New Forum kicks off work to personalize learning

With guidance and support from The Consortium for Public Education's new Forum for Collaborative Leadership, teams from 13 districts convened in September to begin planning and testing ways to personalize learning in their schools. To learn more about their work, click Forum.

More than 50 educators begin yearlong Leadership Institute

Despite Pennsylvania's temporary suspension of Act 45 requirements, more than 50 educators still were anxious to join peers at The Consortium for Public Education's Leadership Institute, which kicked off a year of professional development seminars designed to help administrators directly impact classrooms. Participants said they came away with strategies and tools for improving teaching and learning. For highlights of their first session, click Leadership Institute.

Exploring college readiness

More than a dozen Laurel Highlands High School students recently helped illuminate reasons that some seniors who are "college ready" may not be college bound. Their reflections are informing work in the 720 Pilot project that The Consortium for Public Education organized among five districts and two universities for the Pennsylvania Department of Education. To learn more about the work, click 720.