Agency Videos
PAS VIDEOS
Since its inception, PAS has held Solution Forums and Annual Conferences with partners, educators, and influencers. Each event featured break-outs with one of our partners. Those recorded sessions are below. Many videos also contain materials for download.
Equitable Opportunities for Advanced Coursework in Middle Grades
2023 National Conference
Equitable Opportunities for Advanced Coursework in Middle Grades
~ Frances Dumas-Hines and Andrea Kneubuhler, Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corporation, IN
~ Presentation PDF
Access and Equity for Rural Students
~ Celesta Riffe and Mike Hogg, Berea Partners for Rural Impact, KY
~ Partners for Rural Impact Handout PDF
Access and Equity for Students with Disabilities
2023 National Conference
Access and Equity for Students with Disabilities
~ Amy Szymanski, State Support Team Region #1, Ohio DOE
~ Presentation PDF
Rethinking the High School to College Transition
2022 National Conference
Innovative approaches to enhancing opportunities for students to get a head start on college during their final years in high school.
Presenters: Erica Cuevas and Meredith Hills, “The Big Blur,” Jobs for the Future; Asheley Siewnarine and Shaquille Dunbar, The Educational Equity Lab.
Building Student Agency to Boosts Success in School & Life
2021 Solutions Forum
This Solutions Forum featured PAS Learning Community members—including two 2020-21 PAS Design Challenge awardees—who are developing systems that empower underserved young people to set and reach personal goals leading to long-term achievement and success, despite the hurdles they face in school and society.
~ Dr. Michelle Caldwell, Director of Student Success, College Advancement Mentor (CAM) Network, Kristin Labs, Gateway Scholars Program Manager, and Dr. Keith White, Director of Research and Effectiveness, Public Education Foundation (PEF) Chattanooga: College Advancement Mentors (CAMs): Next-Level Support for Increasing Students’ Postsecondary Persistence and Completion
and 2020-21 PAS Design Challenge awardees:
~ Abiodun Durojaye, Executive Director of the Career Bridge, National Louis University, Chicago: Innovative Career Preparation Model to Drive Equity in Student Employment Outcomes
~ Sarah Frazelle, Director of Early Warning Indicator Systems and Multi-Tiered Systems of Support, Puget Sound ESD, and Eric Meredith, Data Analyst, Montana University System: Student Voice Data System
Designing Education
A podcast hosted by Robert Balfanz, director of the Everyone Graduates Center.
Conversations with leaders in education from around the country on bold new ideas and research-based strategies for redesigning American education to more effectively engage all students and equip them for the challenges of today’s workplace and world.
PAS PARTNER VIDEOS
Promoting Student Agency
Karen Boyes starts with the big picture of education and the changes coming. She then explores the underlying philosophies of the Modern Learning Environment and practical ways to develop student agency.
Are We Preparing Students to be Chefs or Cooks?
In this video, we take a look at the difference between “chef-like behaviors” vs “cook-like behaviors” and ask the big question: What is the purpose of schooling?
A Future for the World’s Children Documentary
In this film, we present the key findings of the seminal WHO-UNICEF-Lancet report “A future for the world’s children?” to help governments, communities and industry make real change for the world’s children.
Molly Wright: How every child can thrive by five
Breaking down the research-backed ways parents and caregivers can support children’s healthy brain development, seven-year-old Molly Wright highlights the benefits of play on lifelong learning, behavior and well-being, sharing effective strategies to help all kids thrive by the age of five.