iNACOL PLUGGED IN 10.04.17
Dear Colleagues:
The iNACOL Symposium is less than three weeks away. This year’s theme is Personalizing Learning: Equity, Access, Quality. If you haven’t yet registered to attend #inacol17, register here today. Here are helpful links to learn more:
The RAND Corporation released a new report, Designing Innovative High Schools: Implementation of the Opportunity by Design Initiative After Two Years, which describes findings from the first two years of implementation across two cohorts of the Opportunity by Design initiative. This interim report provides detailed examples of how design principles are being implemented, similarities and differences across schools and districts, and comparisons across cohorts and over time.
Below are the latest events, news and trends shaping the future of K-12 education.
New from iNACOL’s Blog: Education Domain
What Needs to Happen so that Schools Can Meet Students Where They Are?
At the National Summit on K-12 Competency-Based Education, one of the key emerging issues explored was meeting students where they are. CompetencyWorks released a paper titled Meeting Students Where They Are…
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…
Leadership in Student-Centered, Equitable Learning Environments
Across the world, educators are transforming their schools to create more student-centered, equitable learning environments. Effective leadership is critical to the success and sustainability of this transformation. To better understand how…
Upcoming iNACOL Events
October Leadership Webinar | What Personalized Learning Looks Like Across the U.S.
October 11, 2017 | 2:00-3:00 p.m. ET
Learn more and register.
October Special Edition Webinar | 2017 iNACOL Annual Membership Meeting
October 12, 2017 | 2:00-3:00 p.m. ET
Learn more and register.
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 2017
October 23-25, 2017 | Orlando, Florida
Theme: Personalizing Learning: Equity, Access, Quality
Plugged In Headlines: Other News in Personalized, Competency-Based, Blended and Online Education
Why School Quality Measurement is an Equity Issue
James Noonan, CompetencyWorks
Recruiting Teachers for Personalized, Competency-Based Schools
Sajan George, Education Week
Study Evaluates the Impact of “Opportunity by Design” High Schools
Hillary Miller, eLearning Inside News
Massachusetts Districts Now Trade Notes on Best Paths to Personalized Learning
Tara García Mathewson, The Hechinger Report
10 Tips for Creating a Fertile Environment for Kids’ Creativity and Growth
Mitchel Resnick, KQED Mind/Shift
The Future of Skills: Employment in 2030
Tom Vander Ark, Getting Smart
Reshaping Student Networks in K-20 Education
Julia Freeland Fisher, Next Generation Learning Challenges
Learner-Centered Culture Includes Educators, Too
Students at the Center Hub
Determination and Passion: One Student’s Personalized Learning Story
Jillian Kuhlmann, KnowledgeWorks
Helping Students Become Engaged Citizens
Suzie Boss, Edutopia
iNACOL in the News
15 Dimensions of Personalized Learning
Tom Vander Ark, Education Week
As the dominant meme of U.S. education, personalized learning is frequently discussed and debated. We’ve each developed a mental model of what it is aspirationally and how that’s different from what we used to do. While there is…
Why There’s Little Consistency in Defining Competency-Based Education
Tony Wan, EdSurge
Grit. Open. Disruptive innovation. Powerful ideas that seem simple in print quickly take on new, and potentially divergent, meanings as they are applied to policy and practice. Some terms, including “open,” get appended to specific…
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…
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