{"id":3877,"date":"2016-04-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/blog\/cw_post\/ready-by-design\/"},"modified":"2020-02-05T12:58:02","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T17:58:02","slug":"ready-by-design","status":"publish","type":"cw_post","link":"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/cw_post\/ready-by-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready by Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"readyAs middle and high schools across the country make the transition to competency-based structures to replace the sorting structures of the traditional system, they have to answer three big questions along the way:<\/p>\n

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  1. What do you want students to know and be able to do in order to be successful in the transition after they leave your school?<\/li>\n
  2. What is your theory of how students develop? What is your philosophy of how to engage, motivate, and empower students to become lifelong learners who can be successful in college and careers?<\/li>\n
  3. What is your pedagogical philosophy? What is your strategy of teaching and learning, and how is that put into practice in your school?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Some schools are very clear on these questions while others haven\u2019t yet taken into account what research tells us about development, engagement, motivation, and learning. To help you think about the second question regarding adolescent development, take a peek at the new paper Ready by Design: The Science (and Art) of Youth Readiness<\/a> by Stephanie Krauss, Karen Pittman and Caitlin Johnson published by the Forum for Youth Investment.<\/p>\n

    For those of us focusing on competency-based education, the authors point out four readiness traps that are a good reminder.<\/p>\n