Michael Horn argues that real employer partnerships, especially with health systems, are driving competency-based education. Healthcare works because it has clear industry standards and board exams. He wants work-based learning built into every high school day across America.
Career connected learning, for all we've written about this, right. Is a critical thrust. And so the way that they're actually creating real partnerships seems to me really interesting. And then obviously there's a competency based element of this where they're actually looking at progress. I'm curious your take on this, but I thought it was interesting that they started with the health system as that employer partner, which I think makes sense because health care is one of those places where there's like clear board exams, gates, right, that like if you can pass those and have clinical hours and practicums, you can go practice. And so competencies that perhaps tie to an industry standard are maybe more likely to get lift off, maybe more likely to get traction than say competency based or skills based hiring in a space where we don't even really know what the skills are. There's not like an agreed upon set of competencies or definitions or even how to measure them. And I guess that last thought, Danny, and then I'm curious, yours is like really exciting to see this work go through and to see work based learning pulled into the high school experience. Sort of flip that high school day. I think that's a really cool trend that I would like to see every district in America, I think.
