21st Century Education Initiative - "You Should Care..."

"We’re not waiting for kids to fail."

Views on the importance of "just-in-time learning" and the "plummeting" value of traditional education.

The platform, called Pinpoint, is an "integrated education suite" that can be tailored to meet a school or district’s unique needs and goals. GCPS officials say it will allow the district to go textbook-free, saving money and allowing for more personalized student learning.

Have the teachers in your children’s school seen this?
In this classic program, internationally known learning disabilities expert Richard D. Lavoie leads a group of educators, psychologists, parents, and children through a series of exercises that vividly illustrate the daily classroom reality of LD students, an experience fraught with F.A.T.: frustration, anxiety, and tension.

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to have autism?

"Do all the PTA meetings, take-home flyers and Back to School nights actually generate increases in student achievement?" – "not necessarily."

"I think what’s happening at Big Sky is beyond Big Sky," said MCPS Superintendent Alex Apostle. "It’s influencing our culture within the district and outside the community. I think it’s a game-changer."

HealthCorps is focused on three priorities – educating the student body; achieving community outreach through "Fit Town™" – an initiative to connect and activate citizens and organizations to bring about awareness and affect change through local projects and initiatives; and advocating for policy shifts across all levels of government that put health and physical education back into the core curriculum of the American education system.

It’s an appealing proposition, and one that has attracted support in state legislatures, including Virginia’s. But in one of the most hard-fought quarters of public policy, a rising chorus of critics argues that full-time virtual learning doesn’t effectively educate children.

Attendance is taken and makes up about a third of your grade. It’s a lot more like high school than the typical on-again-off-again schedule of many college students.