Posted July 10, 2019 in competency education, professional learning, state policy by Katherine Casey
Today, iNACOL released Modernizing the Teaching Workforce for Learner-Centered, Competency-Based, Equity-Oriented Education: State Policy Recommendations. The policy brief recommends steps that state policymakers can take to advance a new vision for the teaching profession. The issue brief builds on a paradigm shift that was first articulated in Moving Toward Mastery: Growing, Developing, and Sustaining Educators […]
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Posted July 8, 2019 in colorado, Education Policy, montana, oklahoma, state policy, Utah, West Virgnia by Alexis Chambers
With a goal to ensure our nation’s education system is fit for purpose and better able to prepare students for the future, iNACOL provides expertise on state policy and recognizes the importance of enabling policies to support competency-based education (CBE). Fully developed, student-centered systems require significant shifts in policy and practice. To prepare our students […]
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Posted July 2, 2019 in Global Education, New Learning Models by Jordan Tinney
This is the second vlog in a series sharing highlights from keynote addresses that will focus on current events and themes in education. This video features the topic of global education. Jordan Tinney of Surrey Schools in British Columbia breaks down his Learning by Design framework with an example of a redesigned curriculum of 6th […]
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Posted June 25, 2019 in competency education, New Learning Models, personalized learning by Chris Sturgis
I think that one can argue that every school, whether it is a traditional school or a personalized, competency-based one, should have processes for continuous improvement in place. It only makes sense that any organization should be in the process of improving. However, traditional schools and school systems are highly bureaucratic in nature. The emphasis […]
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Posted June 21, 2019 in Global Education, New Learning Models by Susan Patrick
This is the first vlog in a series sharing highlights from keynote addresses that will focus on current events and themes in education. This video features the topic of global education. iNACOL President and CEO, Susan Patrick, offers insight on the advancements of global education systems during her opening address at the 2016 iNACOL Symposium. […]
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Posted June 18, 2019 in competency education, personalized learning, professional learning by Chris Sturgis
This post first appeared on CompetencyWorks on December 20, 2018. Competency-based education believes that all students, with the right supports, can learn. Similarly, advocates of competency-based education believe that all educators, with the rights supports, can learn the skills needed to help each and every student to learn. Personalized, competency-based education is rooted in the […]
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Posted June 11, 2019 in competency education by Chris Sturgis
This post first appeared on CompetencyWorks on November 26, 2018. What is student agency? The standard reply in our field these days is “voice and choice.” Certainly, “voice and choice” is a pithy memorable phrase. It also has value in that creating opportunity for students to have voice and choice in their daily lives is […]
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Posted June 4, 2019 in competency education by Chris Sturgis
This post first appeared on CompetencyWorks on November 2, 2018. We made a mistake in the first few years of CompetencyWorks. We simply underestimated the importance of culture – the underlying values, beliefs, rituals, and relationships that shape an organization or community – in making the transition to a competency-based system. Many schools and districts […]
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Posted May 30, 2019 in competency education, state policy by Natalie Truong
Today, iNACOL released the updated CompetencyWorks map for 2019, a snapshot of K-12 competency education state policy across the United States. The map was last updated in September 2018. You can download a copy of the map here. We have categorized the states as “Advanced,” “Developing,” “Emerging,” and “Not Yet” on the map to […]
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Posted May 29, 2019 in competency education by Chris Sturgis
This blog was originally posted on CompetencyWorks on October 11, 2018. iNACOL and CompetencyWorks released the book Quality Principles for Competency-Based Education. This book, which started out as a paper and expanded into a primer on competency education with the help of Katherine Casey, completes the collection of papers developed as part of the National Summit […]
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