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Improving Student Outcomes Through Work-Based Learning Opportunities

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This is done in a variety of ways, including coding and robotics camps and the use of virtual reality headsets. The pathways are defined differently, however, and the district has scaled up its organization to work effectively with more than 500 business and industry partners.

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Where is Your Learning Culture?

A Principal's Reflections

How the structure and function of a learning culture lead to improvements in achievement and outcomes is where change efforts should be focused. As I have written in the past, we are well into the 4th Industrial Revolution characterized by automation, advanced robotics, artificial intelligence, and disruptive innovation.

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The Impact of Inclusive STEM Education

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The program has since grown to reach hundreds of thousands of students over the past ten-plus years, improving district-wide opportunities and outcomes. Many industry certification opportunities are tied to the courses. The following design elements drive success with STEM programming: Everyone needs to have foundational STEM literacy.

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Innovation is More Than an Idea or Tool

A Principal's Reflections

Not only did both of these companies disrupt their respective industries, but both have evidence in the form of users and revenue to validate that their solutions were genuinely innovative. Whether to innovate or not should be driven by a challenge or problem that can be overcome in a way that leads to a better outcome.

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Top Posts of 2018

A Principal's Reflections

Another outcome is the impact that it has on readers near and far. Preparing Learners for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Change isn’t coming. Welcome to the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Begin with a focus on your work and that of others you spend your days with as a starting point. Back to the whole writing thing.

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Leading in Uncertain Times

A Principal's Reflections

Prior to COVID19, the vast amount of uncertainty in education lay in societal changes resulting from the 4th Industrial Revolution. A rapid evolution in artificial intelligence, automation, and advanced robotics should have served notice to anyone in the education space that things needed to change.

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Eight Areas to Consider as Part of Your Automation Strategy

Digital Promise

Paul Stockford, Chief Analyst, Saddletree Research, mentioned in a recent blog post that “the contact center industry will be all about automation” in 2018. Verint’s Customer Advisory Board (CAB) met earlier this month and the agenda included a session on automation, artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics.

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