PAIRIN Performance Assessment & The Ten Principles
This is Part 3 in our three-part blog series illustrating PAIRIN’s alignment with the Ten Principles for Building a High-Quality System of Assessments. Check out Part 1 ...
Author: Tara Laughlin
With over 15 years of experience in education across the public and private sectors, Tara helps youth and adults develop the skills needed for the future of work by leading the design and facilitation of personalized, competency-based learning experiences. She spent four years as PAIRIN's Director of Curriculum & Training, and now works as an Education Designer of Micro-Credentials for the Education Design Lab.
PAIRIN Signs On to Ten Principles
This is Part 1 in our three-part blog series illustrating PAIRIN’s alignment with the Ten Principles for Building a High-Quality System of Assessments. Check out Part 2 ... 
PAIRIN’s Online Curriculum 2.0: Both Classic And Cutting Edge
Like a fine wine, The Great Gatsby, and a barbecue on the fourth of July, some things never go out of style. And yet, as great as classics can be, there’s also ... 
Design Challenge Winner: PAIRIN’s Problem Solving Performance Assessment
The world is full of problems. Not to be a downer, but I’m setting the stage here. On a personal, professional, local, national, and international level, it ... Building Stress Tolerance
We see it all the time. A person rushing around, from activity to activity, to the store and back, jumping from meeting to meeting. We hear it all the time. ... A Framework for SEL Integration: It’s Time to Teach Differently – PART 2
Last week’s blog introduced an SEL integration framework, offering educators a systematic way to integrate social-emotional skills into any grade level and content ... A Framework for SEL Integration: It’s Time to Teach Differently
The world is changing, and so too are the skills necessary to thrive in school, work, and life. Now more than ever, one’s success is linked not just to foundational ... 
Developing Soft Skills: The Key to Success
Soft Skills Over the last several decades, extensive research has shown the value of soft skills development, at all levels ranging from early childhood to late ... 
A Summer of Concerts
This was a fun summer of concerts for the Laughlin family! Mostly at Red Rocks. Here is the full list:John Mayer (Pepsi Center) Nathaniel Rateliff (Red Rocks) ... 
San Diego for Summer 2017
This past summer, my husband and I took a kid-free vacation to San Diego. Neither of us had been before, and we were pumped to visit the beaches, the different ... 
The World Has Changed, Why Haven’t Our Schools?
Academic knowledge is so last century. It is widely recognized that students need more than this to be successful later in life, especially in our diverse, ever-changing ... 