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New on the blog!📣 As schools move beyond a one-size-fits-all assessment approach, digital portfolios are emerging as a powerful way to capture the full story of student learning. Explore how digital portfolios foster ownership, reflection, a growth mindset, and real-world skills while giving educators richer insight into student mastery! https://hubs.li/Q03_MjNv0

Empowering the Learner: How Digital Portfolios Cultivate Ownership & a Growth Mindset As schools move beyond a one-size-fits-all assessment approach, digital portfolios are emerging as a powerful way to capture the full story of student learning. This article explores how digital portfolios foster ownership, reflection, a growth mindset, and real-world skills while giving educators r...

Former elementary school teacher Heather Wertman shares how using ’s Backpack Designer task transformed her instruction by making learning relevant, engaging, and deeply connected to real-world applications!✏️ https://hubs.li/Q03Xg8W50

Empowering Young Mathematicians Through Real-World Performance Tasks As an elementary teacher with over two decades in the classroom, I’ve always looked for ways to make math meaningful and relatable for my students. Over the years, I’ve seen what happens when students connect their learning to the real world and their own world. There’s more curiosity, more co...

As artificial intelligence reshapes our world, educators are called to prepare students not just with technical skills, but with the curiosity, creativity, and human-centered abilities to thrive alongside it. This article explores the Profile of an AI-Ready Graduate and offers practical classroom strategies, routines, and AI-driven prompts to bring its six traits to life!🖥️ https://hubs.li/Q03XgbYT0

Bringing the Profile of an AI-Ready Graduate to Life Through Instructional Practice & Routines In an evolving world that is starting to be shaped by the rise of artificial intelligence, our classroom spaces must remain places of curiosity, connection, and thoughtful creation. At the recent ASCD + ISTE 2025 Conference, the Profile of an AI-Ready Graduate was introduced by Richard Culatta, not....