The America Achieves Educator Networks works to increase the number of students who have access to and complete a quality education pathway that leads to career and life success.
Educator Network Videos
Promising Practices Around Career Readiness and Engaging Educators
As schools get real about career readiness and work to develop a vision, they can start the process by considering these questions.
In this video, school leaders and thought-leaders share their insights on effective partnerships between schools and businesses.
Industry-aligned performance tasks and graduation capstones are one promising approach to helping students develop and practice key competencies.
Teachers, principals, and thought-leaders discuss the value of project-based learning in developing career-ready students and how to create authentic hands-on learning experiences.
Recorded Panel Discussions and Keynote Speeches from the 2017 Global Learning Network Convening of World-Leading Learners
Panel discussion on Career Pathways from the 2017 Global Learning Network Convening of World-Leading Learners.
Panelists: David Bramlett, America Achieves; Bob Schwartz, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Hanne Shapiro, Hanne Shapiro Futures; Doannie Tran, Boston Public Schools; Gretchen Morgan, CareerWise Colorado
Panel discussion on employability skills at the 2017 Global Learning Network Convening.
Panelists: Heidi Ramirez, America Achieves; Stefan Pryor, Rhode Island Secretary of Commerce; David Steiner, Johns Hopkins University; Jeff Strohl, Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce
Panel discussion on Classroom Performance Tasks from the 2017 Global Learning Network Convening of World-Leading Learners.
Panelists: Heidi Ramirez, America Achieves; Tony Donen, STEM School Chattanooga; Matthew Dodge, Denver School of Innovation and Sustainable Design; Bryan Kind, Project Lead the Way
Keynote speech on education and the changing world from Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills, at the 2017 Global Learning Network Convening of World-Leading Learners.
Jon Schnur, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of America Achieves, gives the opening speech at the 2017 Global Learning Network Convening.
Panel discussion on Industry Partnerships from the 2017 Global Learning Network Convening of World-Leading Learners.
Panelists: Peter Kannam, America Achieves; Ryan Jackson, Mt. Pleasant High School; Jayda Spillers, Bossier Parish School for Technology & Innovative Learning; Adam Robb, Lord Shaughnessy High School
Panel discussion exploring the forces of globalization and technology and the resulting shifts and changes happening in the 21st century economy and society.
Panelists: Jon Schnur, America Achieves; Steve Lynch, Burning Glass; Gerald Chertavian, Year Up; Ralph Müller-Eiselt, Bertelsmann Stiftung