iNACOL PLUGGED IN 6.28.18
Dear Colleagues:
iNACOL published a new issue brief titled, State Funding Strategies to Support Education Innovation. The issue brief highlights case studies and action steps for policymakers to deepen their understanding of funding strategies to support innovation in K-12 education. Download a full copy of this issue brief and share with your networks:
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iNACOL published issue brief on state funding strategies to support education innovation for #K12 #edsystems http://ow.ly/143m30kCB3R @nacol @dalekfrost @mariaworthen #edpolicy
The Midwest Comprehensive Center at American Institutes for Research released Student Goal Setting: An Evidence-Based Practice to explore ways to promote evidence-based personalized and deeper learning strategies by districts and schools in states.
The Learning Accelerator released a new publication, Look Both Ways: A Framework to Help Education Leaders Navigate through Competing Approaches to System-Wide Change, which illustrates seven key questions leaders face as they enter and sustain education systems transformation.
Below are the latest events, news and trends shaping the future of K-12 education.
Plugged In Headlines: Other News in Personalized, Competency-Based Education
How to Participate in the “Professional Learning and Development for Competency-Based Education” Technical Advisory Group (TAG)
Katherine Casey, CompetencyWorks
Traditional Education Versus Competency-Based Education
Lillian Pace, KnowledgeWorks
How 6 Mass. Communities Are Imagining Life Beyond MCAS
Max Larkin and Carrie Lung, WBUR
Why We’ve Got to Talk About Race If We Want to Achieve Education Equity
Danielle M. Gonzales, Education Post
The Three Great Truths at the Root of Next Gen Learning
Andy Calkins, Education Week
Empower Learners: 10 Lessons On Innovation Leadership
Tom Vander Ark, Forbes
Improving Learning Spaces by Empowering School Users
Andreas Schleicher, OECD Education & Skills Today
Inside New York City’s Segregated High School System
Hechinger Report
New from iNACOL’s Blog: Education Domain
Certifying Learning: A Threshold Concept to Ensure Student Success and Career Pathways
How is it possible that our education system still graduates many students who lack basic reading and math skills when they hold a high school diploma? Not only do diplomas need to certify mastery of academic competencies but they…
CompetencyWorks Releases Updated Competency Education State Policy Map
CompetencyWorks released its updated map for 2018, a snapshot of K-12 competency education state policy across the United States. The map was last updated in November 2017. You can download a copy of the map here. In 2018…
New Report Provides National Landscape Scan of Personalized Learning in K-12 Education in the United States
To better understand how personalized learning is being approached and implemented across the nation, iNACOL recently partnered with the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), NORC at the University of Chicago…
What’s Happening with Competency-Based Transcripts and Rethinking College Admissions in the United States
What are competency-based transcripts, and why are they important? The New England Secondary School Consortium (NESSC) explains the main issue: “For more than a century, American high school students have earned ‘credits’…
Upcoming iNACOL Events
July Special Edition Webinar | Designing for Equity: Leveraging Competency-Based Education to Ensure All Students Succeed
July 18, 2018 | 2:00-3:00 p.m. ET
Learn more and register.
iNACOL Symposium 2018
October 21-24, 2018, Nashville, TN
Attendee registration is open. Early-bird registration discounts end July 11, 2018.
iNACOL in the News
Report Suggests Competency-Based Framework for K-12
Roger Riddell, Education Dive
In a new report titled "Levers and Logic Models: A Framework to Guide Research and Design of High-Quality Competency-Based Education Systems," iNACOL's Competency Works initiative seeks to lay out a model framework for what an…
4 Models for Competency-Based Education
Dian Schaffhauser, THE Journal
A new report from CompetencyWorks offers "logic models" for helping to build understanding about competency-based education. Co-author Chris Sturgis warned in a blog article that the 59-page document wasn't written for "newbies”…
Choosing Personalized Learning as a Strategy for Educational Equity
Tara García Mathewson, The Hechinger Report
“Personalized learning” is among the most discussed initiatives in education today. Most schools nationwide say they’ve implemented personalized learning, to some degree. Some use online programs or software to give students…
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