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Back in December of 2022, I published a blog entry titled "How AI Will Save Education ." It was just a few weeks after ChatGPT 3.5 had debuted on November 30, and as I put it bac...

Check out these amazing blogs from CompetencyWorks . Adam Watson of OVEC and Courtney Williams of Jefferson County Public Schools have been named in the Top 10 blog posts by Auro...

One of our Deeper Learning leaders, Dr. Carmen Coleman, was recently named to Knowledgeworks’ Leading Change Network Steering Committee. This committee “will grow a national prof...

The following article, authored by Caleb Bates, appeared in Kentucky Teacher online magazine on July 19, 2023. School district leaders from across the Commonwealth joined virtu...

Starting last fall, the Prichard Committee visited innovative classrooms across the state. Interviews with dozens of teachers, students, administrators, employers and more are cap...

As Deeper Learning district plans come to fruition, check out these examples in the OVEC region. This Destination series highlights classroom excellence across OVEC districts. ...

School districts from around the state are coming together virtually on July 18 to detail their deeper learning journeys. Join us for a day of deeper learning exhibitions that ar...

The following article appeared in Kentucky Teacher Magazine on March 1, 2023. Back in December, I wrote a column about what I considered to be deeper learning , a topic that ...

The following article appeared in Kentucky Teacher Magazine on February 3, 2023. At Tilden Hogge Elementary School, 1st-grade students spent the first part of the ...

T he following article was published on the CompetencyWorks blog by The Aurora Institute. In Part One , I discussed how I joined a Kentucky educational cooperative’s n...

The following article was published on the CompetencyWorks blog by The Aurora Institute. As I began my eighteenth year in education, I felt ready for a new challenge. Ho...

From their website, the Aurora Institute's mission "is to drive the transformation of education systems and accelerate the advancement of breakthrough policies and practices to en...

What is United We Learn? United We Learn is our vision for the future of public education in Kentucky. This vision builds around three big ideas: creating a more vibrant e...

As we learn to live with the effects of the pandemic, teachers across the nation are looking for normalcy within the classroom and in their own professional learning. They are loo...

Keith and Alison believe that every school deserves a dynamic principal who fights mediocrity AND empowers those around them EVERY day. In this episode, they talk about principal...

Kentucky’s future vision for education, called United We Learn , was developed after listening to Kentuckians from all parts of the Commonwealth and represents what they said they...

Our schools, students, and staff have been put through the wringer over the past few years. As we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, we have two choices: 1. Get "back to busine...

As schools transitioned away from the high-stakes accountability environment of No Child Left Behind in 2015, many Kentucky schools and districts began a journey toward deeper, mo...

Deeper Learning initiatives are in full swing throughout the state! On November 1 st over 130 educators from the Southeast/South-central region gathered to learn, collaborate and...

When it comes to bringing deeper learning to life for our students, creating a supportive ecosystem is an essential step, and one on which system level leadership can have a treme...