CompetencyWorks | December 2020

December 3, 2020

 

CompetencyWorks - An Initiative of the Aurora Institute

This monthly newsletter shares the latest CompetencyWorks blog posts and Aurora Institute publications—providing thought leadership and practical lessons learned from the field to support transformation toward personalized, competency-based K-12 schools and systems.
How Will Your Research Narrate Our History?

How Will Your Research Narrate Our History?

Dr. Jilliam Joe, Senior Director of Learning Insights and Research at LEAP Innovations, challenges us to lift all voices in our research. In her keynote address at the Aurora Institute’s recent National Research Convening on Building the Evidence Base for K-12 Personalized Learning, transcribed here, she encourages the hard but necessary conversations about the intersection of personalized learning research with racism, class, and systemic differences in America’s classrooms.
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Flex-Mod Scheduling to Enable Competency-Based Learning

New approaches to scheduling are an important part of putting high-quality competency-based education into practice. This blog post describes the flexible modular or “flex-mod” schedule at Legacy High School in Bismarck, North Dakota—which divides each day into 22 brief periods—and how it enables innovations in pacing, targeted supports, assessment, and more.
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Flex-Mod Scheduling to Enable Competency-Based Learning
Lessons from Tracking Student Flex Time in a Competency-Based High School

Lessons from Tracking Student Flex Time in a Competency-Based High School

When the schedule in a competency-based high school provides students with flexible time, how do students use it? How should schools support students in using this time productively? A study by REL Central and Legacy High School offers valuable lessons about flexible scheduling and how competency-based schools can do research to improve practice.
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Determining Attendance and Alternatives to Seat-Time
In a new issue brief, the Aurora Institute provides recommendations for how states can allow schools and districts more flexibility in determining what attendance means in the COVID-19 era of remote learning. The issue brief calls on states to allow districts more flexibility in creating attendance policies that focus more on whether students are learning than whether they’ve logged in
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Determining Attendance and Alternatives to Seat-Time
Fall 2020 Competency-Based Education Webinar Recordings
  • Building Educator Capacity for Equity: Competency-Based Approaches to Professional Learning for Teachers and Administrators
  • Choice in Learning: Examination of Students’ Use of Flex Time in High School
  • Competency-Based Education Systems: Performance Assessment Using Proficiency Scales
  • Deeper Competency-Based Learning: Making Equitable, Student-Centered, Sustainable Shifts
  • Designing Engaging, Purposeful, Rigorous Tasks for Remote and In-Person Learning
  • Developing Equity, Efficacy, and Effectiveness in a Competency-Based System
  • High School Internships in the Time of COVID-19: Mentorship, Connections, and More in Virtual Work-Based Learning
  • Impact of Personalized Learning Through Interest-Based Internships
  • Implementing Student-Centered Learning: Lessons Learned from Leaders in the Arena
  • Improving the Equity in Personalized Learning through a Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) Approach
  • Lessons from COVID-19: How Competency-Based Education Provided for Continuity of Learning in Three North Carolina Schools and Is Shaping the Path Forward
  • Straight Outta COVID-19: Designing for Equity
  • Supporting the Learner Throughout Their Competency-Based Journey: Examining Tech Standards

Wishing good health to you and your families, schools, and communities.

Eliot Levine and Susan Patrick
Aurora Institute CompetencyWorks

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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.
Contact: Eliot Levine
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