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Five Big Ideas for Learner-Centered Competency Framework Design

May 5, 2021

Sydney Schaef

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Commit to Equity, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field, Engage Community

Competency-Based Education Needs Deeper Evaluation of Educational Equity Outcomes

April 22, 2021

Eliot Levine

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Commit to Equity, Evaluate Quality

Education Domain Blog

One Year In: Innovative Approaches to Learning During a Pandemic

March 25, 2021

Miho Kubagawa

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Commit to Equity, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction, Engage Community

Resources from the Strategic Reflection on the Field of Competency-Based Education

March 24, 2021

Eliot Levine

Issue(s): State Policy, Redesign Accountability Systems for Continuous Improvement, Build Balanced Systems of Assessments, Develop Educator Capacity, Modernize and Diversify the Educator-Leader Workforce, Issues in Practice, How to Get Started, Lead Change and Innovation, Commit to Equity, Evaluate Quality, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field, Activate Student Agency, Engage Community

New Educational Equity Resources to Transform Schools and Systems

February 8, 2021

Eliot Levine

Issue(s): Federal Policy, Design for Educational Equity, Create Space to Pilot Systems of Assessments, State Policy, Redesign Accountability Systems for Continuous Improvement, Build Balanced Systems of Assessments, Modernize and Diversify the Educator-Leader Workforce, Create Enabling Conditions for Competency-Based Education, Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Commit to Equity, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments, Engage Community

What’s New in K-12 Competency-Based Education?

January 27, 2021

Eliot Levine

Issue(s): State Policy, Base Learning on Mastery Not Seat Time, Create Enabling Conditions for Competency-Based Education, Issues in Practice, How to Get Started, Lead Change and Innovation, Commit to Equity, Evaluate Quality, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments, Activate Student Agency

Grading for Equity: A Teacher’s Reflections

January 14, 2021

Kristen Brown

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Commit to Equity, Rethink Instruction, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments, Learn Lessons from the Field

Education Domain Blog

Mere Engagement: Reflections about the Connections Between Online Learning, Student Agency, and Student Engagement

January 7, 2021

Laureen Avery, Marsha Jones, Sara Marr, Derek Wenmoth

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Commit to Equity, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction, Activate Student Agency

Top 10 CompetencyWorks Blog Posts of 2020

January 1, 2021

Eliot Levine

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Commit to Equity, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments, Learn Lessons from the Field, Activate Student Agency

National Research Convening on Building the Evidence Base for K-12 Personalized Learning: Overview and Session Materials

December 23, 2020

Eliot Levine

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Commit to Equity, Evaluate Quality, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field, Activate Student Agency, Engage Community

Scheduling for Personalized Competency-Based Education: Book Review and Reflections on Equity

December 17, 2020

Eliot Levine

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Commit to Equity, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction

How Will Your Research Narrate Our History?

November 4, 2020

Jilliam Joe

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Commit to Equity, Evaluate Quality

Education Domain Blog

Aurora 2020 Virtual Symposium Day 1 Wrap Up

October 27, 2020

Communications

Issue(s): Redefine Student Success, Redesign Accountability Systems for Continuous Improvement, Modernize and Diversify the Educator-Leader Workforce, Lead Change and Innovation, Commit to Equity, Learn Lessons from the Field, Activate Student Agency, Engage Community, Design for Educational Equity

Education Domain Blog

The Learner Promise: A Paradigm Shift Whose Time Has Come

October 22, 2020

Susan Patrick, Katherine Casey

Issue(s): Federal Policy, Leverage Career and Technical Education, Design for Educational Equity, State Policy, Redefine Student Success, Create Meaningful Qualifications, Develop Educator Capacity, Base Learning on Mastery Not Seat Time, Fund Innovation, Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Commit to Equity, Rethink Instruction, Activate Student Agency

Competency-Based Education Sessions at the 2020 Aurora Institute Symposium

October 14, 2020

Eliot Levine

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, How to Get Started, Lead Change and Innovation, Commit to Equity, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments, Learn Lessons from the Field, Activate Student Agency

PowerMyLearning: Tools for Culturally Responsive Partnering with Families During Hybrid/Remote Learning and Beyond

October 7, 2020

Elisabeth Stock

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Commit to Equity, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction, Activate Student Agency

What’s New in K-12 Competency-Based Education?

September 30, 2020

Eliot Levine

Issue(s): State Policy, Develop Educator Capacity, Modernize and Diversify the Educator-Leader Workforce, Base Learning on Mastery Not Seat Time, Create Enabling Conditions for Competency-Based Education, Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Commit to Equity, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field, Activate Student Agency

Elevating Student Experience to Build Equitable Learning Environments, Engagement, and Agency

September 23, 2020

Eliot Levine

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Commit to Equity, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction, Activate Student Agency

College and Career Acceleration Opportunities and Competency-Based Education

September 2, 2020

Eliot Levine

Issue(s): State Policy, Fund Innovation, Create Enabling Conditions for Competency-Based Education, Issues in Practice, Commit to Equity, Rethink Instruction

Equity-Based Educational Research: Emerging Lessons from City Year’s Work

August 26, 2020

Jade Eckels, Jessica Proett

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Commit to Equity

What’s New in K-12 Competency-Based Education?

July 23, 2020

Eliot Levine

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Commit to Equity, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field, Activate Student Agency

Book Review: So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo

July 9, 2020

Eliot Levine

Issue(s): State Policy, Develop Educator Capacity, Issues in Practice, Commit to Equity, Support Professional Learning, Activate Student Agency

Education Domain Blog

The Aurora Institute 2020 Symposium In-Person Event Is Canceled: We’re Going Virtual

July 2, 2020

Susan Patrick

Issue(s): Lead Change and Innovation, Commit to Equity, Learn Lessons from the Field

Competency Frameworks and Content Selection at South Bronx Community Charter

June 10, 2020

Eliot Levine

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Commit to Equity, Rethink Instruction, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments, Learn Lessons from the Field

Black Lives Matter

June 3, 2020

Eliot Levine

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Commit to Equity