What if schools prepared kids for life?
A new film about a transformative approach to career-based learning
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Offering students diverse pathways to success
For decades, America’s data-driven college-for-all agenda has created a no-win choice for most high school graduates: take on the risk and expense of college or work a low-wage job. But in an economically-challenged Virginia community, one superintendent is demonstrating the immense power of career-based learning—not as a last-chance resort for some, but as foundational for all.
The film Multiple Choice immerses viewers in the district’s Innovation Center, where all students explore diverse careers, collaborate, and master traditional and new-economy skills. Amid political turmoil and tech upheaval, Multiple Choice offers an inspiring vision of kids finding purposeful paths, with a community united toward the goal of prosperity for all.
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Reaching audiences across the country
Most Likely to Succeed screened in over 10,000 communities, spurring schools and districts around the world to reimagine education. Multiple Choice follows that work with specific, achievable calls to action with the power to create meaningful change for students everywhere.
“In 2015, Ted Dintersmith’s film Most Likely to Succeed identified the problems with our educational system: lack of student engagement or agency, standardized curriculum, and limited ideas about the pathway to success. Ten years later, Dintersmith’s new film, Multiple Choice, offers the solution and a call to action that invites educators to develop multiple pathways through learning and reimagines what we mean by career readiness.”
–Jennifer D. Klein, Speaker, Facilitator & Coach 〜 CEO, Principled Learning Strategies
“The energy in the room was electric. I watched as heads nodded, hands clapped, eyes welled, and people turned to one another and said, “That’s what we do.” …Multiple Choice is more than a film—it’s a movement.”
–Nick Martino, National Director of Programs and Training at Jobs for America’s Graduates
Our upcoming national release
MULTIPLE CHOICE will broadcast nationally on PBS and serve as the centerpiece of a series of impactful in-person and virtual screenings. These events will bring together parents, educators, administrators, local businesses, and policymakers to chart a path forward that creates multiple choices for success for all students.
We are working with aligned community partners to promote awareness and support for a national and local call for reform through the following initiatives:
Festival Release to engage international influencers & press
Community Screening Events for aligned advocacy & policymaker groups
Educational Screening Events with schools, district offices & PTAs
Custom Web-Based Educational Tools for advocacy & lasting impact
National PBS Broadcast reaching millions of viewers
On-Demand Streaming via platforms like iTunes & Amazon
get in touch
Interested in being a part of our national efforts to share Multiple Choice?
Reach out directly to the film team: Producer, Keith Ochwat, at ko@showandtell.film