Elevate Higher-Order Skills & Prepare Students for Success Today & Tomorrow

In a world driven by AI and constant change, students need to build their higher-order skills—critical thinking, problem solving, and communication—in order to adapt and thrive in school, in their careers, and in their communities.

Preparing students for the future means actively teaching critical thinking, problem solving, and communication. Use our checklist to evaluate if your district is teaching students seven essential future-ready tasks.

CAE checklist titled "Help Students Level Up Their Higher-Order Skills" listing 7 higher-order skills: analyze and understand data; evaluate credibility of sources; deal with inadequate or conflicting information; apply data to decision-making; construct logical arguments; organize and synthesize information for written responses; and guide AI tools effectively with human judgment. Two things worth noting: This appears to be the full-size version of the previous thumbnail — they're likely two separate files in your Media Library even though the content is identical. Make sure you add the same alt text to both. Same flag as before — this is a full one-page document saved as an image, which is actually an accessibility issue in itself beyond just alt text. Ideally this checklist should exist as actual HTML text on the page or a downloadable PDF so screen reader users can properly navigate and interact with the content. Is this image used as a downloadable resource on the site?

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