CCReflect

The Toolkit is organized around the same four elements of the Certification Criteria for Linked Learning Pathways: Pathway Design: Quality pathways are designed with a structure, governance, and program of study that provides all students with opportunities for both postsecondary and career success. Engaged Learning: In supportive learning communities, students meet technical and academic standards and college entrance requirements through real-world applications, integrated project-/problem-based instruction, authentic assessments, and work-based learning. System Support: District policies and practices provide leadership, support, and resources to establish and sustain quality pathways. Evaluation and Accountability: A systemic evaluation process documents the pathway's impact on high school achievement and postsecondary success and drives the pathway's continuous improvement plans.

"Positive lead- ership rejects traditional deficit-based models of change management with their relentless drive to fix problems. Tombaugh (2005) advised managers that the challenge of maintaining a committed and motivated workforce is too difficult when the daily focus is on what is not working...."

Half-way down there is a list of design studios offered, specifying the concepts for each.

Create mission-driven communities Collaborate to capture, refine, share and transfer knowledge Publish knowledge within and across communities Create "community brilliance" through best practice capture, sharing and transfer Choreograph online experiences to engage users in defined processes Apply patented knowledge transfer process to ensure 90+% long-term knowledge retention

"the liberal rhetoric of individualism and personal choice is casually affirmed without sufficient attention to the ways in which one's choices and much else are influenced by tradition and community. Many interfaith couples have "chosen the romanticism and the individualistic ethos of America over the demands of the communities that they have come from" only to find, later on, that those demands still exert a force. "

Arty dad, rocker mom, crazy childhood. (Summer Pierre)

"UUnique NNatural SSelf-Empowering CCreative HHarmonious OOpen hearted OOriginal LLoving I Innovative NNurturing GGratifying"