Measuring What Matters
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Today’s learners face a rapidly changing world that demands far different skills than were needed in the past. We also know much more about how student learning actually happens and what supports high-quality learning experiences. Our collective future depends on how well young people prepare for the challenges and opportunities of 21st-century life.
In this Education Week article, Tom Vander Ark reviews whole-student outcome frameworks that incorporate social-emotional learning with academic competencies. NGLC’s MyWays Success Framework tops the list. The list of frameworks also includes the Social-Emotional Learning rubric used by NGLC grantee Thrive Public Schools among others such as the Great Schools Partnership’s Transferable Skills and the School Quality Improvement Index of the California CORE school districts.
