{"id":2735,"date":"2013-05-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/blog\/cw_post\/how-states-are-advancing-competency-education\/"},"modified":"2020-02-05T12:50:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T17:50:12","slug":"how-states-are-advancing-competency-education","status":"publish","type":"cw_post","link":"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/cw_post\/how-states-are-advancing-competency-education\/","title":{"rendered":"How States Are Advancing Competency Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.competencyworks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/map2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3340 alignright\" alt=\"map2\" src=\"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/map2-300x228-300x228.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" \/><\/a><\/strong>Do you have questions about how other states are transforming their education systems to competency-based schools?<\/p>\n<p>Here is your chance to hear directly from two state leaders and ask all of your questions. Join us for a CompetencyWorks webinar on May 17<sup>th<\/sup> at 3 pm ET on <strong>How State Educational Leaders are Advancing Competency Education<\/strong> based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.competencyworks.org\/resources\/briefing-papers\/\">Necessary for Success: Building Mastery of World-Class Skills \u2014 A State Policymakers Guide to Competency Education<\/a>.\u00a0 Join Susan Patrick, iNACOL; Jason Glass, Iowa Department of Education; and Don Siviski, Maine Department of Education for what promises to be a great conversation. And if you haven\u2019t joined one of our webinars before, \u00a0you should expect <i>two<\/i> great conversations because the chat room is always spinning with exchanges, ideas, and new relationships. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/viewform?formkey=dFNPNGI4bnp4VUNLMUNVMXJJeExja1E6MA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">register here<\/a> for the webinar.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to get up to speed on state policy issues we have a few resources you might find interesting:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>1)<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.competencyworks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/inacol_competency_snapshot_feb_2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Snapshot of Competency Education Across the United States<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>2)\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.all4ed.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Strengthening High School Teaching and Learning in New Hampshire\u2019s Competency-Based System<\/a> by Alliance for Excellence Education.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3)<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Listen to Paul Leather about New Hampshire\u2019s journey at the resources from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aypf.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Youth Policy Forum<\/a>\u2019s event <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aypf.org\/resources\/moving-to-mastery-a-national-policy-forum-on-competency-based-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moving to Mastery<\/a>. He starts about 30 minutes into the video.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4)\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 National Governors Association has produced a report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nga.org\/cms\/home\/nga-center-for-best-practices\/center-publications\/page-edu-publications\/col2-content\/main-content-list\/state-strategies-for-awarding-cr.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">State Strategies for Awarding Credit to Support Student Learning<\/span><\/a> as well as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nga.org\/files\/live\/sites\/NGA\/files\/pdf\/1210StateStrategiesStudentLearningPolicy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Competency-based Learning Policy Audit Tool<\/a> to frame your initial conversations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5)\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/competencybasedpathways\/home\/policy-frameworks\/state-policy\/state-policy-resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Competency-Based wiki<\/a> is serving a depository of information that we are collecting on state policies. <i>If you have anything we should add, please use the comment section below.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>6)<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Two CompetencyWorks issue briefs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmefoundation.org\/getmedia\/7bb4a61d-502d-455e-9960-542902d44ed3\/iNACOL-CrackingCode-full-report?ext=.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cracking the Code: Synchronizing Policy and Practice for Performance-Based Learning<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.competencyworks.org\/resources\/briefing-papers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Necessary for Success: Building Mastery of World-Class Skills \u2014 A State Policymakers Guide to Competency Education<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can also join us at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inacol.org\/events\/symposium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Virtual Schools Symposium<\/a> where Sandra Dop (Iowa), Diane Smith (Oregon), and Rose Colby (New Hampshire) will be sharing the different approaches across three states.<\/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":[377,379],"location":[],"class_list":["post-2735","cw_post","type-cw_post","status-publish","hentry","issue-state-policy","issue-create-enabling-conditions-for-competency-based-education"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How States Are Advancing Competency Education - Aurora Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/cw_post\/how-states-are-advancing-competency-education\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How States Are Advancing Competency Education - Aurora Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Do you have questions about how other states are transforming their education systems to competency-based schools? 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