{"id":14443,"date":"2021-05-26T15:01:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T19:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/?post_type=cw_post&#038;p=14443"},"modified":"2021-05-26T15:01:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T19:01:53","slug":"whats-new-in-k-12-competency-based-education-22","status":"publish","type":"cw_post","link":"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/cw_post\/whats-new-in-k-12-competency-based-education-22\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s New in K-12 Competency-Based Education?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-14448 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WhatsNew-Graphic-250x250-2.png\" alt=\"What's New\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WhatsNew-Graphic-250x250-2.png 250w, https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WhatsNew-Graphic-250x250-2-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Equity Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/studentsatthecenterhub.org\/resource\/how-to-address-educational-equity-research-based-recommendations-for-educators\/?utm_source=marketo&amp;utm_medium=&amp;utm_campaign=&amp;utm_content=news&amp;adposition=&amp;mkt_tok=OTAwLVhCWC0yNDkAAAF7wJAI_Yn52HSLkpIdVm9f57lb7ykpMgqHcaUOkjAomiz2oC8pUpaCjQrsm9vGZgwMIxl-aQ-nY0lJUe_K8qKdkNx87W-KrCUvEB2WqRfwFg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Research-Based Educational Equity Recommendations for Educators<\/a> \u2013 Based on a study in eight New York City schools, researchers from the NYU Metro Center explore how different levels of understanding of the critical connections between mastery-based education and culturally responsive education influence the quality of educators\u2019 equity work.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/education.vermont.gov\/documents\/edu-essential-components-for-ensuring-lcas-are-culturally-relevant-and-equitable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Essential Components for Ensuring Local Comprehensive Assessment Systems are Culturally Relevant and Equitable<\/a> \u2013 The Vermont Agency of Education developed this document to guide conversations around equity and provide opportunities for system leaders and educators to intentionally use culturally responsive practices in assessment development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Research<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/studentsatthecenterhub.org\/compelling-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Student-Centered Learning Data Library<\/a> \u2013 On the Students at the Center Hub, KnowledgeWorks has launched a library of data that describe the impacts of student-centered and competency-based approaches on student learning and other key outcomes. They welcome your visits and your submissions of new findings.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lucasedresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Research-Summary-of-PBL-Rev1-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Project-Based Learning is an Effective Lever for Student Success<\/a> \u2013 Lucas Education Research recently completed four rigorous studies of project-based learning, an essential element of competency-based education. They found positive impacts on academic engagement measures across a diverse range of students, ages, locations, and academic disciplines. Research briefs on the four studies are available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lucasedresearch.org\/research\/research-briefs\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Competency-Based Education Resources <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/event\/deepening-project-based-learning-lessons-from-powerful-new-research-and-practice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deepening Project-Based Learning: Lessons from Powerful New Research and Practice<\/a> \u2013 In this webinar sponsored by Lucas Education Research and the Aurora Institute, district leaders, professional learning experts, and researchers share insights to advance project-based learning practices in your school or district. The event begins with key findings from the four new project-based learning studies described above.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigpicture.org.au\/what-international-big-picture-learning-credential\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Big Picture Learning Credential<\/a> \u2013 Big Picture Learning recently connected us with their network partners in Australia, who have developed a personalized form of assessment to portray a student\u2019s distinctive learning, with \u201cno ranking or scaling students against each other.\u201d Forty percent of Australian universities have signed on to accept this credential.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/whoyouknow.org\/Playbook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Five Steps for Building &amp; Strengthening Students\u2019 Networks<\/a> \u2013 This new playbook by the Christensen Institute distills strategies, tools, and metrics for building and strengthening students\u2019 networks. They frame investing in networks as an equity imperative, recognizing that opportunity is a combination of both what students know and who students know.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Summer Professional Learning<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/globalonlineacademy.org\/professional-learning\/course-catalog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global Online Academy<\/a> \u2013 Week-long competency-based learning courses including From Grading to Feedback, From Time-Based to Performance-Based, From Lessons to Learning Experiences, From Educator-Designed to Co-Designed, and From Content-Driven to Skills-Driven. Also several others focused on key topics for remote competency-based learning.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greatschoolspartnership.org\/2021-summer-events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Great Schools Partnership<\/a> \u2013 Multi-day summer institutes on fostering student engagement, implementing professional learning groups, designing better advisory systems, and learning and leading for racial equity.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nhlearninginitiative.org\/events\/powerful-learning-conference-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Hampshire Learning Initiative<\/a> \u2013 The annual Powerful Learning Conference will take place on three Tuesdays in July and offer opportunities to explore performance assessment, developing student portfolios, increasing student agency and self-direction, and building community partnerships and paid internship capacity.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pblworksevents.force.com\/s\/lt-event?id=a4U4W000001BD81UAG#\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PBLWorks<\/a> \u2013 A variety of courses, workshops, and keynotes to advance your ability to create high-quality project-based learning experiences with students and how school and district leadership teams can support the conditions for PBL to thrive.<\/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":[402,368,394,393,383,395],"location":[],"class_list":["post-14443","cw_post","type-cw_post","status-publish","hentry","issue-commit-to-equity","issue-issues-in-practice","issue-evaluate-quality","issue-support-professional-learning","issue-rethink-instruction","issue-create-balanced-systems-of-assessments"],"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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