{"id":13058,"date":"2020-07-23T01:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T05:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/?post_type=cw_post&#038;p=13058"},"modified":"2020-07-23T16:01:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T20:01:28","slug":"whats-new-in-k-12-competency-based-education-19","status":"publish","type":"cw_post","link":"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/cw_post\/whats-new-in-k-12-competency-based-education-19\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s New in K-12 Competency-Based Education?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-12688\" src=\"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Whats-New-3.png\" alt=\"Star That Says What's New\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" \/>Resources to Support Competency-Based Education and Remote Learning<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/us.corwin.com\/en-us\/nam\/deeper-competency-based-learning\/book270688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deeper Competency-Based Learning: Making Equitable, Student-Centered, Sustainable Shifts<\/a> \u2013 This comprehensive new book from Karin Hess, Rose Colby, and Daniel Joseph guides readers step by step through shifting organizational policies and culture, developing competencies and competency-based assessment, and building personalized instructional strategies.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/10iO-GYa80l93dGgLIBj2H_G6dICT6agX\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Perceptions of Learner Behaviors and Actions During Personalized, Remote Learning<\/a> \u2013 The Learning Accelerator examines how key personalized learning practices were carried out remotely this spring in the Lindsay Unified School District. The report offers a valuable planning resource for the coming school year.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nciea.org\/blog\/educational-assessment\/instructing-assessing-21st-century-skills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instructing &amp; Assessing 21st Century Skills<\/a> \u2013 A seven-part series on research and best practices related to instruction and assessment of 21st Century skills from Carla Evans, Jeri Thompson, and Chris Brandt of the Center for Assessment. The series reviews the literature and provides instruction and assessment recommendations related to critical thinking, collaboration, complex communication, and self-direction.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/cw_post\/transitioning-and-sustaining-competency-based-education-during-school-closures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Transitioning and Sustaining Competency-Based Education During School Closures<\/a> \u2013 John Clemente, executive director of South Bronx Community Charter High School, discusses the school\u2019s strategies for sustaining personal connections remotely and structuring learning from a distance, as part of a <em>Competency<\/em>Works blog series about the school.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/event\/learning-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-school-leaders-on-managing-change-maintaining-high-quality-learning-for-all-and-innovating-for-future-success\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Competency-Based District Leaders on Managing Change During the Pandemic<\/a> \u2013 In this Aurora Institute webinar, Patricia Deklotz, superintendent of Kettle Moraine School District, and Tom Rooney, superintendent of Lindsay Unified School District, discuss their districts\u2019 strategies for a successful transition to remote learning during COVID-19 school closures. Webinar highlights are also available in this <em>Competency<\/em>Works <a href=\"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/cw_post\/competency-based-district-leaders-on-managing-change-during-the-pandemic\/\">blog post<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skills21.org\/pip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Personal Interest Projects<\/a> \u2013 Providing opportunities for students to do personally meaningful projects helps them build agency during remote learning (and anytime). Skills21 at EdAdvance, a Regional Educational Service Center in Connecticut, is sharing a free online platform to help guide students through their projects, publish them online, facilitate collaboration, and support teachers to assess and provide feedback.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Educational Equity Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edutopia.org\/article\/guide-equity-and-antiracism-educators\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Guide to Equity and Antiracism for Educators<\/a> \u2013 Edutopia provides a wide array of resources for educators to build understanding of educational equity for themselves and their students.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greatschoolspartnership.org\/event\/summer-ed-equity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Learning and Planning for Educational Equity<\/a> \u2013 The Great Schools Partnership is offering a three-day virtual workshop August 4-6 for teams to examine inequities in their school communities, explore resources and tools, and develop promising next steps.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Promise-and-Peril-Examining-the-Role-of-Ed-Tech-for-Students-with-Disabilities.07212020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Promise and Peril: Examining the Role of Ed Tech for Students With Disabilities<\/a> \u2013 The National Center for Learning Disabilities highlights essential questions to ensure inclusive learning for students with disabilities in relation to providing high-quality, accessible educational technology for remote learning and beyond. More new NCLD resources on this topic are available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncld.org\/news\/policy-and-advocacy\/the-promise-and-peril-of-education-technology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Eliot Levine<\/strong>\u00a0is the Aurora Institute\u2019s Research Director and leads\u00a0<em>Competency<\/em>Works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","mapsvg_location":""},"legacy_category":[],"issue":[402,368,393,383,371,399],"location":[],"class_list":["post-13058","cw_post","type-cw_post","status-publish","hentry","issue-commit-to-equity","issue-issues-in-practice","issue-support-professional-learning","issue-rethink-instruction","issue-learn-lessons-from-the-field","issue-activate-student-agency"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What\u2019s New in K-12 Competency-Based Education? 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