{"id":5780,"date":"2012-05-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/blog\/cw_post\/welcome-to-competencyworks-why-we-are-here\/"},"modified":"2020-02-27T18:35:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T23:35:59","slug":"welcome-to-competencyworks-why-we-are-here","status":"publish","type":"cw_post","link":"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/cw_post\/welcome-to-competencyworks-why-we-are-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to CompetencyWorks: Why We are Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last two years, I have been on a journey to try to make right what I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.competencyworks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/susan_patrick.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-673\" title=\"susan_patrick\" src=\"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/susan_patrick-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"123\" height=\"123\" \/><\/a>think is one of the biggest policy issues driving inequity in the United States \u2013 the K-12 education system which is driven by seat-time.\u00a0 This journey is to re-design K-12 education around student learning and mastery.<\/p>\n<p>The policies around seat-time limit how and when a student can learn, allow students to move to the next grade level with huge gaps in their learning, and limit extended learning opportunities.\u00a0 Why should it matter whether a student learns in school, out of school, online, in the girl scouts or at a museum?\u00a0 What should matter is that teachers are involved in assessing students\u2019 mastery of learning at advanced levels.\u00a0 So, rather than measuring how empty the \u201cbucket\u201d of knowledge is \u2013 let\u2019s work on filling the bucket with world-class knowledge and skills to empower kids from all backgrounds for a lifetime of success.\u00a0 Competency education, not seat time, is a critical design requirement to enable next generation learning environments.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why CompetencyWorks?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When Chris Sturgis and I first met at the Grantmakers for Education Conference, it was fortuitous. At the International Association for K-12 Online Learning, our single biggest policy issue is moving away from seat-time toward competency models of learning any time, any place and any path for students.\u00a0 We are driven by a student-centered mission to give every student access to a world-class education.\u00a0 Chris\u2019 background in establishing multiple pathways to graduation lead to a similar conclusion for different reasons.\u00a0 Many of our young people have been passed on for years so they are dramatically behind in their learning as they enter high school. Many others have adult responsibilities that requires much more flexibility than the current system provides.<\/p>\n<p>Students shouldn\u2019t be allowed to have huge gaps \u2013 we must do everything in our power to bring them to high levels of learning and offer multiple pathways to become successful.\u00a0 Across the nation, states, districts, and school leadership are innovating around mastery. Together, we have found national partners with diverse agendas, missions and strategies toward education reform who will be working together on the common goals in CompetencyWorks \u2013 iNACOL, MetisNet, American Youth Policy Forum, Jobs for the Future, the National Governors Association and others, supported by the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, the Donnell-Kay Foundation and others to come.<\/p>\n<p>Please join us in moving the dialog, amplifying the good work happening on behalf of students in competency education, knowledge sharing and pushing policy and practice in the field toward a vision of equity, access and excellence through competency education.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve co-authored four papers on competency education in the last two years to update the literature in the field of K-12 competency-based education.\u00a0 Now, it is time to tackle the tough issues, learn from each other in the field, and have a place to find lessons learned from competency education innovators across the country (and world). We\u2019re blogging, sharing blogs, writing three more research papers and hosting a forum to share and learn about competency education.\u00a0 With the launch of the CompetencyWorks website and wiki, we want the world of competency education to come to life with the voices of the innovators in the field sharing promising practices, examples, and resources.\u00a0 In short, we want to spotlight the pathway to competency education and serve as concierge for the field.<\/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":[396,368],"location":[],"class_list":["post-5780","cw_post","type-cw_post","status-publish","hentry","issue-how-to-get-started","issue-issues-in-practice"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - 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