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To build a vision for coherent, student-centered systems — and to encourage all stakeholders to take ownership of education innovation — we must take the long view in our approach to state policy. The work begins with unpacking brave new…
Moving to a future state of an equitable K-12 education system requires that we consider and perhaps rethink what students need to know and be able to do to achieve success. It also requires that we set a vision and foundation for achieving success throughout the state education system. Here we dig into the second […]
Several states are asking us: What alternatives are there to grading schools in state accountability systems? We recognize that states want a way to help communicate their work on education quality, effectiveness and accountability. The real question is this: How can states better determine school effectiveness, report on school progress and give data-driven feedback and […]
In personalized, competency-based education, schools should have far better data to support student learning, provide greater transparency and analyze and continuously improve on their practice through data and reporting with multiple measures. Likewise, states can consider how to present multiple measures of student learning and school quality with advanced data visualization to provide families with […]
The previous blog, Why Next Generation Accountability for Continuous Improvement is Important, explored the need to redesign accountability systems to support all learners based on reciprocal accountability and continuous improvement. This blog will focus on how states can begin to design next generation accountability systems. As policymakers think long term about accountability redesign, an important […]
State and local education systems need to focus on supporting an accountability system that continuously improves to meet the needs of a changing society, economy and student populations. Policymakers, school leaders, teachers, parents and communities want systems that are transparent and aligned to improving teaching and learning over time. Next generation accountability systems can serve […]
This post first appeared on CompetencyWorks on December 20, 2016. This is the twenty-fourth article in the series Implementing Competency Education in K-12 Systems: Insights from Local Leaders. It is no surprise that Chugach School District received the Malcom Baldridge National Quality Award in its seventh year after creating a performance-based system. Competency education creates the conditions for continuous […]
This blog post first appeared on CompetencyWorks on June 21, 2016. Ensuring quality and equity is as the heart of the movement to transform education toward personalized, competency-based learning. By placing the student at the center of the learning process and re-engineering around learning, pace and progress (rather than time, curriculum delivery and sorting), we can create […]
This blog post first appeared on CompetencyWorks on June 20, 2016. When learning is done on a deeper level, it takes longer to accomplish. Thus, learning experiences that allow students to delve into topics and apply their skills are often more complex to design. Schools must think about how they are structuring learning within the […]
This blog post first appeared on CompetencyWorks on June 15, 2016. In order to create an equitable education system, we need to reduce the predictive value of race, gender, class, and disability in the classroom. In the blaming culture of the traditional educational system, we point to children or their families as the problem when students aren’t […]
There is an incredible window of opportunity for state policymakers with the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). States now have the flexibility to engage in conversations with local communities to reimagine the future of education and redefine what student success looks like. What do we want our students to know and be […]
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