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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Linked Learning in Pasadena: Creating a Collaborative Culture for Sustainable District Reform. Linked Learning Case Study Series
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Rice, Erik; Rutherford-Quach, Sara – Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, 2012
This is the story of how Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) is creating sustainable high school reform. PUSD, through a set of district leadership practices, thoughtfully built the capacity of and sense of ownership among essential stakeholders to design, implement, and support a system of Linked Learning pathways. Though firmly anchored by…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Change, Leadership, Cooperation
Reframing Student Outcomes to Develop 21st Century Skills. Knowledge Brief
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Rice, Erik – Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, 2011
In this brief, Erik Rice identifies three strategic practices schools, districts, and communities can use to help prepare students for college and career success: (1) To collectively articulate and align a set of student outcomes that prioritize 21st century skills; (2) Transform defined outcomes into functioning frameworks for curriculum and…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Alignment (Education), Best Practices, Educational Practices
Design Thinking: A Process for Developing and Implementing Lasting District Reform. Knowledge Brief
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Rice, Erik – Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, 2011
Traditionally, challenges such as how to sustain district reform, how to build a leadership pipeline, how to create an integrated project, or how to best intervene with struggling students would be resolved with a team of "experts" developing a solution in isolation of the stakeholders involved. By contrast, design thinking centers on the…
Descriptors: Expertise, Strategic Planning, Educational Change, Leadership