When You're Prepared, Are You Ready?
You can be prepared and still not ready. Being able to adapt to a challenging situation for which you have prepared is the extra element of readiness.
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Writing archive
Essays by David T. Conley on readiness, learning, assessment, and education policy.
Rehearsal: Key Tool for Readiness
Rehearsal is a key skill to improving your readiness to succeed in a wide range of situations and settings.
Read article →Eligible? Ready?
You can be eligible but not ready. Why is the distinction important?
Read article →Why College and Career Ready?
This 13.5 minute video explains the reasons all students need to be ready for college and careers.
Read article →Creating Accountability Systems that Improve College and Career Readiness
ESSA offers the opportunity to redesign accountability systems. Here are four criteria every state should follow if they wish to have their accountability system focus more on college and career readiness.
Read article →The ESSA Mindset
ESSA is the anti-vision. It explicitly eschews a comprehensive picture of or road map for educational reform and improvement.
Read article →Breadth vs. Depth: The Deeper Learning Dilemma
Students need to make reasoned tradeoffs between the breadth of what they learn and the depth at which they learn it.
Read article →Self-Assessment: Essential to Success in School and Work
Self-assessment is an important way to build learner awareness and empowerment while at the same time providing valuable information to teachers.
Read article →Student Aspirations: Key to Powerful Learning
Students with high aspirations will achieve better academically than those with low aspirations. And yet, educators know little about student aspirations or how to raise them.
Read article →What Do We Know About Readiness for College and Careers?
Readiness is the ability to succeed in post-high school learning, not just participate. How are readiness for college and for careers similar and different?
Read article →Renaming Noncognitive Skills to Emphasize Success
In January, 2013, I authored a Commentary in Education Week that made a case for renaming "noncognitive" skills. I'm taking another run at this, suggesting the notion of "success skills" as an alternative label.
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