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

October 7, 2020

Elisabeth Stock

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

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

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, Activate Student Agency, Commit to Equity, Rethink Instruction, Support Professional Learning

Summative vs. Formative Assessment: From Binary Choice to Continuum

September 16, 2020

Don Weafer

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

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

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, Base Learning on Mastery Not Seat Time, Create Meaningful Qualifications, Develop Educator Capacity, Redesign Accountability Systems for Continuous Improvement

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): Create Balanced Systems of Assessments, Evaluate Quality, Lead Change and Innovation, 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, Activate Student Agency, Engage Community, Learn Lessons from the Field, Rethink Instruction, Support Professional Learning, Base Learning on Mastery Not Seat Time, Develop Educator Capacity, Redefine Student Success

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, Create Space to Pilot Systems of Assessments, Design for Educational Equity, Harness Opportunities in ESSA, Leverage Career and Technical Education, State Policy, Build Balanced Systems of Assessments, Create Enabling Conditions for Competency-Based Education, Create Pilots and Innovation Zones, Develop Educator Capacity, Redesign Accountability Systems for Continuous Improvement

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, Activate Student Agency, Learn Lessons from the Field, Rethink Instruction

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

July 23, 2020

Eliot Levine

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

Education Domain Blog

The Learning Sciences Supports the Shift to Student-Centered Learning

July 22, 2020

Alexis Chambers

Issue(s): Federal Policy, State Policy, Create Enabling Conditions for Competency-Based Education, Create Meaningful Qualifications, Redefine Student Success, Rethink Instruction

Education Domain Blog

Align K-12, Higher Education, CTE, and the Workforce with Competency-Based Pathways

July 20, 2020

Alexis Chambers

Issue(s): State Policy, Create Enabling Conditions for Competency-Based Education, Create Meaningful Qualifications

Competency-Based District Leaders on Managing Change During the Pandemic

July 16, 2020

Eliot Levine

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

Education Domain Blog

Trends and Analysis of Learning Sciences Literature

July 15, 2020

Alexis Chambers

Issue(s): Federal Policy, Issues in Practice, Rethink Instruction, State Policy, Create Enabling Conditions for Competency-Based Education

Education Domain Blog

Demonstration of Mastery Gives K-12 Credentials Their Meaning

July 13, 2020

Alexis Chambers

Issue(s): State Policy, Create Enabling Conditions for Competency-Based Education, Create Meaningful Qualifications

Education Domain Blog

Derek Wenmoth on the Development of Global Competencies

July 9, 2020

Derek Wenmoth

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