This edWebinar will introduce activities and resources to help students hone their innovative thinking, creativity, problem-solving, and other entrepreneurial traits essential for success.
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Real-World Readiness: Career and Financial Education
This edWebinar will introduce educators to FutureSmart, a digital resource for middle school students focusing on career exploration, money management, and entrepreneurship, provided across the nation by the MassMutual Foundation.
Digital Badges Validate Skills for Special Needs Students
Individuals with special needs struggle to graduate from high school and earn a diploma, much less pursue higher education or gain meaningful employment. Sometimes, there is a skills gap between the desired career and the student’s training. Many times, though, the problem is also a communication gap. During the edWebinar “Digital Badge Credentials: Preparing Students with Special Needs for Employment,” the presenters discussed how and why digital badges can help students validate their training and verify their credentials with prospective employers.
Promoting District Priorities Through Master Scheduling Part 2: Student-Focused College and Career Readiness
In this edWebinar, hear how new master scheduling can be used to make sure all students participate in college and career readiness.
Digital Badge Credentials: Preparing Students with Special Needs for Employment
This edWebinar will explore how teachers are using Digital Badge Credentials to increase opportunities for all students, including those with autism and other special needs.
Promoting District Priorities Through Master Scheduling Part 1: Expanding Access for College and Career Readiness
This edWebinar will provide participants with a step-by-step guide to reimagining your schedule for college and career readiness.
Hidden Triggers for College and Career Success
In this edWebinar, you’ll learn the differences between upwardly mobile and downwardly mobile careers, as well as how to help students find and prepare for upwardly mobile careers.
Personalization and Teacher Engagement Play Vital Roles in College and Career Readiness
College and career readiness has grown to be a hot topic that is on the mind of every educational leader in the nation. But being college and career ready takes more than just career counseling or use of software in the classroom, it takes personalized, differentiated instruction that starts at an early age. Students must understand their unique strengths and interests, and teachers must see themselves as part of the global working world. Innovators in education shared their expertise on preparing students to be ready for the working world in a recent edWebinar.
Thinking in Action: The Power of Digital Literacy
In this edWebinar, gain a clear understanding of the four pillars of digital literacy (Equity and Access; Empowered Engagement; Ownership of Learning; and Media Expertise), along with a roadmap for success in the year ahead.
College and Career Ready! Motivate and Empower Struggling Readers in High School
In this edWebinar, high school co-teachers Elizabeth Hauser and Katherine Young demonstrate how to channel motivation to increase literacy skills in struggling adolescent students.