure self-advocacy and self-determination are integrated into personalized learning systems, especially for students with disabilities, who will have to more proactively advocate for their needs in higher education, the workforce, and community life. |
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| | |  https://all4ed.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/GradEffect-webinar.jpg" alt="Insert alt text here" style="color:#666666;font-family:Helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" class="m_4665962401772327628img-max CToWUd" width="460" height="290" border="0" /> | | The Graduation Effect: High School Graduation Rates and Their Effect on the American Economy | | During this webinar, All4Ed release new economic data demonstrating the economic impact of increasing the high school graduation rate to 90 percent. Webinar panelists discussed how to provide a high-quality education to all students and what meeting such a goal would mean for the country—how individual lives would be transformed, communities would be strengthened, and the nation’s economy would be enriched. Panelists also examines actions that educators, business leaders, community members and others can take to close gaps in opportunity and raise achievement, especially among students of color and other historically underserved students who currently make up more that 50 percent of the nation’s K-12 students. Panelists: Lillian M. Lowery, Vice President for P–12 Policy and Practice, The Education Trust, Gilbert Zavala, Vice President of Education and Talent Development, Austin Chamber of Commerce, and Bob Wise, President, All4Ed. |
| | | | Miss a Webinar? | | All4Ed records all of its webinars and makes the video available "on demand" |
| | | | | | Looking for meeting space? Want to broadcast you own webinar? | Visit all4ed.org/studio/ to learn how you can rent All4Ed's conference space or studio to host your organization's next event.
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| The Every Student Succeeds Act |
| |  https://all4ed.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Dashboard-Thumbnail2-232x300.png" style="padding-right:20px;padding-bottom:60px;" alt="" class="CToWUd" width="143" hspace="10" height="185" align="left" /> To keep you up to date on the latest happenings with the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and its implementation, the Alliance for Excellent Education has created a series of bite-sized materials – both print and video – that provide concise but comprehensive analyses of several key areas within ESSA. | | |
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| | |  https://salsa4.salsalabs.com/o/50932/images/ed-dive-rec.png" style="border:0px;" alt="" class="CToWUd" width="219" height="125" />Student activists discuss being 'changed forever' by gun violence Education Dive |
 https://salsa4.salsalabs.com/o/50932/images/chalkbeat-rec.png" style="border:0px;" alt="" class="CToWUd" width="219" height="125" />In New York, students of color lack access to advanced coursework, new analysis finds Chalkbeat |
| | |  https://salsa4.salsalabs.com/o/50932/images/npr-rec-2.png" style="border:0px;" alt="" class="CToWUd" width="219" height="125" />Teaching Matters NPR |
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