{"id":1350,"date":"2017-11-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/blog\/redefining-student-success-organizing-education-systems-around-the-knowledge-and-skills-students-need-to-succeed\/"},"modified":"2022-11-04T16:57:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T20:57:18","slug":"redefining-student-success-organizing-education-systems-around-the-knowledge-and-skills-students-need-to-succeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/blog\/redefining-student-success-organizing-education-systems-around-the-knowledge-and-skills-students-need-to-succeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Redefining Student Success: Organizing Education Systems Around the Knowledge and Skills Students Need to Succeed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, conversations are happening in states that explore how to build education systems that prepare young people for success in postsecondary education, the workforce, and citizenship in a civil society. A new definition of success is crucial to drive system improvements that are built around student success. This will involve broadening our concepts for redefining success<\/a> to be more holistic, examining the culture and structures of learning models through instructional shifts, systems of assessments, expanded pathways and better learning environments connected to communities and to the real world.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the previous blog<\/a>,<\/span>\u00a0we introduced a vision for the future of education that can prepare all students to succeed. We explored four threshold concepts necessary to understand before we can embrace a vision of a future education system that is student-centered and introduced five issues to tackle to transform the K-12 education system. <\/span><\/p>\n

This blog will explore the importance of creating definitions of success that reflect communities’ aspirations for their students\u2019 futures<\/span>\u00a0\u2014 <\/span>to drive coherence in policies and to improve outcomes. <\/span>Policymakers can use new definitions of student success that enable student-centered learning systems to:<\/span><\/p>\n