{"id":2641,"date":"2012-12-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/blog\/cw_post\/yes-this-is-definitely-evidence\/"},"modified":"2020-02-05T12:49:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T17:49:30","slug":"yes-this-is-definitely-evidence","status":"publish","type":"cw_post","link":"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/cw_post\/yes-this-is-definitely-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, This Is Definitely Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2503\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2503\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.competencyworks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-2012-12-03-at-1.03.57-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2503\" title=\"Screen Shot 2012-12-03 at 1.03.57 PM\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2012-12-03-at-1.03.57-PM-150x150.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">from cbsadams50.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.competencyworks.org\/2012\/11\/evidence\/\">previous post<\/a> I summarized the evidence of competency education making a difference in student achievement and school performance.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes a picture says a thousand words.\u00a0 Below is a snapshot of Adams 50 transformation from having seven schools identified as lowest-performing to having zero. ZERO.\u00a0 Notice the schools in green \u2013 those are the highest performing schools that expanded from two to seven schools in three years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Adams-50-picture-copy1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2505\" title=\"Adams 50 picture copy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Adams-50-picture-copy1.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can see the image more clearly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ednewscolorado.org\/2012\/08\/27\/43202-no-more-turnaround-labels-for-westminster#cha\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Adams 50 embraced competency education because they knew the traditional time-based system was simply not working.\u00a0 Their leadership is rooted in their community. It\u2019s so strong that it has sustained a change in superintendents. They\u2019ve worked with the Reinventing Schools Coalition, adapting their model as needed to create a system that works for them. They are expanding their efforts to create information systems that are able to track student progress based upon in classroom, game-based, online, and community-based learning with the support of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatesfoundation.org\/Pages\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation<\/a>\u2019s investments in Project Mastery.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ednewscolorado.org\/2012\/08\/27\/43202-no-more-turnaround-labels-for-westminster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsadams50.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Adams 50 competency-based system here. <\/a><\/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":[368,371],"location":[114],"class_list":["post-2641","cw_post","type-cw_post","status-publish","hentry","issue-issues-in-practice","issue-learn-lessons-from-the-field","location-colorado"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - 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