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Student Engagement Matters More Than Attendance; Why Don’t Schools Track It?

This article appeared in Forbes on 3/25/2023.   The importance of engagement in both workplace and educational success has been well illustrated over the last 20 years by the analytics company Gallup. Even though tracking... Read More

Get to know the Learning Skills that help students COMMUNICATE

At last, we arrive at our final category of Learning Skills: Communicate! Check out the first 3 if you haven’t already seen them: Explore, Analyze, and Reason. Communicate includes the following Learning Skills: ... Read More

Get to know the Learning Skills that help students REASON

In our last two posts we focused on strategies and activities to help students build skills as they Explore and Analyze.  In this post we focus on a third category of skills, Reason, which includes the following Learning... Read More

Ongoing Outreach in Florida

Katherine Cue-Fuente is our Outreach Director for Florida Schools. Kat recently met with Florida’s new Commissioner of Education and several state legislators to discuss how Opportunity Education can positively impact students... Read More

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Teacher Spotlight: Kyle Haselton

Last month I visited Quest Forward High School in Santa Rosa, CA and had the pleasure of meeting Kyle Haselton, a second year English teacher. Quest Forward High Schools use Opportunity Education’s Quest Forward Learning to empower... Read More

Get to know the Learning Skills that help students ANALYZE

In our last post we focused on strategies and activities to support students build skills as they Explore. Those Learning Skills include Establish Meaning, Ask Questions, and Investigate.  In this post we focus on a second... Read More