iNACOL PLUGGED IN 11.29.17
Dear Colleagues:
iNACOL released a new issue brief, Redefining Student Success: Profile of a Graduate, which provides recommendations for state policymakers to generate a shared vision for student success that prepares all students for college, career and civic life. Download the issue brief, read a blog post sharing insights about this new resource, or view other issue briefs:
What will it take to transform K-12 education to student-centered learning for the long term? iNACOL is publishing a new blog series exploring a vision for transformation to a future state of education, capable of preparing every student to succeed in higher education, the modern workforce and in life. Follow the blog series here:
Next Generation Learning Challenges released the MyWays Student Success Framework as a tool to help school leaders and communities develop richer, deeper competencies for student success, giving students what they need to thrive in a changing world. Access the Framework here.
iNACOL is seeking to hire a Communicators Director. View the job posting here. Please consider sharing this position opening with candidates who may be interested.
Below are the latest events, news and trends shaping the future of K-12 education.
New from iNACOL’s Blog: Education Domain
New iNACOL Issue Brief on Redefining Student Success: Profile of a Graduate
Today, conversations are happening in states that explore how to build education systems that prepare young people for success in postsecondary education, the workforce, and civil society. A new definition of success is crucial to drive…
How Competency-Based Education Differs from the Traditional System of Education
Across the country, schools, districts and states are replacing the traditional, time-based structure with one that is designed to help each student reach proficiency. Educators organize learning in a variety of ways that respond…
Current to Future State: A Vision for a Future, Student-Centered K-12 Education System
In our last blog post, we introduced the threshold concepts we need to understand to embrace a vision of transformation to a future education system that can truly prepare every student for success. The threshold concepts are…
Why A Competency-Based System Is Needed: 10 Ways the Traditional System Contributes to Inequity
Before exploring key issues in a competency-based system, it is valuable to unpack why the traditional system is an obstacle to creating high-achieving schools and equitable outcomes. The strategies used by districts in response…
Four Threshold Concepts to Think Differently About the Future of K-12 Education
What will it take to transform K-12 education to student-centered learning for the long term? In June 2017, iNACOL published the draft paper Fit for Purpose: Taking the Long View on Systems Change and Policy to Support Competency…
Upcoming iNACOL Events
December Leadership Webinar | Empowering Leaders and Teachers to Scale Personalized Learning
December 6, 2017 | 2:00-3:00 p.m. ET
Learn more and register.
December Teacher Talk Webinar | Strategies for Teachers to Develop Students as Global Citizens
December 14, 2017 | 6:00-7:00 p.m. ET
Learn more and register.
iNACOL Symposium 2018
Save the Date: October 21-24, 2018, Nashville, TN
Plugged In Headlines: Other News in Personalized, Competency-Based, Blended and Online Education
Shifting Paradigms: Moving from an Instructional Paradigm to a Learning Paradigm
Institute for Personalized Learning, CompetencyWorks
Introducing the Student-Centered Learning Syllabus
Lori McEwen and Arthur Baraf, Education Week
How Personalized Learning Is Breaking the “Gym” Class Stereotype
Brian Kampper, Huffington Post
States Take Steps to Fuel Personalized Learning
Daarel Burnette II, Education Week
Schools Creating New Structures to Encourage Student Voice
Linda Jacobsen, Education Dive
How a Struggling School for Native Americans Doubled Its Graduation Rate
Emrys Eller and Alden Nusser, The Hechinger Report
iNACOL in the News
Innovation Equity
Sujata Bhatt, Regine Philippeaux-Pierre, Alain Balan, Jennifer Nicol, and Lauren Barry, Education Week
Two weeks ago a diverse group of Boston Public Schools (BPS) educators and administrators, both school- and central-office-based, went to the hubble and bubble that is the iNACOL symposium. Some went as presenters and others…
The Path to Personalized Learning Is Not Straight
Tara García Mathewson, The Hechinger Report
Three different districts. Three different time zones. Three different paths to the same general goal — personalized learning. Administrators from Henry County Schools, southwest of Atlanta; School District 51 in Mesa County, Colorado…
Report: Scaling and Sustaining Competency-Based Education
Dian Schaffhauser, THE Journal
It's no longer enough to simply begin the journey of competency-based education. Enough schools are trying to implement CBE that it's time to write the second chapter by building on what is already known to work. That's the idea…
‘Personalized Learning’ Pitches as Alternative to Current WV Ed Methods
Ryan Quinn, Charleston Gazette-Mail
Arguing that jobs are threatened by future automation and criticizing current prevailing education models, the president and chief executive officer of the International Association for K-12 Online Learning advocated Wednesday for…
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