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School models are, for the most part, outdated–and very overdue for replacement. When students reach high school, research shows that close to 66 percent of students are disengaged. But even students who do successfully navigate their schooling emerge with only a specific (and often narrow) skillset that may or may not match their strengths or interests.

Conventional schooling often leaves students disillusioned, questioning their intelligence and value as it is framed by a system that needs an overhaul.

Learner-centered education can play a critical role in reshaping education systems, offering a more holistic approach to meeting learners’ needs and helping students find fulfillment in their academic accomplishments.

K-12 Value Networks: The Hidden Forces That Help or Hinder Learner-Centered Education, a report from the Clayton Christensen Institute and authored by CCI senior research fellow Thomas Arnett, offers insight into understanding why schools struggle to change their instructional models, along with tips to establish and support learner-centered education models.

Program leaders, sponsors, learners and their families, staff, community partners, and funders are all critical to the success of these learner-centered education models.

The report describes how five different learner-centered education models–The Met, Virtual Learning Academy Charter School, Iowa BIG, Village High School, and Embark Education–were able to launch and grow their models by assembling value networks congruent with their vision for learner-centered education.

1. The Met: The Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center, known as The Met, is a network of six small, public high schools located in Providence and Newport, Rhode Island. The hallmark of The Met’s learner-centered model is that its learners go out in their communities for two days out of the week to lead real-world projects as interns for partner organizations. For example, learners might work with a local bakery, a law firm, a tech company, or a recording studio.

When learners join the Met, they and their families work with an advisor to identify their strengths, needs, and interests, and then develop an individualized learning plan with an internship as its centerpiece. Learners are responsible for researching potential internship opportunities and communicating with partner sites to arrange their internships. Advisors coach them as they do their research and outreach to ensure that internships match their needs and interests.

2. Virtual Learning Academy Charter School: The Virtual Learning Academy Charter School (VLACS) is a statewide virtual school created in 2007 that serves K–12 learners throughout New Hampshire. The concept for the school came from the superintendent of the Exeter Region Cooperative School District, who saw an opportunity to take advantage of a new charter school law to apply for a statewide charter. Rather than create another conventional school, however, the superintendent recognized the distinctive value of using a virtual school model to offer a wide array of flexible, part-time and full-time learning options unavailable through brick-and-mortar campuses.

VLACS’s competency-based model is highly adaptable to learners’ needs and interests. It offers a range of options for learners to earn credits: through online courses, learner-designed projects, and out-of-school learning experiences such as internships and travel. Learners who take online courses move through those courses at their own pace and earn credit whenever they’re able to demonstrate mastery of designated competencies. For projects and other learning experiences, VLACS aligns these experiences with state learning standards and then measures learners’ mastery of standards using performance-based assessments.

Related:
What data tells us about student-centered learning
5 ways peer networks lead to better student support systems

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Hi guys! Dan from BBC Learning English here with this week's Learner Question. Find out what it is after this.

OK! This week's Learner Question comes from Tugba from Turkey, who writes: "Hello, I would like to know the difference between wear, put on and dress." It’s a good question, Tugba, and three very confusing words. I hope you like the answer. Here it comes.

So, when you wear clothes, shoes or jewellery, you have them on your body. You can also wear your hair in a particular style. For example, I’m wearing a green shirt and a silver wedding ring. I usually wear my hair short.

There is another meaning to wear, which is: become used and weaker over time, like the phrasal verb wear out. For example, I need to buy some new shoes. My old ones are getting worn out. This can also be applied to humans when they become tired. After a long day at work, I might say, I’m worn out. I need to go home.

When you put clothes on, you place them on your body in order to wear them. Also, when you’ve finished wearing them, you take them off. First you put on, then you wear them, then you take them off. For example, this morning I put on this green shirt, and later I’ll take it off.

You can also put on weight. This means to gain or accumulate kilograms. The opposite is to lose weight. For example, I thought I was going to put on weight on holiday last week, but I actually lost weight because I went swimming every day.

When you dress, you put clothes on. If you dress up, then you wear smarter clothes than usual. Likewise, if you dress down then you wear less smart clothes than usual. We also talk about getting dressed as an alternative to the verb dress. And there’s little difference between them. For example, I need to dress. The taxi’s coming in twenty minutes. Or, I need to get dressed. The taxi’s coming in twenty minutes. No big deal.

Other things you can dress are other people, such as children, you can dress a wound by cleaning it and covering it with a bandage and you can dress a salad by adding oil and vinegar to it.

I hope that answers your question Tugba. Thank you very much for writing to us. If anybody else out there has a question for Learners’ Questions, you can email us on: learning.english@bbc.co.uk. Please remember to put Learners’ Questions in the subject box and your name and where you’re writing from. We get a phenomenal amount of email, guys and we can’t answer every single one, but we do read all of them. And for more information, go to our website: bbclearningenglish.com. That’s it for this week’s Learners’ Questions. I’ll see you next time. Bye!

Audit

Also referred to as a degree audit, this is the review of your completed coursework as it applies to the requirements of your degree program and all University policies and requirements, including but not limited to GPA and residency requirements.  Learners will be audited when they Petition to Graduate and again as they approach the anticipated date of conferral.

Bump

Learners who do not complete all degree requirements by their anticipated date of conferral will be “bumped” to the next date available, based on their outstanding requirements and current registrations.

Celebration

Events celebrating graduates such as hoodings, lunches, receptions and regional celebrations.

Commencement

The formal celebration for those who have completed or are near completing all requirements for their chosen program.  Learners may have already had their degrees conferred or may be completing final requirements and anticipate conferral at a later date.  Participation in the Commencement ceremony does not mean that your degree is conferred (see below). There are two Commencement ceremony weekends for SNHU: One held in May following the end of the spring semester, and the other held in December following the end of the fall semester. Learners may participate in one commencement ceremony for each degree conferred.

Conferral

The genuine posting of a degree to your academic record (transcript). This is the SNHU’s official seal of approval, indicating that all degree requirements are complete. Conferral can take place before or after the Commencement ceremony and conferrals take place once a month.

Conferral Date

The date on which a degree is effective.  Degrees are conferred 15 times per year, the first of every month and the days of the May and MFA commencement ceremonies.

Cord

An honor cord is a token consisting of twisted cords with tassels on either end awarded to members of honor societies or for various academic and non-academic achievements, awards, or honors. Honors Cords are for undergraduates only.

Degree

A qualification awarded to learners upon successful completion of a course of study.  A degree will be conferred only when all program requirements are complete and all grades are received and Verified by the Office of the University Registrar within the University’s information system prior to or on the last business day of the month.  SNHU awards Associates, Bachelor’s, Masters and Doctorate degrees.  Also referred to as a credential.

Diploma

A document awarded by SNHU to show that learners have successfully completed a course of study.

Invitation

Based on their Petition and Eligibility, learners will receive an invitation to their SNHU email prior to their Commencement ceremony where they must respond with their decision to attend a ceremony or not. During this process learners will also order regalia, and register guests for guest tickets.

Your completion of your Petition to Graduate and graduation questionnaire does not indicate your attendance to a ceremony 

GC

Acronym for Global Campus or online learners.

Graduation

A term used interchangeably to refer to both Commencement and Conferral.  It is more accurate to refer to these two events separately, as they have different requirements and one does not necessarily include the other.  For example, attending Commencement does not ensure the conferral of a degree. 

Guests

Anyone you have registered for a guest ticket for your commencement ceremony. 

Honors

(Undergraduate only. Graduate learners not eligible for Latin or Ceremonial Honors)

The university acknowledges outstanding academic performance through Ceremonial Honors and Latin Honors. Ceremonial and Latin Honors apply only to associate and bachelor's degrees completed through non-direct assessment programs. Graduate programs are not eligible for academic honors. To be recognized with Ceremonial or Latin Honors, the student must meet the criteria specified in the academic catalog.

3.500- 3.699 Honors | Cum Laude
3.700- 3.849 High Honors | Magna Cum Laude
3.850- 4.000 Highest Honors | Summa Cum Laude

Ceremonial Honors serve as a way of recognizing students’ outstanding academic performance during Commencement ceremonies for those students who either do not qualify for Latin Honors at the time of Commencement or who do not have enough institutional credits to be eligible for Latin Honors upon degree completion.

Ceremonial Honors are not recorded on the student’s permanent record, transcript and diploma.

For Commencement purposes, Ceremonial Honors are assessed as of the first business day after the petitioning deadline of March 1 for the Spring ceremony and October 1 for the Fall ceremony and are based on GPA at that time.

Students who are still completing course work as of the petitioning deadline are eligible only for Ceremonial Honors at the Commencement Ceremony. Latin Honors will be assessed at the time of conferral.

Latin Honors (highest honors, high honors and honors for associate degrees; summa cum laude, magna cum laude and cum laude for bachelor's degrees) signify varying levels of academic achievement. Latin Honors are assessed at the time of conferral. Students must complete a minimum of 60 institutional credits for a bachelor's degree or 30 institutional credits for an associate degree to be eligible for Latin Honors upon conferral.

Only Latin Honors are recorded on the student’s permanent record, transcript and diploma.

Students who meet the criteria for either Ceremonial Honors or Latin Honors are recognized as honors recipients as they cross the stage at commencement. They receive honors regalia indicating their achievement.

Participation

Spring Commencement ceremony: Learners who have an anticipated conferral degree date between Jan. 1 and May 31 can participate in a Spring Commencement ceremony and must Petition to Graduate by March 1.

Fall Commencement Ceremony: Learners who have an anticipated conferral degree date between June 1 and Dec. 31 can participate in a Fall Commencement ceremony and must Petition to Graduate by October 1.

Learners must be in good academic standing with at least a 2.0 cumulative GPA (undergraduate) and a 3.0 cumulative GPA (graduate).

Petition

This is a required first step in the conferral process.  The Petition to Graduate is the learners request to the Registrar’s Office to begin the audit process as the learners approach the end of their degree programs. 

You must submit a Petition to receive your diploma and you must submit your petition by March 1 to be considered for eligibility to participate in an upcoming Spring Commencement ceremony, and October 1 to be considered for eligibility to participate in an upcoming Fall Commencement ceremony. For questions regarding the Petition process, please contact the Registrar’s Office.

Questionnaire

After the completion of the initial degree audit, learners will receive a link to a Qualtrics survey that is commonly referred to as the “Graduation Questionnaire”.  This questionnaire will ask the student to confirm understanding of a number of University policies. Please note: completing this questionnaire does not indicate your intent to participate in Commencement or serve as your registration. You must respond to your Commencement ceremony invitation sent to your SNHU email address.

Regalia

A learners’ SNHU-issued cap, tassel, gown and hood. 

Regional Celebrations

A regional celebration is an event held outside of Manchester, NH to bring together members of the SNHU community who are recent, eligible or past graduates. There are no diploma covers distributed during this program and attendees do not wear regalia. More information will be sent out to students, alumni and graduates within a given radius of the location, all are welcome.    

Stole

A graduation or academic stole is a decorative vestment worn by learners who are members of various organizations for the purpose of denoting outstanding achievements in academics. Stoles (or sashes) may also be used to indicate membership in a professional organization.

Transcript

The official list of the courses taken, grades earned and degrees conferred by a learner through a course of study. You are entitled to one complimentary copy of your official transcript after your degree is conferred. Please visit mySNHU to request copies.

UC

Acronym for University Campus or on campus learners.

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