This monthly newsletter shares the latest CompetencyWorks blog posts and Aurora Institute resources, providing thought leadership and practical lessons learned from the field to support transformation toward personalized, competency-based K-12 schools and systems.
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As a field that is serious about educational equity, competency-based education needs to build capacity and efforts to assess effectiveness in achieving equitable outcomes. Increased collaboration and supports are needed to conduct more widespread, rigorous, transparent, and meaningful research.
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Springpoint has developed a resource that outlines three phases of shifting to competency-based education. In this first of a three-part series, Elina Alayeva and Christy Kingham discuss developing common language, competencies, benchmarks, and systems that help everyone in a school community share a clear understanding of competency-based education.
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In this second post in the series, Springpoint discusses building core systems to enable CBE implementation. During phase two, school teams focus on developing and aligning a competency-based curriculum scope and sequence, instituting practices that build student agency, developing schoolwide grading policies, and selecting a learning management system.
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Springpoint wraps up their series with a discussion of personalizing pathways to graduation. In phase three, teams refine student learning progressions, explore what learning experiences beyond in-school instruction can be awarded credit, change the school’s schedule, and shift resources (e.g., budget, roles, responsibilities, school calendar) to support a personalized model.
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The Aurora Institute carries out an annual reflection process on growth, change, and needs in the field of competency-based education, which culminated in a recent webinar on equity, policy, practice, and research. You can access the webinar recording and slides, as well as a blog post with links and cover images for the dozens of resources discussed during the webinar.
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The Mastery Collaborative’s annual youth panels took place online this year, and they kindly invited the public. Youth Advisors from MC Schools discussed topics such as their sense of belonging in school, living and learning during the pandemic, MC schools’ use of culturally responsive-sustaining education (CRSE) and mastery-based learning, and how race, racism, and anti-racism show up in school.
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About CompetencyWorks
CompetencyWorks is an initiative that provides information and knowledge about competency-based education in the K-12 education system. Drawing on lessons learned by innovators and early adopters, CompetencyWorks is an online resource for sharing knowledge, original research and policy advances, and a variety of field perspectives. CompetencyWorks provides an informative blog with practitioner knowledge on key topics and papers on emerging issues, with resources curated from across the field of K-12 competency-based education.
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