Symposium: Building Tomorrow's Skills Today: Career-Connected Learning
Now more than ever, providing students with career-connected learning experiences helps students develop critical future-ready skills. This Symposium is a 3-part series where education leaders and administrators from across the country dive into how schools and districts are providing students with meaningful career-connected learning opportunities that build critical future-ready skills and expand career pathways.
In Session 1, PBL and STEM expert and author Jorge Valenzuela and Dr. Karen Barber, the Superintendent of Santa Rosa County School District, discuss how to engage students in project-based career-connected learning that prepares all students for future success. They delve into how to provide students with learning opportunities that help them build 21st-century and future-ready skills and provide examples of how Santa Rosa is achieving this through career-connected PBL and STEM.
Session 1 of this 3-part Symposium was held on October 1st, 2024. Please fill out the form to view Session 1.
Session 2 will be held on February 4th and Session 3 will be on February 25th, 2025. Click here to register for Sessions 2 and 3!
Featured Educators:
Session 1:
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Session 3:
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Success Stories
Spotlight
The collection of performance tasks developed by Defined Learning supports the UbD framework for curriculum, instruction and assessment. Through the utilization of ‘real world’ performance tasks and related resources, teachers engage their students in meaningful learning and authentic assessment – and that is the best preparation for the world outside of school.
Jay McTighe