iNACOL PLUGGED IN 12.15.17
Dear Colleagues:
iNACOL is publishing a blog series based on a new CompetencyWorks report, Quality and Equity by Design: Charting the Course for the Next Phase of Competency-Based Education. Follow the blog series here:
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Below are the latest events, news and trends shaping the future of K-12 education.
New from iNACOL’s Blog: Education Domain
Meaningful Qualifications and State Policy: Certifying Knowledge in Competency-Based, K-12 Education Systems
How is it possible that our education system still has many students who lack basic reading and math skills when they hold a high school diploma? Let’s examine what a diploma means...
Next Generation Learning Models for English Language Learners
iNACOL’s recent report, Next Generation Learning Model for English Language Learners: Promising Practices and Considerations for Teaching and Learning, provides an in-depth analysis of how new models in learning can be leveraged…
Developing a Statewide Framework for Student Success Through Graduate Profiles
The previous blog, Redefining Student Success: Organizing Education Systems Around the Knowledge and Skills Students Need to Succeed, explored the need to redefine student success to improve student outcomes and drive coherence…
Redefining Student Success: Organizing Education Systems Around the Knowledge and Skills Students Need to Succeed
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 citizenship in a civil society. A new definition of success is…
Building Shared Understanding of Quality through Design Principles
In a recent CompetencyWorks report, authors introduce 16 Quality Design Principles to build shared understanding of high-quality competency-based models and help states, districts and schools plan and develop competency…
Upcoming iNACOL Events
January Leadership Webinar | What Learners Need to Thrive in a Changing World: Building Richer Definitions of Student Success
January 10, 2018 | 2:00-3:00 p.m. ET
Learn more and register.
January Teacher Talk Webinar | How Teachers Can Create Powerful, Personalized, Productive Learning Experiences
January 18, 2018 | 6:00-7:00 p.m. ET
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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
The Five Pillars of Teaching and Learning at KM Explore
Chris Sturgis, CompetencyWorks
More Personal Means More Equitable and Just
Jim Shelton, Medium
The 6-Minute Master’s in Cognitive Psychology from CZI’s Bror Saxberg
Bror Saxberg, Summit Learning Blog
A School Leader’s Guide to Personalized Learning
Julia Freeland Fisher, Christensen Institute
Adults Need Space, Time, and Encouragement to be Lifelong Learners Too
Jennifer Ferrari and Jin-Soo Huh, Next Generation Learning Challenges
Extending School Far Beyond the Classroom Walls
Tara García Mathewson, The Hechinger Report
A Small Town School Embraces a Big Vision
Suzie Boss, Edutopia
Maximizing the Momentum of Micro-Credentials
Hashim Pipkin, Digital Promise
State Accountability Under ESSA: Fall 2017 Submissions
American Institutes for Research
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…
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