iNACOL PLUGGED IN 08.23.17
Dear Colleagues:
The iNACOL Symposium has announced the lineup of 200+ interactive sessions organized around the theme: “Personalized Learning: Equity, Access, Quality.” View the sessions here. iNACOL is also offering full- and half-day Pre-Conference Workshops designed for deeper learning and knowledge building in personalized, competency-based, blended and online learning. Browse and register for Pre-Conference Workshops here. If you haven’t yet registered to attend #inacol17, register here today.
iNACOL is publishing a blog series exploring four key issues in competency education: equity, quality, meeting students where they are, and policy. Follow this blog series here, and stay tuned for more:
Equity
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Introducing an Equity Framework for Competency Education
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Take on the Challenges: Ensuring Equity in Competency-Based Systems
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Building a Comprehensive Set of Equity Strategies
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Charting the Course for Equity in Competency Education
Quality
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Three Driving Questions for Developing High-Quality Competency-Based Systems
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Exploring a Four-Part Quality Framework for Competency Education
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Nine Structural Domains of Competency Education, Part I
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Nine Structural Domains of Competency Education, Part II
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How Could We Build a Shared Understanding of Quality in Competency Education?
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Charting the Course for High Quality Personalized, Competency Education
Meeting Students Where They Are
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What Does It Mean to Meet Students Where They Are?
Below are the latest events, news and trends shaping the future of K-12 education.
New from iNACOL’s Blog: Education Domain
New Report on Next Generation Learning Models for English Language Learners
Next generation learning models hold promise for meeting the needs of English language learner (ELL) students and supporting them towards lifelong success. iNACOL released a new report: Next Generation Learning Models for English…
Making Educator Professional Learning Personalized and Competency-Based through Micro-Credentials
Transformation of K-12 education systems to student-centered learning will require redesigning educator preparation and development systems to become personalized and competency-based. What are strategies to consider for building…
Assessment Literacy to Support Competency-Based Education Systems and Other Deeper Learning Efforts
Assessment literacy has traditionally evoked measurement principles such as validity and reliability accompanied by complex equations, statistical terms, and images of normal curves, ogives, and error bands. We now conceptualize…
Upcoming iNACOL Events
August Special Edition Webinar | Promising Practices in Next Generation Learning Models for English Language Learners
August 29, 2017 | 1:00-2:00 p.m. ET
Learn more and register.
September Leadership Webinar | Exploring Key Questions about Leadership in Student-Centered Learning Environments
September 13, 2017 | 2:00-3:00 p.m. ET
Learn more and register.
iNACOL Symposium 2017
October 23-25, 2017 | Orlando, Florida
Theme: Personalizing Learning: Equity, Access, Quality
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Plugged In Headlines: Other News in Personalized, Competency-Based, Blended and Online Education
Reflecting on the Field of Competency Education: Where We Started and Where We Are Now
Chris Sturgis, CompetencyWorks
ESSA: Exciting New Strategies for Educator Effectiveness
Tyler Barnet, KnowledgeWorks
New Advances in Measuring Social-Emotional Learning
Tara García Mathewson, The Hechinger Report
Debunking a Myth — Competency-Based Transcripts Don’t Disadvantage High School Graduates in the Admissions Process
Sarah Linet and Stafford Peat, CompetencyWorks
Helping English Language Learners Meet their Full Potential
Students at the Center Hub
Real-World Learning Gets Real: How One Chicago High School Turned the Corner Using Full-Time Internships
Chris Berdik, The Hechinger Report
Personalized Learning Helps Students Tackle Real World Complexity
Chris Stanley, Huffington Post
What Can Research-Practice Partnerships Learn from Each Other?
Paula Arce-Trigatti and Nina Spitzley, Education Week
Social and Emotional Skills: Everybody Loves Them, But Still Can’t Define Them
Anya Kamenetz, NPR
iNACOL in the News
Four Can’t-Miss Education Conferences for EdTech Leaders
Matthew Lynch, Education Week
The field of education has a plethora of conferences and assemblies where educators and industry leaders gather to learn about emerging developments, instructional trends and market disruptors. If you are interested in attending a…
Let Learners Get in Their Zone (of Proximal Development)
Marisa Kaplan, EdSurge
“Personalized learning” is a term that people take quite personally — and that leads to a variety of interpretations about what it means. That’s a problem, says John Reyes, director of educational technology for the Archdiocese of Los…
Report: Best Practices for ELL Students in Personalized Environments
Joshua Bolkan, THE Journal
The International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) has released a new report focused on trends and practices in personalized and competency-based learning for English language learners (ELL). The report, "Next Generation…
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