Five Key Post-Secondary Preparations

  Bridging The Greatest Opportunity Divide The heart of Amy Carrier’s model and mission. This work is copyrighted 2012-2016 © Perhaps the greatest opportunity divide that exists for all American K-12 public school students is the unsupported transition between high school and adulthood. Students are ill-prepared and sent into the world without adequate knowledge, skills, and…

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The Case for Innovation in School Systems NOW

Our current education system has changed little since the industrial revolution in America. The system as it exists was designed to meet the needs of a society that existed over 100 years ago. Designed by business leaders to meet the needs of the new booming factory town times in America, schools were built to meet the…

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Differentiation for Real Life (Part 1)

Student-centered. Differentiated. Tailored instruction. Individualized learning plans.  No matter what you call it, we’re talking about helping our students take different avenues to the same learning objective. Each of these buzzwords and phrases suggests that we teach in such a way that we are reaching – and having an important impact on – the individual…

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Amy Carrier’s 5 minute IGNITE presentation with audio

Finally turned my slides from my 2013 IGNITE presentation at the 2013 National Institute for Student Centered Education INSPIRE conference into a SlideShare presentation with audio… only to learn that they are disabling the audio track feature as of Friday 2/28. ***So get it while you can!*** Five minutes of your time gets you a…

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