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Educator Micro-Credentials: Better for My Learning and Better for Students
March 12, 2024
Issue(s): State Policy, Develop Educator Capacity, Issues in Practice, Support Professional Learning
Rethinking Learning Through Educator Micro-Credentials
March 5, 2024
Issue(s): State Policy, Develop Educator Capacity, Issues in Practice, Support Professional Learning
Diving into a Deep Blue(grass) Sea of Innovation, Part Two: Early Lessons Learned When Implementing Multi-District Deeper Learning in Kentucky
January 25, 2023
Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Support Professional Learning, Develop Educator Capacity
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
January 19, 2023
Issue(s): State Policy, Develop Educator Capacity, Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Support Professional Learning
Building a Competency-Based Teacher Education Program: The High Meadows Experience, Part 2
January 10, 2023
Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Support Professional Learning, Learn Lessons from the Field, Develop Educator Capacity, Modernize and Diversify the Educator-Leader Workforce
Building a Competency-Based Teacher Education Program: The High Meadows Experience, Part 1
December 13, 2022
Issue(s): Develop Educator Capacity, Support Professional Learning, Learn Lessons from the Field
A Primer to Indigenous Education: A Case for Tribal Competency Crediting
February 22, 2022
Issue(s): State Policy, Develop Educator Capacity, Modernize and Diversify the Educator-Leader Workforce, Create Enabling Conditions for Competency-Based Education, Issues in Practice, Commit to Equity, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field, Engage Community
Competency-Based Education Sessions at the 2021 Aurora Institute Symposium
September 15, 2021
Issue(s): State Policy, Develop Educator Capacity, 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, Learn Lessons from the Field, Activate Student Agency
Education Domain Blog
Federal and State Policy Updates Published August 2021
August 4, 2021
Issue(s): Federal Policy, State Policy, Develop Educator Capacity, Modernize and Diversify the Educator-Leader Workforce, Fund Innovation
Education Domain Blog
Federal and State Policy Updates Published July 12th
July 12, 2021
Issue(s): Federal Policy, Develop Educator Capacity, Modernize and Diversify the Educator-Leader Workforce, Fund Innovation
Resources from the Strategic Reflection on the Field of Competency-Based Education
March 24, 2021
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
A Cornucopia of Competency-Based Education Resources from Vermont
March 18, 2021
Issue(s): State Policy, Redefine Student Success, Develop Educator Capacity, Create Enabling Conditions for Competency-Based Education, Issues in Practice, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction
CompetencyWorks Releases Report on Professional Learning Strategies to Strengthen Local Assessment Systems for Proficiency-Based Education
October 27, 2020
Issue(s): State Policy, Build Balanced Systems of Assessments, Develop Educator Capacity, Create Enabling Conditions for Competency-Based Education, Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments, Learn Lessons from the Field, Activate Student Agency
Education Domain Blog
The Learner Promise: A Paradigm Shift Whose Time Has Come
October 22, 2020
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
What’s New in K-12 Competency-Based Education?
September 30, 2020
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
Education Domain Blog
Education Policy Issues for the COVID-19 Era
August 25, 2020
Issue(s): Federal Policy, Harness Opportunities in ESSA, Increase Access to Broadband, State Policy, Create Meaningful Qualifications, Redesign Accountability Systems for Continuous Improvement, Develop Educator Capacity, Base Learning on Mastery Not Seat Time
Education Domain Blog
Build Teacher Capacity for Systemic Change by Investing in a Competency-Based Professional Learning System
August 17, 2020
Issue(s): State Policy, Develop Educator Capacity, Modernize and Diversify the Educator-Leader Workforce
Strategies and Tools for Remote Learning from the Aurora Institute Member Survey
August 12, 2020
Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field, Activate Student Agency, Engage Community, Redefine Student Success, Develop Educator Capacity, Base Learning on Mastery Not Seat Time
Education Domain Blog
Moving from One-Size-Fits-All: Changes Needed for Innovative Assessment Pilots in the Wake of COVID-19
August 11, 2020
Issue(s): Federal Policy, Harness Opportunities in ESSA, Leverage Career and Technical Education, Design for Educational Equity, Create Space to Pilot Systems of Assessments, State Policy, Redesign Accountability Systems for Continuous Improvement, Build Balanced Systems of Assessments, Develop Educator Capacity, Create Pilots and Innovation Zones, Create Enabling Conditions for Competency-Based Education
Book Review: So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo
July 9, 2020
Issue(s): State Policy, Develop Educator Capacity, Issues in Practice, Commit to Equity, Support Professional Learning, Activate Student Agency
Education Domain Blog
A Review of the Literature on the Science of Learning and Development
July 8, 2020
Issue(s): Federal Policy, State Policy, Develop Educator Capacity, Issues in Practice, Rethink Instruction
Supporting the Development of Student-Designed Performance Assessments
July 2, 2020
Issue(s): State Policy, Redefine Student Success, Build Balanced Systems of Assessments, Develop Educator Capacity, Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments, Learn Lessons from the Field, Activate Student Agency
Student-Designed Performance Assessments for Personalized Learning and Student Agency
June 29, 2020
Issue(s): State Policy, Build Balanced Systems of Assessments, Develop Educator Capacity, Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments, Learn Lessons from the Field, Activate Student Agency
Improving Student-Centered Assessment Systems With Formative and Summative Performance Assessments
June 25, 2020
Issue(s): State Policy, Build Balanced Systems of Assessments, Develop Educator Capacity, Issues in Practice, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments, Learn Lessons from the Field
Essential Components of Local Assessment Systems for Personalized, Proficiency-Based Learning
June 22, 2020
Issue(s): State Policy, Build Balanced Systems of Assessments, Develop Educator Capacity, Issues in Practice, Support Professional Learning, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments, Learn Lessons from the Field