Posted May 24, 2019 in assessment, competency education, Higher Education, personalized learning by DeQuendre Bertrand, Maria Worthen
Last week, the College Board announced the Environmental Context Dashboard, a new tool to support admissions decisions with a composite score to accompany SAT results that could provide admissions officers with more information about students’ educational and socioeconomic backgrounds. Quickly dubbed the “Adversity Score,” the announcement set off wide-ranging debates in education circles, notably at […]
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Posted May 21, 2019 in by Alexis Chambers, Natalie Truong
Recently, we attended the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity (NAPE) annual National Summit for Educational Equity (NSEE) and had the opportunity to reflect on how to advance equity through partnerships with career and technical education (CTE). According to NAPE, the NSEE “brings together the researchers and practitioners in educational equity to build capacity, knowledge, […]
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Posted May 17, 2019 in Education Policy, Equity, New Learning Models by Ashley Jones, Natalie Truong
Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society. – Justice Sonia Sotomayor Today marks 65 years since the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, the seminal civil rights ruling outlawing school segregation. Since the ruling, American public school systems have wrestled with how to […]
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Posted May 7, 2019 in Accountability, Proficiency-based Learning by David Ruff
This blog was originally posted on CompetencyWorks on August 28, 2018. Two realities almost always arise when we engage in systemic change. First, while the change is framed as universally beneficial, it’s almost always disruptive and frequently gives rise to new and additional concerns. Second, implementation never goes as smoothly as planned. This certainly has happened […]
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Posted April 30, 2019 in Accountability, New Learning Models, Policy by Maria Worthen, Natalie Truong
States are using a variety of approaches to innovation in accountability systems. Some are taking a broader perspective to redefine success and rethink measures and school report cards. Some are providing user-friendly tools so that parents can explore school data to find the information that matters most to them. States are also changing the systems […]
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Posted April 18, 2019 in competency education, funding, New Learning Models, personalized learning by Maria Worthen, Natalie Truong
States and school districts around the nation are advancing policies to support the shift toward student-centered education models with personalized, competency-based learning. iNACOL is frequently asked to offer guidance on how to fund the initiatives and structures that support this transformation, and to that end, we released State Funding Strategies to Support Education Innovation. The […]
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Posted April 10, 2019 in Equity, New Learning Models, Resources by Dustin Hensley
As schools and institutions have begun transitioning toward personalized and competency-based learning, there is an old-fashioned stalwart that is often underused during the transformation process — the school library. School libraries have always been seen as quiet sanctuaries for reading and as book depositories, but definitely not hubs for innovation. In some cash-strapped districts, libraries […]
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Posted April 4, 2019 in Equity, Leadership by Ashley Jones
Last week, three of iNACOL’s staff: our President and CEO Susan Patrick, our Vice President for Federal and State Policy Maria Worthen, and myself, a Program Manager in communications, attended Promise 54’s DEI Accelerator Convening in Kansas City, Missouri. This gathering was the starting line for an eight-month program of deep work exploring the state […]
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Posted April 3, 2019 in Leadership, New Learning Models by Debbie Treece
The Chugach School District’s journey from traditional education to a transformational, performance-based educational philosophy began in the mid-1990’s – and I found myself swept along with this radical change that has become the Chugach educational culture for the past two and a half decades. Here’s a brief look into Chugach School District’s journey, the challenges, […]
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Posted March 13, 2019 in competency education, Federal Policy, professional learning by Katherine Casey
In Fall 2018, iNACOL’s initiative CompetencyWorks published a report called Moving Toward Mastery: Growing, Developing, and Sustaining Educators for Competency-Based Education. The report describes what it could look like to align teaching with the opportunities and demands of a 21st-century competency-based education system, reimagining multiple aspects of the teaching profession from pre-service training through retirement. […]
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