CompetencyWorks | May 2021

May 28, 2021

This 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.

What’s New in K-12 Competency-Based Education?

CompetencyWorks provides brief reviews of new resources, research, and Aurora Institute news and publications.

Five Big Ideas for Learner-Centered Competency Framework Design

Sydney Schaef shares lessons learned from reDesign’s long history of designing and refining competency frameworks, a critical feature of learner-centered schools and education systems. Her five big ideas help us meet learners where they are by starting with a shared vision, focusing on equity, attending to the whole child, and breaking from the molds of grade levels and subject areas.

Strategies for Shifting to Student-Centered Learning from the Aurora Institute Annual Survey

Each year the Aurora Institute conducts a survey of our stakeholders as an important source of information from the field about our policy and practice work. This blog post shares responses to the question, “What strategies, resources, or tools (including tech tools or platforms) have been most helpful in shifting to student-centered, anytime, anywhere learning?”

101 Practice Suggestions from the Aurora Institute Annual Survey

This blog post offers more findings from our annual survey, sharing responses to the question, “What is one successful practice you would recommend for schools and districts in the coming school year?” Two favorite responses: “Talk less and listen more (sorry Hamilton)” and “Don’t be afraid to do something different. Even just one small change in one classroom can begin to make a big difference for students.”

Deepening Project-Based Learning: Lessons from Powerful New Research and Practice

As we shift toward competency-based education, project-based learning (PBL) offers a powerful strategy for greater student engagement and more authentic learning inside and outside the classroom. In this webinar, researchers and education leaders shared powerful new evidence of PBL’s effectiveness and insights to advance PBL practices in your school, district, or other setting.

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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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