New Report on Action Steps for State Policy to Support Personalized, Competency-Based Learning
Transforming K-12 education systems to be truly student-centered requires a shift in expectations and assumptions about what…
What Learners Need to Thrive in a Changing World: Building Richer Definitions of Student Success
How can educators prepare the students of today for a challenging, unpredictable tomorrow? Education leaders and educators…
U.S. Department of Education Invites State Applications for a New Pilot on Innovative Systems of Assessments
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) created an Innovative Assessment Pilot and the much anticipated application was…
Sketching Out the Vision for a Competency-Based Policy Platform
It’s hard, really hard, to imagine different worlds. Sure, science fiction writers and film directors must have…
Fit for Purpose: Taking the Long View on Systems Change and Policy to Support Competency Education
This paper explores and reflects on the issues state policy needs to address in the long-term to…
New iNACOL Policy Issue Brief on Rethinking State Accountability to Support Personalized, Competency-Based Learning in K-12 Education
What could accountability look like to better support transparency of outcomes and improvements in practice toward high-quality…
Rethinking State Accountability to Support Personalized, Competency-Based Learning in K-12 Education
This issue brief shares state policy recommendations and resources for policymakers who are ready to rethink state…
From Vermont to New Zealand: Next Generation Approaches to Certifying Student Readiness for Future Success
Meaningful qualifications are credentials and degrees awarded based on demonstrated mastery of the skills, knowledge and dispositions…
Meaningful Qualifications and State Policy: Certifying Knowledge in Competency-Based, K-12 Education Systems
How is it possible that our education system still has many students who lack basic reading and…
Developing a Statewide Framework for Student Success Through Graduate Profiles
The previous blog, Redefining Student Success: Organizing Education Systems Around the Knowledge and Skills Students Need to…