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Supporting the Development of Student-Designed Performance Assessments

July 2, 2020

Pat Fitzsimmons

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

Pat Fitzsimmons

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

New Hampshire’s Work Study Practices – A Five-Year Journey to Understand, Share, Scale, Deepen, and Meaningfully Assess These Critical Competencies

May 26, 2020

Jonathan Vander Els, Ellen Hume-Howard, Paul Leather

Issue(s): Federal Policy, Create Space to Pilot Systems of Assessments, State Policy, Redefine Student Success, Build Balanced Systems of Assessments, Develop Educator Capacity, Create Pilots and Innovation Zones, Issues in Practice, How to Get Started, Lead Change and Innovation, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments, Learn Lessons from the Field

Education Domain Blog

2020 Aurora Institute Symposium Planning and Coronavirus Response

March 5, 2020

Susan Patrick

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Learn Lessons from the Field

Education Domain Blog

Innovation Spotlight - The Skill, Will, and Resources that Create the Conditions for Young People to Thrive

February 25, 2020

Courtney Belolan, Matthew Shea

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Commit to Equity, Design for Educational Equity

Education Domain Blog

Q&A on Mental Health and the Future of Learning with Brooke Stafford-Brizard and Pamela Cantor, M.D.

February 17, 2020

Brooke Stafford-Brizard, Pamela Cantor

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field

Education Domain Blog

New Innovation Spotlight Episode – Adopting and Applying a Futures-Thinking Mindset in Education

February 10, 2020

Courtney Belolan, Matthew Shea

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Learn Lessons from the Field

Education Domain Blog

Bringing Critical Design Pillars into Practice

February 7, 2020

Brooke Stafford-Brizard

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Learn Lessons from the Field

Education Domain Blog

Mental Health and Wellness Are Key to Learning

January 21, 2020

Brooke Stafford-Brizard

Issue(s): State Policy, Redefine Student Success, Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Commit to Equity, Rethink Instruction

Education Domain Blog

Education Innovation Is Flourishing Across the Commonwealth of Virginia

January 3, 2020

Natalie Slocum

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field, Activate Student Agency

Education Domain Blog

What Could a Shift Toward a Whole Child Approach Look Like in Schools? An Emphasis on Mental Health

December 23, 2019

Brooke Stafford-Brizard

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

Building 21’s Open Competencies, Rubrics, and Professional Development Activities

December 23, 2019

Thomas Gaffey

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, How to Get Started, Lead Change and Innovation, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments

The Competency Train Pulls Into Kankakee: Common Start-up Challenges and Strategies

December 17, 2019

Eliot Levine

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, How to Get Started, Lead Change and Innovation, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field

Education Domain Blog

The State of the Field, 2019

December 6, 2019

Susan Patrick

Issue(s): Federal Policy, State Policy, Redefine Student Success, Create Meaningful Qualifications, Redesign Accountability Systems for Continuous Improvement, Develop Educator Capacity, 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, Activate Student Agency, Engage Community

The Challenges of a Large, Diverse School District and the Promises of Performance Assessment Micro-credentials

December 2, 2019

Justin Elliott

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

Building a District Innovation Ecosystem Accelerates School Transformation

November 19, 2019

Eliot Levine

Issue(s): State Policy, Redefine Student Success, Create Enabling Conditions for Competency-Based Education, Issues in Practice, How to Get Started, Lead Change and Innovation, Learn Lessons from the Field

Education Domain Blog

CompetencyWorks Releases Report Updating Definition of Competency-Based Education

November 14, 2019

Eliot Levine, Susan Patrick

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Commit to Equity, Rethink Instruction, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments, Activate Student Agency

Education Domain Blog

Eliot Levine Shares News on the Definition of Competency-Based Education in the Latest Innovation Spotlight Podcast

November 12, 2019

DeQuendre Bertrand

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Commit to Equity, Rethink Instruction, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments, Activate Student Agency

Education Domain Blog

iNACOL Has Become the Aurora Institute

October 29, 2019

Susan Patrick

Issue(s): Federal Policy, State Policy, Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation

Education Domain Blog

Bringing Education Policy and the Learning Sciences into Alignment

October 24, 2019

Natalie Truong

Issue(s): Federal Policy, Harness Opportunities in ESSA, State Policy, Redefine Student Success, Develop Educator Capacity, Base Learning on Mastery Not Seat Time, Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation

Education Domain Blog

Getting to the Heart of Equity in Education - Pt. 2

October 16, 2019

Kara Bobroff

Issue(s): State Policy, Modernize and Diversify the Educator-Leader Workforce, Create Enabling Conditions for Competency-Based Education, Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Commit to Equity, Engage Community

Structuring Schools to Enable Deep, Student-Centered Learning in Real-World Settings

September 9, 2019

Sonn Sam

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, How to Get Started, Lead Change and Innovation, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field, Engage Community, Create Enabling Conditions for Competency-Based Education

Education Domain Blog

Bruce Friend Inaugurates iNACOL's New Podcast Series with a Discussion of the iNACOL Symposium

September 9, 2019

DeQuendre Bertrand

Issue(s): Federal Policy, State Policy, Issues in Practice, How to Get Started, Lead Change and Innovation

Education Domain Blog

Introducing the Keynote Speakers for the 2019 iNACOL Symposium

August 21, 2019

iNACOL Staff

Issue(s): How to Get Started, Lead Change and Innovation, Evaluate Quality, Learn Lessons from the Field, Create Enabling Conditions for Competency-Based Education

Education Domain Blog

What the Learning Sciences Are Teaching Us About Learning - Pt. 2

August 16, 2019

Pamela Cantor

Issue(s): State Policy, Create Enabling Conditions for Competency-Based Education, Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field