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How Standards-Based Grading Led Us to Empower, Part 2: The Power of Evidence

October 23, 2020

Adam Watson

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field

Education Domain Blog

Grading Policies Need to Be Re-Examined to Support the Shift to Competency-Based Education

October 23, 2020

Alexis Chambers

Issue(s): State Policy, Redefine Student Success, Create Meaningful Qualifications, Redesign Accountability Systems for Continuous Improvement, Base Learning on Mastery Not Seat Time

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

Education Domain Blog

Move Away from Seat Time Credits to Awarding Credit Based on Demonstrated Mastery

October 22, 2020

Alexis Chambers

Issue(s): Base Learning on Mastery Not Seat Time

How Standards-Based Grading Led Us to Empower, Part 1: The Tyranny of 82%

October 21, 2020

Adam Watson

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Evaluate Quality, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field

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

Education Domain Blog

The Evolution of NCAA Nontraditional High School Program Reviews

October 6, 2020

Sarah Overpeck

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

Education Domain Blog

Systems Thinking Can Help Spark and Sustain Change

September 28, 2020

Katherine Prince

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

Summative vs. Formative Assessment: From Binary Choice to Continuum

September 16, 2020

Don Weafer

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Rethink Instruction, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments

Education Domain Blog

Aurora Institute Symposium 2020 Is Going Virtual

September 11, 2020

Susan Patrick

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

Do Less, Do More: Strategies for Equitable Community Engagement

September 9, 2020

Moises Nuñez, Glennys Sánchez

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Engage Community

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

Education Domain Blog

Education Policy Issues for the COVID-19 Era

August 25, 2020

Susan Patrick, Alexis Chambers

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

Communications

Issue(s): State Policy, Develop Educator Capacity, Modernize and Diversify the Educator-Leader Workforce

Education Domain Blog

Announcing a Pre-Symposium Webinar Series - Building the Evidence Base for Personalized Learning

August 14, 2020

Communications

Issue(s): Lead Change and Innovation, Evaluate Quality, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments, Learn Lessons from the Field

Strategies and Tools for Remote Learning from the Aurora Institute Member Survey

August 12, 2020

Eliot Levine

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

Susan Patrick, Alexis Chambers

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

The Virtuous Cycle of Student Agency

August 5, 2020

James Neihof

Education Domain Blog

Eliot Levine Joins the Canopy Project Advisory Group to Help Identify Effective School Responses to COVID-19

July 31, 2020

Communications Staff

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Learn Lessons from the Field

The Learning Sciences: How the Brain Was Built to Learn

July 30, 2020

James Neihof

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field, Activate Student Agency