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Educator Support in Competency-Based Learning Schools

February 23, 2023

Brian M. Stack and Jonathan G. Vander Els

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, How to Get Started, Lead Change and Innovation, Support Professional Learning

Culture is the Foundation: Building Relationships and Community at ACE

February 16, 2023

Laurie Gagnon

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

Top Ten CompetencyWorks Blog Posts of 2022

February 14, 2023

Laurie Gagnon

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

4 Keys to Building Deeper Critical and Creative Thinking in Your Classroom

February 7, 2023

Karin Hess

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, How to Get Started, Rethink Instruction, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments, Activate Student Agency

Education Domain Blog

Join the Aurora Institute at SXSW EDU 2023!

February 1, 2023

Chiara Wegener

Issue(s): Aurora Institute, How to Get Started, Lead Change and Innovation, Rethink Instruction

CBE Starter Pack 6: Equity Strategies Drive Culture, Structures, and Pedagogy

January 31, 2023

Laurie Gagnon

Issue(s): Federal Policy, Design for Educational Equity, State Policy, Create Enabling Conditions for Competency-Based Education, Issues in Practice, Commit to Equity

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

Adam Watson

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

Adam Watson

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

Peter Laipson

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Support Professional Learning, Learn Lessons from the Field, Develop Educator Capacity, Modernize and Diversify the Educator-Leader Workforce

Personalized Learning Plans at Bellows Free Academy in Fairfax, Vermont

January 3, 2023

Jensen Welch

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Learn Lessons from the Field, Activate Student Agency, Create Enabling Conditions for Competency-Based Education

CBE Starter Pack 5: Learn Actively With Varied Pathways and Pacing

December 20, 2022

Laurie Gagnon

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, How to Get Started, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field

Avoiding the Pitfalls of Fake-quity: A Powerful Learning Moment from the 2022 Symposium

December 15, 2022

Laurie Gagnon, Maisha Maliha

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

Building a Competency-Based Teacher Education Program: The High Meadows Experience, Part 1

December 13, 2022

Peter Laipson

Issue(s): Develop Educator Capacity, Support Professional Learning, Learn Lessons from the Field

When Students and Adults Work Together Toward Change

December 8, 2022

Jensen Welch

Issue(s): Learn Lessons from the Field, Activate Student Agency

Education Domain Blog

Lessons from an Australian School: 4 Key Strategies for Promoting Student Agency

December 1, 2022

Chiara Wegener

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

Why PD Must Be Learner-Centered, Too

December 1, 2022

Diana Lebeaux

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Support Professional Learning

Education Domain Blog

The Quiet Revolution in Education: Building a More Effective, Personalized, Future-Focused Education System in Kentucky

November 28, 2022

Susan Patrick, Charles Reigeluth

Issue(s): Redefine Student Success, Create Meaningful Qualifications, Base Learning on Mastery Not Seat Time, Fund Innovation, Lead Change and Innovation, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field

Personalized, Competency-Based Learning Can and Should Replace Tracking – Here’s Why

November 23, 2022

Eric Toshalis and Virgel Hammonds

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

CBE Starter Pack 4: Progress Based on Mastery

November 17, 2022

Laurie Gagnon

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, How to Get Started, Base Learning on Mastery Not Seat Time

Dangerous Conversations: The Importance of Empathy, Grace, and Skill

November 10, 2022

Gary Chapin

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Engage Community

Navigating Personalized, Competency-Based Learning in Utah: The Cruise Ship & The Speedboat

October 25, 2022

Sydney Young and Michael Hakkarinen

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

Utah’s Launchpad to Personalized, Competency-Based Learning

October 25, 2022

Sydney Young and Michael Hakkarinen

Issue(s): State Policy, Create Pilots and Innovation Zones, Fund Innovation, Create Enabling Conditions for Competency-Based Education

Competency-Based Education at #Aurora22

October 21, 2022

Laurie Gagnon

Issue(s): Aurora Institute Symposium, Issues in Practice

Old Habits Die Hard: How to Build New Moves and Habits to Sustain Change

October 20, 2022

Andrea Stewart

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

CBE Starter Pack 3: Timely, Differentiated Support

October 18, 2022

Laurie Gagnon

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, How to Get Started, Rethink Instruction