Today's students need deeper learning to successfully navigate the opportunities and challenges they will face in the world beyond school. Jason E. Glass, Kentucky’s Commissioner of Education and Chief Learner, said “Our best way of going about that is to change the kinds of experiences our students have in classrooms – making those experiences hands-on, authentic, meaningful and connected to the kinds of work they will need to do outside of school". Project-Based Learning (PBL) is what makes deeper learning possible.

Defined provides educators with the tools they need to implement high-quality, meaningful PBL that results in deeper learning. Our projects are connected to careers to empower students to build the future-ready skills they will need to succeed in college and careers. Our online platform provides educators with the critical PBL design elements they need to implement high-quality PBL; career-focused videos, standards-aligned performance tasks, editable research resources, assessment tools, and more.

Supporting Kentucky's 4 Pillars of Deeper Learning

Accountability and Assessment

Defined's career-connected PBL gives students the opportunity to apply their classroom knowledge and skills to real-world challenges -providing an authentic assessment of their understanding. Our online platform provides each student with a portfolio that can be used to track their individual learning plans. The portfolio is also an excellent way for students to showcase their final products to colleges and employers.

Instructional Design

Defined Learning supports your instructional design goals by providing:
• An online library of interdisciplinary, standards-aligned performance tasks
• Research Resources
• Student portfolios of their real-world
products.

Projects are built utilizing the Understanding by Design Framework® (UbD) created by nationally recognized educators Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins.

Community Partnerships

Connecting what students are learning to careers not only deepens their engagement in school but also helps them make more informed choices about their future. Defined career-connected projects provide opportunities to meaningfully engage all relevant stakeholders in students' learning journey and college and career readiness. We understand the critical role your community plays in your students' future and an intentional and ongoing local employer engagement strategy can be implemented with Defined.

Equitable Systems

Giving students early exposure to career options is a critical strategy for closing economic gaps and putting students on a path to a promising future.

Defined helps schools empower all students with equitable access to career experiences. Defined provides ALL students with opportunities to connect their deeper learning experiences to future life opportunities regardless of their socioeconomic status, gender, race/ethnicity, or language.

Comprehensive PBL Support for Kentucky Educators

Defined can help Kentucky's educators achieve the objectives of the Deeper Learning initiatives, and most importantly, prepare students for the future.

Defined Learning, an approved Kentucky Deeper Learning resource, provides a K-12 online library of PBL units that align with your state standards to save time in providing deeper learning opportunities for all students.
With Defined Careers, individual students will assess their values, study habits, and interests and then turn that exploration into experience.
Defined Academy offers skill-building courses to help educators get started and boost PBL.

Annual Bundle Pricing:

Defined Learning & Defined Careers: $5,000 per building

Annual A la carte:

Defined Learning - $4,000 per building

Defined Careers - $3,000 per building

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Nikki Bilder

Manager of Partnerships

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