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Its 2019. So Why Do 21st-Century Skills Still Matter?

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EdLeader21 has developed a toolkit to guide districts and independent schools in developing their own “portrait of a graduate” as a visioning exercise. He currently serves as CEO of EdLeader21 , a national network of Battelle for Kids. What can they design that works well for their community?”

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How a Flipped Syllabus, Twitter and YouTube Made This Professor Teacher of the Year

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You’ve created what you call a “flipped syllabus,” where students start at zero and accumulate points toward their grade rather than start with a perfect score and lose points on tests and papers. If you try to have regimented exercises, every single person has to do the exact same thing. How did that come about?

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