iNACOL PLUGGED IN | 4.18.18

April 18, 2018

iNACOL PLUGGED IN 4.18.18   Dear Colleagues:   Attendee registration is open to attend the iNACOL Symposium 2018 on October 21-24, 2018 in Nashville, Tennessee. Early-bird registration discounts are available until July 11, 2018. This year's theme is “Driving the Transformation of Learning.” Register to attend the iNACOL Symposium and share this announcement with your peers: Attend the leading conference in advancing #nextgen #K12 education. #iNACOL18 registration is open! http://ow.ly/10peTP @nacol #Teachers & #EdLeaders: Register to attend #inacol18, premier conference for #personalizedlearning & #CompetencyEd http://ow.ly/10peTP CompetencyWorks published a new report, Designing for Equity: Leveraging Competency-Based Education to Ensure All Students Succeed,offers a framework of strategies for personalized, competency-based education to ensure a more equitable K-12 education system. Districts and schools can use the principles within this report to develop an equity agenda within their personalized, competency-based systems.   Here are a few new resources from across the field: 10 Principles for Building a High-Quality System of Assessments, by Jobs for the Future. From Vision to Reality: Personalized, Competency-Based Learning for All Kids, by KnowledgeWorks. Agents of Their Own Success: Self-Advocacy Skills and Self-Determination for Students with Disabilities in the Era of Personalized Learning, by National Center for Learning Disabilities. Is Accountability Holding Back High School Transformation? by Colorado Education Initiative. The Practice Base For How We Learn: Supporting Students’ Social, Emotional, and Academic Development, by the National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development.   Below are the latest events, news and trends shaping the future of K-12 education.   New from iNACOL’s Blog: Education Domain   CompetencyWorks Releases Equity Report for Ensuring All Students Succeed in Personalized, Competency-Based Education The role of public education has never been more important – it is the bedrock of democracy. Competency-based education holds promise as a uniquely powerful model for fostering equity, but only if equity is an intentional design feature…   Action Steps for State Policymakers to Support Competency-Based Systems State leaders can support policy for K-12 competency-based education to help all students succeed. Fully-developed, student-centered systems require significant shifts in policy and practice. They require the right balance of policies that…   The Work of Transforming K-12 Education Our education leaders need: political courage and a will to change, knowledge and skills to lead, and educational innovation. There are implications for systemic changes that must be addressed if we are to transform the education system in…     Plugged In Headlines: Other News in Personalized, Competency-Based Education   Understanding and Meeting Learners Where They Are Using the UDL Lens Kathleen McClaskey, CompetencyWorks   Building a High-Quality System of Assessments: New Paper Outlines 10 Organizing Principles Lillian Pace, KnowledgeWorks   ESSA Pilot Spurs States’ Interest in Performance Assessment Linda Jacobson, Education Dive   Nine Lessons from Brain Science from Dr. Melina Uncapher Tom Vander Ark, Forbes   Innovative Assessments: Widening the Horizon Adriana Martinez, Education Week     Upcoming iNACOL Events   April Teacher Talk Webinar | An Introduction to Student Exhibition Nights April 19, 2018  |  6:00-7:00 p.m. ET Learn more and register.   May Leadership Webinar | The Science of Learning and Development and Its Implications for Transforming K-12 Education May 16, 2018  |  2:00-3:00 p.m. ET Learn more and register.   May Teacher Talk Webinar | Strategies for Teachers to Drive Student Agency through Inquiry-Based, Authentic Learning May 17, 2018  |  6:00-7:00 p.m. ET Learn more and register.                                               iNACOL Symposium 2018 October 21-24, 2018, Nashville, TN Attendee registration is open.     iNACOL in the News   Choosing Personalized Learning as a Strategy for Educational Equity Tara García Mathewson, The Hechinger Report “Personalized learning” is among the most discussed initiatives in education today. Most schools nationwide say they’ve implemented personalized learning, to some degree. Some use online programs or software to give students…   5 Ways to Move to Personalized, Competency-Based Education Laura Ascione, eSchool News A new report from iNACOL examines five key issues that could help improve the future of U.S. K-12 education and increase competency-based education, according to the authors. In the report, the authors describe how the traditional…   Educator Development Key to Statewide Personalized Learning, iNACOL Says Sarah Schwartz, Education Week States integrating personalized, competency-based learning need to take the lead in preparing their teachers to implement these instructional models, argues a new issue brief from iNACOL. The brief encourages states to identify…   Facebook Twitter Linkedin YouTube