Using Research & Development to Redesign: Immediately Implementable Methods and Practices to Accelerate Learning and Results for ALL Kids
VIRTUAL PRE-SYMPOSIUM WEBINAR We believe that when you don’t know the solution to a challenge, you go…
Strategies and Tools for Remote Learning from the Aurora Institute Member Survey
For schools beginning the school year with remote or hybrid learning, this blog post shares what the…
Eliot Levine Joins the Canopy Project Advisory Group to Help Identify Effective School Responses to COVID-19
Dr. Eliot Levine, Aurora Institute’s Research Director and leader of the CompetencyWorks initiative, was invited to join…
The Learning Sciences: How the Brain Was Built to Learn
This is the first of two guest posts by James Neihof, the recent past superintendent of Shelby…
What’s New in K-12 Competency-Based Education?
Resources to Support Competency-Based Education and Remote Learning Deeper Competency-Based Learning: Making Equitable, Student-Centered, Sustainable Shifts –…
Competency-Based District Leaders on Managing Change During the Pandemic
Headlines during the coronavirus pandemic suggest that many American schools had a disastrous spring in terms of…
Derek Wenmoth on the Development of Global Competencies
This post was originally published on Derek’s Blog on July 4, 2020. A new generation of students…
The Aurora Institute 2020 Symposium In-Person Event Is Canceled: We’re Going Virtual
Dear Colleagues, After much discussion and careful deliberation, we’ve made the difficult decision to cancel the in-person…
Supporting the Development of Student-Designed Performance Assessments
In this final blog post of a four-part series, I provide examples of student-designed performance assessments and…
Student-Designed Performance Assessments for Personalized Learning and Student Agency
In this third blog post of a four-part series, I will dig deeper into the Vermont Agency…