CompetencyWorks | June 2020

June 24, 2020

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.

Black Lives Matter

We stand with those who demand immediate change and who are protesting terrible injustices. We also support building equitable education systems that will take longer to fully realize but can support lasting change.

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Transitioning and Sustaining Competency-Based Education During School Closures

South Bronx Community Charter leveraged its deep relationships with students, competency-based structures, and project-based learning to transition effectively in the center of the pandemic.

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Students from South Bronx Community Charter taking a selfie

Students at South Bronx Community Charter embracing each other

Competency Frameworks and Content Selection at South Bronx Community Charter

Well-designed competency frameworks and reflections on content selection from Executive Director John Clemente provide valuable models for competency-based schools.

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Recognizing the Critical Importance of Metacognition

Opportunities for students to reflect on where they are and where they want to be should be explicitly incorporated into learning. Over time, as students become more self-directed, the investment of class time pays off in greater progress.

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Student presenting project with poster to teacher

Young male students completing work at a table together

New Hampshire’s Work Study Practices – Equity and Assessing For Growth

Assessing student habits of success should be based on conversations, reflection, and goal-setting—not traditional grading. Jonathan Vander Els, Ellen Hume-Howard, and Paul Leather finish their series on New Hampshire’s “work study practices.”

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Essential Components of Local Assessment Systems for Personalized, Proficiency-Based Learning

Comprehensive school and district assessment systems are an essential part of ensuring equitable learning for all students. Learn strategies for building them from Pat Fitzsimmons of the Vermont Agency of Education.

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Illustrated framework of local assessment system

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

Eliot Levine, Susan Patrick, and Ashley Jones
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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