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Communication Strategies for Education Leaders Shifting Toward Competency-Based, Personalized Learning
April 2018. View this archived webinar to learn ways to communicate with stakeholders about shifting toward a competency-based and personalized system. Understand emerging national trends from a recent survey and landscape analysis on the best ways to communicate about competency-based and personalized learning, and cater these promising practices to your local context. Presenters: Chris Sturgis, Principal, MetisNet;…
Author: Chris Sturgis, Karla Esparza-Phillips
Organization: CompetencyWorks, ExcelinEd
Type: Webinar
Topics: Competency Education
Designing for Equity: Leveraging Competency-Based Education to Ensure All Students Succeed
April 2018. This publication offers equity strategies for personalized, competency-based education to ensure a more equitable K-12 education system. Districts and schools can use the equity principles within this report to develop an equity agenda within their personalized, competency-based systems. Competency-based education systems, designed to ensure all students achieve success, holds promise as a uniquely powerful model…
Organization: CompetencyWorks, iNACOL
Type: Report
Fit for Purpose: Taking the Long View on Systems Change and Policy to Support Competency Education
January 2018. This paper explores and reflects on the issues state policy needs to address in the long-term to support a transformation of K-12 education systems. Personalized learning and competency-based education systems, designed to ensure equity, hold promise to prepare all students for success in college, career and civic life. This report shares strategies for policy to…
Author: Dale Frost, Maria Worthen, Natalie Truong, Susan Patrick
Organization: CompetencyWorks
Type: Report
Topics: Competency Education, Policy
Quality and Equity by Design: Charting the Course for the Next Phase of Competency-Based Education
October 2017. This publication seeks to advance K-12 competency education along four key issues: quality, equity, meeting students where they are, and policy. K-12 education in the United States and across the world is at a critical point in its evolution, and the demand for competency education has never been greater. The four key issues outlined in…
Author: Chris Sturgis, Nina Lopez, Susan Patrick
Organization: CompetencyWorks, iNACOL
Type: Report
Topics: Competency Education
State Policy & K-12 Competency-Based Education
August 2017. This iNACOL Issue Brief provides an overview of competency-based education, and provides state policy recommendations and resources for policymakers who are ready to enable and support competency education. Competency-based education is a next generation learning model that focuses on all students achieving mastery, preparing them for success in college, careers and civic life. State leaders…
Author: Dale Frost, Maria Worthen
Organization: iNACOL
Type: Issue Brief
Topics: Competency Education, Policy
Next Generation Learning Models for English Language Learners: Promising Practices and Considerations for Teaching and Learning
July 2017. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the promising practices and trends in personalized learning and competency-based education for English language learner (ELL) students. This paper shares case studies and examples from schools and programs that are currently creating personalized, competency-based learning environments for ELL students. This paper is designed for practitioners, including educators and education…
Author: Natalie Truong
Organization: iNACOL
Type: Report
Topics: Competency Education, Getting Started, Personalized Learning
An Introduction to the National Summit on K-12 Competency-Based Education
June 2017. This paper provides an overview of the goals of the National Summit on K-12 Competency-Based Education, the four papers that form the basis of discussion at the Summit, and a glossary of terms used in the four papers. CompetencyWorks is hosting the National Summit on K-12 Competency-Based Education in Denver, Colorado on June 21-23, 2017.…
Author: Chris Sturgis, Susan Patrick
Organization: CompetencyWorks, iNACOL
Type: Report
Topics: Competency Education
In Search of Efficacy: Defining the Elements of Quality in a Competency-Based Education System
June 2017. This paper seeks to identify what makes up the structures of a competency-based system and launches an exploration of what we might ask or see in a competency-based district and school that would be identified as high quality. This paper explores three questions related to defining what high quality means in a competency-based district or…
Author: Chris Sturgis
Organization: CompetencyWorks, iNACOL
Type: Report
Topics: Competency Education
In Pursuit of Equality: A Framework for Equity Strategies in Personalized, Competency-Based Education
June 2017. This paper seeks to unpack the concept of equity, review key equity strategies that have been developed to serve historically underserved students, and offer an initial framework to launch discussion at the National Summit on K-12 Competency-Based Education. In this paper, three important concepts are introduced: 1. A definition of educational equity to guide the…
Author: Chris Sturgis
Organization: CompetencyWorks, iNACOL
Type: Report
Topics: Competency Education
Meeting Students Where They Are
June 2017. This paper, written by a team from reDesign, provides school and district leaders with an in-depth exploration of the relational, pedagogical, and structural dimensions of meeting students where they are in personalized, competency-based systems of education. It is organized around three driving questions: 1. How do we know where students are? 2. What do we…
Author: Antonia Rudenstine, Dixie Bacallao, Sydney Schaef
Organization: CompetencyWorks, iNACOL
Type: Report
Topics: Competency Education
