Next Generation Accountability: Creating Performance Frameworks for Student Success
This issue brief explores how policymakers can approach rethinking, redesigning, and rearchitecting next generation accountability systems. Next…
Diving into a Deep Blue (grass) Sea of Innovation, Part One: How Educational Cooperatives and Deeper Learning Teams are Poised to Help Transform Kentucky Education
As I began my eighteenth year in education, I felt ready for a new challenge. How could…
Building a Competency-Based Teacher Education Program: The High Meadows Experience, Part 2
In my first blog post, I introduced the principles and structure of High Meadows Graduate School of…
Personalized Learning Plans at Bellows Free Academy in Fairfax, Vermont
This is the second blog post based on Jensen Welch’s dissertation research, which used youth participatory action…
Building a Competency-Based Teacher Education Program: The High Meadows Experience, Part 1
This is the first of two posts about the competency-based teacher education program at the High Meadows…
The Quiet Revolution in Education: Building a More Effective, Personalized, Future-Focused Education System in Kentucky
The stories we hear these days about education are largely focused either on the culture wars–what gets…
CBE Starter Pack 4: Progress Based on Mastery
When educators begin to explore competency-based education (CBE), the CompetencyWorks Initiative is a key place to start,…
Utah’s Launchpad to Personalized, Competency-Based Learning
This post is one of a two-part series about school transformation in Utah along with Navigating Personalized,…
Using Competency Performance Levels as Predictors of College Persistence in Competency-Based Schools
School boards, policymakers, parents, and community members continue to grapple with the best way to measure our…
Aurora Institute’s 2022 State Policy Priorities
The Aurora Institute’s new broad-based policy agenda issues a call-to-action for state education policymakers and provides twelve…