Elevating Student Experience to Build Equitable Learning Environments, Engagement, and Agency
Promoting equity and student agency—key elements of competency-based education—requires a deliberate focus on improving students’ experience of…
Summative vs. Formative Assessment: From Binary Choice to Continuum
This post originally appeared on the Great Schools Partnership blog on June 10, 2020. The Covid-19 pandemic has thrown…
Supporting the Learner Throughout Their Competency-Based Journey: Examining Tech Standards
VIRTUAL PRE-SYMPOSIUM WEBINAR Competency-based learning is informed by learner data. But what happens to competency achievement…
Lessons from COVID-19: How Competency-Based Education Provided for Continuity of Learning in Three North Carolina Schools and Is Shaping the Path Forward
A VIRTUAL PRE-SYMPOSIUM WEBINAR Many schools and districts struggled to shift to online learning during the COVID-19…
Improving the Equity in Personalized Learning through a Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) Approach
VIRTUAL PRE-SYMPOSIUM WEBINAR Personalized learning (PL) holds great promise for equity in K12 education, yet,…
Building Educator Capacity for Equity: Competency-Based Approaches to Professional Learning for Teachers and Administrators
VIRTUAL PRE-SYMPOSIUM WEBINAR A growing number of educational leaders are turning to competency-based micro-credentials as a mechanism…
Developing Equity, Efficacy, and Effectiveness in a Competency-Based System
VIRTUAL PRE-SYMPOSIUM WEBINAR An interactive conversation that will ignite transformational ideas based on experiences and adaptations for…
Aurora Institute Symposium 2020 Is Going Virtual
We have made the decision to shift our in-person Aurora Institute Symposium 2020 to a virtual convening….
Do Less, Do More: Strategies for Equitable Community Engagement
This post originally appeared on the Great Schools Partnership blog on April 15, 2020. Equitable community engagement—an…
Deeper Competency-Based Learning: Making Equitable, Student-Centered, Sustainable Shifts
VIRTUAL POST-SYMPOSIUM SESSION Do your competency-based learning goals look like 1980s skills checklists, or do they focus…