Mere Engagement: Reflections about the Connections Between Online Learning, Student Agency, and Student Engagement
School leaders mustn’t lose sight of the need for student agency and student engagement as they contend…
Top 10 CompetencyWorks Blog Posts of 2020
For this year-end roundup, a slight variation on the top-ten genre is that it features the most-read…
National Research Convening on Building the Evidence Base for K-12 Personalized Learning: Overview and Session Materials
The National Research Convening on Building the Evidence Base for K‐12 Personalized Learning was held on October…
Competency-Based Education in Harrisburg, South Dakota
Travis Lape, Innovative Programs Director for the Harrisburg School District in South Dakota, was a presenter for…
Lessons from Tracking Student Flex Time in a Competency-Based High School
The previous blog post described the “flex-mod” schedule that Legacy High School is using to facilitate competency-based…
Flex-Mod Scheduling to Enable Competency-Based Learning
New approaches to scheduling are an important part of putting high-quality competency-based education into practice. Key elements…
Aurora 2020 Virtual Symposium Day 1 Wrap Up
The first day of the Aurora Institute 2020 Virtual Symposium brought together educators, system leaders, and education…
CompetencyWorks Releases Report on Professional Learning Strategies to Strengthen Local Assessment Systems for Proficiency-Based Education
Today the Aurora Institute’s CompetencyWorks initiative released Strengthening Local Assessment Systems for Personalized, Proficiency-Based Education: Strategies and…
The Learner Promise: A Paradigm Shift Whose Time Has Come
The Aurora Institute today released A Promise for Equitable Futures: Enabling Systems Change to Scale Educational and…
A Promise for Equitable Futures: Enabling Systems Change to Scale Educational and Economic Mobility Pathways
Fewer than one in five American students follow a clear and uninterrupted path from high school through…