iNACOL PLUGGED IN 7.17.18
Dear Colleagues:
Over the past year, iNACOL published a series of policy issue briefs on key issues for personalized, competency-based learning:
This week on July 16-20, CompetencyWorks is hosting a Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on “Professional Learning and Development in Competency-Based Education,” where leaders and educators who have deep expertise in competency education are invited to provide feedback to a draft document on this topic. In this one-week virtual session, CompetencyWorks will obtain the best thinking from experts across the field, democratizing the development of ideas and advancing the field on this critical issue. Learn more about the TAG and sign up here.
Below are the latest events, news and trends shaping the future of K-12 education.
Plugged In Headlines: Other News in Personalized, Competency-Based Education
Summer Reading in Competency-Based Education
Chris Sturgis, CompetencyWorks
Personalized Learning at a Crossroads
Center on Reinventing Public Education
Four Inquiry Qualities at the Heart of Student-Centered Teaching
Trevor McKnight, KQED Mind/Shift
Louisiana and New Hampshire Share their Hopes for the Innovative Assessment Pilot
Lillian Pace, KnowledgeWorks
Getting Feedback Right: A Q&A with John Hattie
Sarah D. Sparks, Education Week
Teachers Share Tips on Making Makerspaces Accessible to All
Sharon Lurye, The Hechinger Report
Better Together: How to Leverage School Networks for Smarter Personalized and Project Based Learning
Tom Vander Ark, Lydia Dobyns, Getting Smart
Seven Top Decisions for Leaders Scaling Innovation
Ellie Avishai, Beth Rabbitt, The Learning Accelerator
New from iNACOL’s Blog: Education Domain
Invitation to Participate in Professional Learning & Competency-Based Education TAG July 16-20, 2018
Across the country, there are thousands of leaders and educators who have deep expertise in competency education who could make valuable contributions to advance competency-based education (CBE) and lead important…
How States Are Funding Innovation in Education and Supporting Steps for Policymakers
One of the most frequent questions district leaders and state policymakers ask of us is how other states are funding the capacity needed to support the transformation to innovative models of personalized, competency-based…
Issue to Tackle for Certifying Learning: Meaningful Qualifications
Not only do high school diplomas need to certify mastery of academic competencies, but they also need to certify mastery of a comprehensive set of skills, knowledge and dispositions students need to succeed after high school…
Senate HELP Committee Moves Forward on Perkins Reauthorization
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions voted unanimously on Tuesday to favorably report a bill reauthorizing the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act to the full Senate. iNACOL…
Upcoming iNACOL Events
July Special Edition Webinar | Designing for Equity: Leveraging Competency-Based Education to Ensure All Students Succeed
July 18, 2018 | 2:00-3:00 p.m. ET
Learn more and register.
iNACOL Symposium 2018
October 21-24, 2018, Nashville, TN
Attendee registration is open.
iNACOL in the News
Competency-Based Education Is Gaining Traction in States
Patience Wait, EdScoop
Almost every state in the U.S. has taken action to encourage schools and districts to move to personalized, competency-based education, according to a new report from iNACOL, a national nonprofit focused on transforming…
Report Suggests Competency-Based Framework for K-12
Roger Riddell, Education Dive
In a new report titled "Levers and Logic Models: A Framework to Guide Research and Design of High-Quality Competency-Based Education Systems," iNACOL's Competency Works initiative seeks to lay out a model framework for what an…
4 Models for Competency-Based Education
Dian Schaffhauser, THE Journal
A new report from CompetencyWorks offers "logic models" for helping to build understanding about competency-based education. Co-author Chris Sturgis warned in a blog article that the 59-page document wasn't written for "newbies...
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