iNACOL’s annual conference is the industry’s leading event shaping the future of K-12 education. Experts, practitioners, educators, policymakers and researchers gather and work to transform education.
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…
Human capital is a critical element of transforming K-12 education systems for the long term. States need to develop a strategy to attract, support and empower a pipeline of leaders across the state education system to lead the change to personalized, competency-based education. Change leadership is “the ability to influence and enthuse others through personal […]
The previous two blog posts, What Do Teachers Need to Know and Be Able to Do to Succeed in Personalized, Competency-Based Learning Environments? and Transforming the Educator Workforce: Creating Multiple, High-Quality Teacher Pathways, Developing Professional Judgment and Building Assessment Literacy, highlighted four essential strategies for states and school districts to transform educator workforce systems. This […]
Across the world, educators are transforming their schools to create more student-centered, equitable learning environments. Effective leadership is critical to the success and sustainability of this transformation. To better understand how school leadership is changing and its role in enabling, supporting and sustaining these efforts, iNACOL asked us to conduct a preliminary discovery process and […]
This post first appeared on CompetencyWorks on June 11, 2017. This is the fifth blog in a series leading up to the National Summit on K-12 Competency-Based Education. We are focusing on four key areas: equity, quality, meeting students where they are, and policy. (Learn more about the Summit here.) We released a series of draft papers […]
This post first appeared on CompetencyWorks on February 1, 2017. The early lesson from New England is that the scaling strategies for competency-based education require a combination of schools and districts that have the courageous leadership to convert to competency education and state leadership willing to commit to goal-oriented policies supported by long-term capacity-building strategies. […]
This post first appeared on CompetencyWorks on January, 5, 2017. Competency education is advancing in New England through a combination of shared vision and values, mutual respect and collaboration, and courageous leadership that is motivated by a sense of urgency to do better for students, communities, and the economy. The following five concepts are the […]
This post first appeared on CompetencyWorks on January 18, 2017. This is the final article in the series Implementing Competency Education in K-12 Systems: Insights from Local Leaders. Many districts are converting to competency education in states that have not yet begun to take the steps toward creating the vision and policies to support competency education. […]
This post first appeared on CompetencyWorks on December 19, 2016. This is the twenty-third article in the series Implementing Competency Education in K-12 Systems: Insights from Local Leaders. How Are You Preparing for the Implementation Dip? There is likely to be an implementation dip during transition years. After the initial work is done, confusion tends to […]
This is the third blog in a series on What’s Possible with Personalized Learning? Read the first post, second post, or download the entire report. As families, communities, parents, teachers and students around the country have deep conversations around how to transform schools to better prepare each student for future success, many schools are implementing […]
This post first appeared on CompetencyWorks on November 14, 2016. This is the seventeenth article in the series Implementing Competency Education in K-12 Systems: Insights from Local Leaders. The transition year(s) is the period of time when people use the phrases “building the ship in the water” and “constructing the plane in the air.” Educators are […]
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