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Lessons from Tracking Student Flex Time in a Competency-Based High School
November 23, 2020
Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Evaluate Quality, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field, Activate Student Agency
Flex-Mod Scheduling to Enable Competency-Based Learning
November 16, 2020
Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field, Activate Student Agency
How Will Your Research Narrate Our History?
November 4, 2020
Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Commit to Equity, Evaluate Quality
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
How Standards-Based Grading Led Us to Empower, Part 2: The Power of Evidence
October 23, 2020
Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field
How Standards-Based Grading Led Us to Empower, Part 1: The Tyranny of 82%
October 21, 2020
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
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
Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Commit to Equity, Support Professional Learning, 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
Elevating Student Experience to Build Equitable Learning Environments, Engagement, and Agency
September 23, 2020
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
Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Rethink Instruction, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments
Do Less, Do More: Strategies for Equitable Community Engagement
September 9, 2020
Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Engage Community
College and Career Acceleration Opportunities and Competency-Based Education
September 2, 2020
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
Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Commit to Equity
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
The Learning Sciences: How the Brain Was Built to Learn
July 30, 2020
Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field, Activate Student Agency
What’s New in K-12 Competency-Based Education?
July 23, 2020
Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Commit to Equity, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field, Activate Student Agency
Competency-Based District Leaders on Managing Change During the Pandemic
July 16, 2020
Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field, Activate Student Agency, Engage Community
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
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
Transitioning and Sustaining Competency-Based Education During School Closures
June 16, 2020
Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field, Activate Student Agency, Engage Community