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…
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...
A Cornucopia of Competency-Based Education Resources from Vermont
The Vermont Agency of Education offers outstanding resources for educators and leaders at all levels who are…
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…
How Vermont Is Strengthening Local Assessment Systems
Our CompetencyWorks initiative has released a new issue brief, titled Strengthening Local Assessment Systems for Personalized, Proficiency-Based…
Examine the Purpose of Accountability
State and district leaders are greatly concerned about how the disruption caused by COVID-19 will impact the…
CompetencyWorks Releases Report on Professional Learning Strategies to Strengthen Local Assessment Systems for Proficiency-Based Education
Today the Aurora Institute’s CompetencyWorks initiative released Strengthening Local Assessment Systems for Personalized, Proficiency-Based Education: Strategies and…
Demonstration of Mastery Gives K-12 Credentials Their Meaning
This post continues our special series on Future-Focused State Policy Actions to Transform K-12 Education. The series…
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…