{"id":4076,"date":"2016-08-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/blog\/cw_post\/recommended-summer-reading-2016\/"},"modified":"2020-02-05T12:59:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T17:59:14","slug":"recommended-summer-reading-2016","status":"publish","type":"cw_post","link":"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/cw_post\/recommended-summer-reading-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended Summer Reading 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-14082\" src=\"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Summer-Reading-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Summer Reading\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" \/>In case you haven\u2019t signed up for our monthly newsletter, here is our recommended summer reading.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Many teachers and leaders use the summer months to catch up on reading and advance their own professional learning. Start with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.competencyworks.org\/resources\/competency-based-education-across-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Competency Education Across America<\/a>, where you will find links to mini case studies to make it easy for you to learn what other schools and districts are learning.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t yet read the following reports, we highly recommend these thought leadership pieces to deepen your knowledge around competency education:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cl.s6.exct.net\/?qs=80f1ce560fbe4fddb0cf59cdd60bbad6a75713109362542d636207a2407a9050\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Looking Under the Hood of Competency-Based Education: The Relationship Between Competency-Based Education Practices and Students&#8217; Learning Skills, Behaviors and Dispositions<\/em><\/a> by the American Institutes for Research<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cl.s6.exct.net\/?qs=80f1ce560fbe4fddfb5b9eb9320e44e0f96399b55c1afc3bb039b14ff4de9aea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Implementing Competency Education in K-12 Systems: Insights from Local Leaders<\/em><\/a> by CompetencyWorks<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cl.s6.exct.net\/?qs=80f1ce560fbe4fdd5856f5bcee775513e9621c0f0f33cc45ef0067e971222371\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Promising State Policies for Personalized Learning<\/em><\/a> by iNACOL<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cl.s6.exct.net\/?qs=80f1ce560fbe4fdd3ecfb852c5a7dd66fd80ad93494510afe0d6d216eca3b1d0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Past and the Promise: Today&#8217;s Competency-Based Education Movement<\/em><\/a> by Jobs for the Future<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/cl.s6.exct.net\/?qs=80f1ce560fbe4fdd295bc759e80bfd473d48a6442202b5fa56aa95974d1644c3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pathways to New Accountability Through the Every Student Succeeds Act<\/a><\/em> by the Learning Policy Institute<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you prefer to delve into books, we offer the following recommendations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/cl.s6.exct.net\/?qs=80f1ce560fbe4fdd732a6f69a4ef6a580650a02de79294b3be5be92b3633184f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Delivering on the Promise: The Education Revolution<\/a><\/em> by Richard DeLorenzo, Wendy J. Battino, Rick M. Schreiber and Barbara Gaddy Carrio will introduce you to the basics of competency education.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cl.s6.exct.net\/?qs=80f1ce560fbe4fddd6947112f58d799348ed68b1fb182169b3bce225780332ad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World that Values Sameness<\/em><\/a> by Todd Rose. (Spoiler alert: Author <a href=\"http:\/\/cl.s6.exct.net\/?qs=80f1ce560fbe4fdd1bdb838d6ddc5973949094bec4a6b449339e841fe4f8d764\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Todd Rose will be keynoting<\/a> at the iNACOL Blended and Online Symposium this year. Register to attend <a href=\"http:\/\/cl.s6.exct.net\/?qs=80f1ce560fbe4fdd5f7f56843e3e00d7263cfd9052c0e86a94dc5c68394a1aaf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What resources have you read that helped strengthen your understanding of competency education? Let us know via email or on Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/cl.s6.exct.net\/?qs=80f1ce560fbe4fddc9973ea36eac0d54713aadcec3aa22a0a7e66b8a7b993ee8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@CompetencyWorks<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-4076","cw_post","type-cw_post","status-publish","hentry","issue-issues-in-practice","issue-learn-lessons-from-the-field"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Recommended Summer Reading 2016 - 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\/recommended-summer-reading-2016\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Recommended Summer Reading 2016 - Aurora Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In case you haven\u2019t signed up for our monthly newsletter, here is our recommended summer reading. 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