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…
This issue brief explores how policymakers can approach rethinking, redesigning, and rearchitecting next generation accountability systems. Next…
Informed by the expertise and wisdom of thousands in its community, the Aurora Institute’s 2022 federal policy…
The Aurora Institute’s new broad-based policy agenda issues a call-to-action for state education policymakers and provides twelve…
This case study highlights a high school math teacher’s successful journey of taking the steps needed to…
Innovation zones represent an important policy lever states can use as K-12 reimagines its future post-COVID. Innovation…
School leaders mustn’t lose sight of the need for student agency and student engagement as they contend…
Attendance looks dramatically different in the COVID-19 era. Many states and districts have sent us requests to…
This report describes Vermont’s convenings to support schools, districts, and other education organizations seeking to create high-quality…
Education leaders recognize the need to transform the education system to disrupt inequitable, centuries-old practices that no longer fit the world in which we live. Modernizing our education system means moving away from an industrial age “one-size-fits-all” model in which teachers stand and deliver and learners sit and get. Today, we know more than ever about how students learn best, and bold policy actions can align current educational practice with this knowledge. This challenges traditional thinking around how to deploy resources for learning more flexibly to meet learners’ needs. Namely, these resources include teachers, time, spaces, funding, technology, as well as opportunities for community-based and place-based learning. It also requires increasing access and opening pathways toward future-focused learning experiences that will result in building knowledge and skills for lifelong learning and success.
The Aurora Institute’s Federal Policy Priorities are an equity-driven and future-focused set of recommendations designed to ensure the nation’s education system is fit for purpose. The priorities are intentionally constructed to support moving states and localities forward from their current state of education to future systems capable of preparing all graduates with the knowledge, abilities, and dispositions necessary to achieve success, to contribute to their communities, and to advance our society.