It Starts with Us: An Exploration of Teachers as Self-Directed Leaders
In the second year of a global pandemic, I decided to make a change: I transformed the…
Competency-Based Education Across America
The Aurora Institute’s policy map shows widespread investment in competency-based education across the country. To highlight this…
A Year in Review: 2021 State Legislative Snapshot of Student-Centered Learning Policy Advancements
Since the beginning of the pandemic, American education systems and structures have been thrown into flux. The…
Federal and State Policy Updates Published September 2021
Federal Updates Additional State COVID-19 Relief Spending Plans Approved by the U.S. Department of Education – The…
Building Habits of Success with the BEST Self-Direction Toolkit
In competency-based education settings, learning focuses on developing essential skills, dispositions, and mindsets in addition to academic…
Federal and State Policy Updates Published August 2021
Federal Updates U.S. Department of Education Approves State Plans for Use of American Rescue Plan Funds to...
States Can Use Innovation Zones as K-12 Reimagines Its Future after COVID
Today, the Aurora Institute Center for Policy published Innovation Zones: Policy Flexibility to Reimagine and Modernize K-12…
Center for Policy and Advocacy April 2021 Updates
Federal Updates President Biden Announces Outlines the American Family Plan – During a joint address to Congress…
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…
From Seat Time to Credit Flexibility in Personalized, Competency-Based Education
This post continues our special series on Future-Focused State Policy Actions to Transform K-12 Education. The series…