CompetencyWorks | December 2022

December 27, 2022

On this day of Winter Solstice, we hope you find a moment to pause and reflect on your journey in education. What supports your own learning? How can we design learning in ways aligned to our values and the learning sciences? In December, the CompetencyWorks Initiative explored these themes and more.

Policy Corner

Why PD Must Be Learner-Centered, Too
Diana Lebeaux of the Teacher Collaborative makes a case for learner-driven teacher professional learning. Find ideas to use in the teacher-designed resources from the Student-Centered Learning toolkit and the Teacher Collaborative’s approach to professional learning.

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Building a Competency-Based Teacher Education Program: The High Meadows Experience, Part 1
Learn about the origins and design of the High Meadows Graduate School of Teaching and Learning’s competency-based teacher education program in a post by Dr. Peter Laipson, the founding Chief Academic Officer.

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When Students and Adults Work Together Toward Change
Be inspired to collaborate with students as you learn from Dr. Jensen Welch’s action research project to revise her school’s Personalized Learning Plan process. This first post based on her dissertation research explores how the process led to boosts in student participants’ agency, voice, and self-efficacy.

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Avoiding the Pitfalls of Fake-quity: A Powerful Learning Moment from the 2022 Symposium
This reflection on the Aurora Symposium session about the equity journey of Regional School Unit No. 10 (RSU 10) in Maine, centers around the letter Jamaica Ford wrote to the administration of her former school about the racism that she faced as a young Black student in a predominantly white rural school district. Find ideas and tools for equity in action.

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CBE Starter Pack 5: Learn Actively With Varied Pathways and Pacing
The fifth post in a series of “CBE Starter Packs” for the seven elements of the Aurora Institute’s 2019 CBE Definition is here! Whether you are new to CBE or delving deeper into how to design personalized, active learning pathways, find background information and curated resources to get started and keep going.

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Register for our webinar An Introduction to K-12 Competency-Based Education on January 25, 2022 from 3-4 p.m. ET. Joined by educators and students, we will examine what CBE looks like in practice in schools and discuss professional learning resources for transitioning to a competency-based approach.

Recordings from the 2022 Aurora Institute Symposium are now available as a resource.

Open Library

Mark your calendar for the Aurora Symposium 2023 in Palm Springs, CA on October 15-17, 2023! Stay tuned for more details and registration!

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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: Laurie Gagnon
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