{"id":90396,"date":"2024-02-05T13:23:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T18:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=90396"},"modified":"2024-02-05T13:24:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T18:24:10","slug":"healthcare-high-schools-fain-other-items-from-the-k-12-learning-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2024\/02\/05\/healthcare-high-schools-fain-other-items-from-the-k-12-learning-ecosystem\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare High Schools [Fain] + other items from the K-12 learning ecosystem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Healthcare High Schools<\/strong><\/a> — from the-job.beehiiv.com by Paul Fain
\nBloomberg and hospitals back dual-enrollment path from K-12 to high-demand jobs.<\/em><\/p>\n

More career exploration in high school is needed to help Americans make better-informed choices about their education and job options, experts agree. And serious, employer-backed efforts to tighten connections between school and work are likely to emerge first in healthcare, given the industry\u2019s severe staffing woes.<\/p>\n

A new\u00a0$250M investment\u00a0by Bloomberg Philanthropies could be an important step in this direction. The money will\u00a0seed the creation\u00a0of healthcare-focused high schools in 10 U.S. locations, with a plan to\u00a0enroll 6K students\u00a0who will graduate directly from the early-college high schools into\u00a0high-demand healthcare jobs that pay family-sustaining wages.<\/p>\n

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Microschools Take Center Stage with New Opportunities for Learning for 2024<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0— from the74million.org by Andrew Campanella
\nCampanella: More than 27,000 schools and organizations are celebrating National School Choice Week. Yours can, too<\/em><\/p>\n

Last year, the landscape of K-12 education transformed as a record-breaking\u00a020 states\u00a0expanded school choice options. However, that is not the only school choice story to come out of 2023. As the nation steps into 2024, a fresh emphasis on innovation has emerged, along with new options for families. This is particularly true within the realm of microschooling.<\/p>\n

Microschooling is an education model that is small by design \u2014 typically with 15 or fewer students of varying ages per class. It fosters a personalized and community-centric approach to learning that is especially effective in addressing the unique educational needs of diverse student populations. Programs like\u00a0Education Savings Accounts\u00a0are helping to fuel these microschools.<\/p>\n

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My Students Can\u2019t Meet Academic Standards Because the School Model No Longer Fits Them<\/strong> <\/a>— from edsurge.com by Sachin Pandya<\/p>\n

Large classes create more distractions for students who struggle to focus, and they inevitably get less attention and support as there are more students for teachers to work with. High numbers of students make it more difficult to plan for individual needs and force teachers to teach to an imaginary middle. A rigid schedule makes it easy to schedule adults and services, but it is a challenge for kids who need time to get engaged and prefer to keep working at a challenge once they are locked in.
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\nNow that I know what can engage and motivate these students, I can imagine creating more opportunities that allow them to harness their talents and grow their skills and knowledge. But we\u2019re already a third of the way through the school year, and my curriculum requires me to teach certain topics for certain lengths of time, which doesn\u2019t leave room for many of the types of experiences these kids need. Soon, June will come and I\u2019ll pass them along to the next teacher, who won\u2019t know what I know and will need another four months to learn it, wasting valuable time in these students\u2019 educations.<\/p>\n

From DSC:<\/span><\/strong><\/em>
\nWe need teachers and professors to be able to contribute to learners’ records.<\/strong> Each student can review and decide whether they want to allow access to other teachers– or even to employers. Educators could insert what they’ve found to work with a particular student, what passions\/interests that student has, or what to avoid (if possible). For example, has this student undergone some trauma, and therefore trauma-informed teaching should be employed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

IEPs could be a part of learners’ records\/profiles. The teams working on implementing these IEP’s could share important, searchable information.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The State of Washington Embraces AI for Public Schools<\/strong><\/a> — from synthedia.substack.com by Bret Kinsella; via Tom Barrett
\nEducational institutions may be warming up to generative AI<\/em><\/p>\n

Washington state issued new guidelines for K-12 public schools last week based on the principle of \u201cembracing a human-centered approach to AI,\u201d which also embraces the use of AI in the education process. The state\u2019s Superintendent of Public Instruction, Chris Reykdal, commented in a\u00a0letter\u00a0accompanying the new guidelines:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Healthcare High Schools — from the-job.beehiiv.com by Paul Fain Bloomberg and hospitals back dual-enrollment path from K-12 to high-demand jobs. More career exploration in high school is needed to help Americans make better-informed choices about their education and job options, experts agree. And serious, employer-backed efforts to tighten connections between school and work are likely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,419,46,432,102,17,7,838,559,228,87,382,66,89,50,321,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-development","category-ideas-teaching","category-k-12-related","category-learner-profiles","category-learning","category-learning-agents","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-learning-hubs","category-learning-preferences","category-learning-spaces","category-neurodivergent-special-needs","category-student-related","category-teachers","category-teaching-learning","category-united-states","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90396"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90470,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90396\/revisions\/90470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}