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Defined Learning

Empowering Students to Build Future-Ready Skills Through Career-Connected Learning

Defined Learning is an award-winning online platform that helps teachers implement high-quality project-based learning (PBL) with ease. We provide the essential project design elements including standards-based performance tasks, research resources, editable rubrics and more.

Our engaging hands-on projects are based on careers to provide deeper understanding of concepts and application of knowledge. Our platform serves as a repository of critical challenges and real-world problems for students to solve. We excite students about their futures and empower them to build the critical skills they need to succeed in college, careers, and life. 

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Our Evidence-Based Framework

Defined Learning’s performance tasks are built utilizing the evidence-based Understanding by Design Framework® (UbD), created by nationally recognized educators Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins. UbD seeks to reimagine education for stronger student engagement through two key ideas:

  1. Focus on understanding and retaining knowledge rather than memorization. 
  2. Designing curriculum “backward” from the idea of understanding to then developing a teaching format. 

Dive into the UBD process and discover how it can redefine your curriculum without rewriting it.

 

 

 

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Engaging Career-Connected Projects

Defined Learning provides K-12 career-connected learning opportunities for every student. Our tasks contain standards-aligned academic programming across all grade levels and subject areas, including Literacy, Math, Science, Social Studies, Music, Arts Integration, Computer Science, Financial Literacy, and more. Each hands-on project starts off with an engaging real-world video that shows students the practical application of educational concepts within a company. Students are then asked to complete a performance task and apply their knowledge and skills to a real-world situation. Take a look! 

Defined Learning Insights

Take a look into our project-based, standards-aligned platform to see how Defined Learning can support your school or district's goals.

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    Defined Learning's Impact on Student Achievement

    School districts across the country are engaging students in deeper learning through Defined Learning's career-connected projects.

    To learn how Defined Learning has made a positive impact on student outcomes across the country in this case study.

     

     

    Additional Features & Resources

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    Teacher Planning Guide

    Our planning guide is a resource to help teachers implement a course. It contains resources such as background on the course, topics covered in the course, how the course is laid out, and more.

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    Book Catalog

    Our book catalog aligns commonly used books to Defined Learning projects across grade bands to deepen understanding and allow students to dive deeper into their interests.

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    Measure student performance towards your portrait of a Graduate Goals

    A customized implementation of the Defined ecosystem that provides enhanced data and analytics on state or district-specific goals and competencies. 

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    The Practical can be Inspiring

    When students can see the real-world impact of their lessons, it inspires them to seek out knowledge and follow their interests. Education should be a springboard for the future, not an obstacle to overcome. Working together, we can encourage the next generation to rediscover their love of learning.

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