Dear Colleagues,
The iNACOL Symposium is next week, and CompetencyWorks posted a guide to the sessions
in the competency-based education strand. There will also be a CompetencyWorks
Meetup at 5:15 p.m. on Monday, October 28 during the President’s
Reception — look for the CompetencyWorks Lounge sign in Oasis 1/Innovation
Corner and come meet your colleagues from across the country and around the
world.
In October CompetencyWorks
updated the much-visited Competency-Based
Education Across America post — a state-by-state list of almost 200 blog
posts from visits and interviews across 26 states. Schools, districts, and
support organizations use these inspirational accounts of local reforms to
inform deeper competency-based learning and systems change in their own
settings.
A visit to Alaska inspired a series about the Chugach School
District, which has been doing deep competency-based education for more than 20
years:
CompetencyWorks also
shared Learner
Variability in the Classroom through Micro-credentials, by Wendy
Xiao of Digital Promise. It’s an account of one teacher’s use of a
micro-credential on self-regulation to support diverse learners in her
classroom. It was part of a stack of 15 micro-credentials available as part of
the Learner Variability project. The annual CompetencyWorks
Strategic
Reflection on the Field of Competency-Based Education webinar
took place in October to share developments in the field and insights to inform
the future direction of competency-based education. The webinar slides and
recording are available here.
Wishing you well,
Eliot Levine, Susan Patrick, Ashley JonesiNACOL CompetencyWorks | 
