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What Are And How To Teach 21st Century Skills

What are and how to teach 21st century skills

  • November 17, 2020
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

A little more than a year ago the Grand Rapids Public Museum hosted Outsmarting the Robots: Redesigning education from the classroom to the halls of Lansing. The conference was organized around the question "how do we redesign our system for…

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Report From “Outsmarting The Robots”: Part 2

Report from “Outsmarting the Robots”: Part 2

  • December 13, 2019
  • Sarah Szurpicki
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

Last week I wrote about "Outsmarting the Robots: Redesigning education from the classroom to the halls of Lansing," an event we co-hosted in October with a number of great partners in Grand Rapids. (Click here for that part 1). Today…

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A Liberal Arts Degree Leads To A Good-paying Career

A liberal arts degree leads to a good-paying career

  • October 16, 2019
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

We are constantly besieged with messaging that a liberal arts degree is useless. Maybe even worse than useless: a path to being a pauper or something close. Stuck in low-paying work that leaves you unable to pay off the loans…

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Employers Increasingly Prefer Generalists Over Specialists

Employers increasingly prefer generalists over specialists

  • July 31, 2019
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
  • 0 Comments

All of a sudden there is lots being written about the trend of employers hiring generalists more than specialists. What is so disturbing is the disconnect between this reality and way too many policymakers pushing our education and training providers…

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GM Needs Rock Climbing Engineers

GM needs rock climbing engineers

  • November 16, 2018
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
  • 4 Comments

A recent Detroit Free Press article entitled GM's job cuts shift to a new kind of worker needed is worth checking out. It is a pretty dramatic example of the reality that––even for those with STEM degrees (in this case engineers)––the…

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Needed For All: Education For Losing Job(s)

Needed for all: education for losing job(s)

  • February 9, 2018
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
  • 0 Comments

Must-read Linkedin column by Heather E. McGowan entitled Preparing Students to Lose Their Job. It is the best description I have read on the need to change the mission of education from one that prepares people for a job to one that…

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Google Finds STEM Skills Aren’t The Most Important Skills

Google finds STEM skills aren’t the most important skills

  • January 5, 2018
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
  • 125 Comments

Terrific Washington Post column on research done by Google on the skills that matter most to its employees success. Big surprise: it wasn't STEM. The Post writes: Sergey Brin and Larry Page, both brilliant computer scientists, founded their company on the conviction…

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From The Swimming Pool To The Classroom: More Thoughts On Confidence

From the swimming pool to the classroom: more thoughts on confidence

  • January 3, 2018
  • Sarah Szurpicki
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

In my last post, I walked us through the four levels of confidence that are described by Roberta Michnick Golinkoff and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek in their book, Becoming Brilliant. They describe confidence as one of six of the most important capacities…

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The Path To Good-paying Careers Without A BA Ain’t What You Think

The path to good-paying careers without a BA ain’t what you think

  • December 21, 2017
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
  • 0 Comments

In 1999 Michigan Future, Inc. did research to identify the pathway young adults in metro Detroit without a four-year degree took to obtaining good-paying jobs. The research involved both focus groups and phone interviews. The core finding of that research…

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School: A Confidence Booster Or A Confidence Killer?

School: A Confidence Booster or a Confidence Killer?

  • December 6, 2017
  • Sarah Szurpicki
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

I’ve been looking more deeply into one of the “Cs” of the “6 Cs” that we believe, based on Roberta Michnick Golinkoff and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek’s book Becoming Brilliant are the skills that kids need to be successful in the 21st…

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