iNACOL PLUGGED IN 11.01.17
Dear Colleagues:
CompetencyWorks released a new report titled, Quality and Equity by Design: Charting the Course for the Next Phase of Competency-Based Education, which seeks to advance K-12 competency education along four key issues: equity, quality, meeting students where they are, and policy. iNACOL and CompetencyWorks are hosting a webinar to explore ideas within this report on November 8 from 2:00-3:00 p.m. ET. You can learn more and register here.
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Below are the latest events, news and trends shaping the future of K-12 education.
New from iNACOL’s Blog: Education Domain
CompetencyWorks Releases New Report on Quality and Equity by Design: Charting the Course for the Next Phase of Competency-Based Education
CompetencyWorks released a new report titled, Quality and Equity by Design: Charting the Course for the Next Phase of Competency-Based Education, and the ideas within it offer a resource for the field at a critical time in its evolution…
Why the Increased Focus on Social-Emotional Learning?
With increasing frequency, social-emotional learning (SEL) is getting renewed attention — in research, in policy and in the classroom. It’s not a new concept, so why is there new interest? Education stakeholders increasingly realize that it…
State Policy & K-12 Competency-Based Education
The traditional, time-based K-12 education system is ill-equipped to prepare all students for success. Even with high school graduation rates at an all-time high (82%), graduates are entering college with 37% needing remediation, and only…
Recommendations for State Policymakers to Build Competency-Based Systems
Fully-developed, student-centered systems require significant shifts in policy and practice. They require the right balance of policies that create space for innovation and those that ensure equity with adequate supports and quality…
Upcoming iNACOL Events
November Leadership Webinar | Charting the Course for the Next Phase of K-12 Competency-Based Education
November 8, 2017 | 2:00-3:00 p.m. ET
Learn more and register.
iNACOL Symposium 2018
Save the Date: October 21-24, 2018 | Nashville, TN
Plugged In Headlines: Other News in Personalized, Competency-Based, Blended and Online Education
Making Sense of the Learning Sciences
Chris Sturgis, CompetencyWorks
It’s Time to Take Back Personalized Learning
Phyllis Lockett, EdSurge
Without Changes in Education, the Future of Work Will Leave More People Behind
Sarah Gosner, The Hechinger Report
Teaching and Learning is an Open Book at Turner Middle School
Brandy Grieves and Winifred Lezine, Education Week
Why the Education Status Quo Cannabalizes New Ideas — And What To Do About It
Julia Freeland Fisher, Christensen Institute
How School Leaders Can Attend to the Emotional Side of Change
Katrina Schwartz, KQED Mind/Shift
Smart List: 50 Organizations, Schools, Networks and Resources Improving SEL
Getting Smart Staff, Getting Smart
iNACOL in the News
Relationships Are Behind All Good Learning
Kristen Vogt, Next Generation Learning Challenges
Relationships. They make next gen learning possible. When I was surrounded by educators at the iNACOL Annual Symposium in Orlando last week, “relationships” entered nearly every conversation. Relationships was not a formal…
Save the Planet, Starting Today
Tom Vander Ark, Education Week
What are the most important issues of our time? Ending extreme poverty? Ending conflict? Access to basic sanitation? Reducing the harmful effects of climate change? At the iNACOL Symposium (#iNACOL17) a group of us built a…
Why Students in Public and Private High Schools Will All Benefit from a Mastery Transcript
Patricia Russell and Susan Bell, Education Dive
Some might say we’re unlikely partners because we represent two distinct areas in the educational universe — private and public schools. As different as we may seem, we share so many of the same goals for students. In fact, after learning…
From Personalized Math to Micro-Schools, This NewSchools Cohort is Reimagining Learning
Bruce Anderson, EdSurge
How do you find educators who want to completely rethink our notions of what a school is and design something entirely new? That was the question gnawing at Scott Benson two years ago when he ran into his friend — and fellow senior…
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