{"id":16979,"date":"2022-07-28T18:41:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T22:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/?post_type=newsletter_archive&p=16979"},"modified":"2023-04-19T18:45:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T22:45:09","slug":"competencyworks-july-2022","status":"publish","type":"newsletter_archive","link":"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/newsletter_archive\/competencyworks-july-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Competency<\/em>Works | July 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Happy Summer! The Aurora Institute team hopes you are finding time to relax and renew your commitment to support transformation toward personalized, competency-based K-12 schools and systems. Here\u2019s a recap of recent thought leadership and practical lessons from and for the field.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Newly Released: Aurora Institute’s 2022 Federal Policy Priorities<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n
The Aurora Institute\u2019s Center for Policy released the organization\u2019s annual Federal Policy Priorities \u2013 aimed at reshaping our public education system to be more personalized, competency-based, and equitable. Federal policymakers interested in driving innovation, transformation, and equity can look to these nine recommendations to learn and chart a future-focused path forward.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Celebrating Readiness for the Next Challenge: Gateway at the Parker School<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n
Promotion by portfolio and the gateway process at the Parker Charter Essential School in Devens, MA illustrates competency-based education in action from clear, common expectations, to meaningful assessment and agency. Join CompetencyWorks Program Director Laurie Gagnon, in her first site visit captured in this post.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Educator-Led Competency-Based Education Research and Practice<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\nIn a four-part series, Dr. Tommy Wolfe<\/b>, a high school science teacher at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois and an Adjunct Professor acting as the Competency-Based Lead for DePaul University\u2019s Office of Innovative Professional Learning in Chicago, shares his research on and practice of competency-based education, including how individual teachers and departments can introduce CBE practice even when their school hasn’t transitioned to CBE.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1. Competencies Help Bridge the Gap Between Traditional and Project-Based Learning<\/a>, the first of two posts based on Wolfe\u2019s dissertation research, describes how teachers using competencies engaged with content in new, thoughtful ways that provided structure for authentic project-based learning.<\/p>\n

2. How Competencies Influence Teacher Practice<\/a> shares findings that using competencies instead of traditional standards helped teachers hone practice, teach skills and enduring ideas in addition to academic knowledge, take a more facilitative approach to teaching, and differentiate learning for students.<\/p>\n

3. Scaffolds for Student Agency<\/a> provides resources from Wolfe\u2019s own adoption of practical scaffolds in the way he uses unit guides, performance task guides, exemplars, and skill cards. Learn how he supports the development of student agency and his own competency-based teaching practices in his high-school science classroom.<\/p>\n

4. Teacher Insights on Developing Competency-Based Practices in the Classroom<\/a>\u00a0is the last post in the series. Wolfe shares how he has adopted competency-based practices, such as piloting 1-2-3-4 proficiency scales, supporting flexible pacing, and building units around authentic contexts.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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About Competency<\/i>Works<\/h1>\n

Competency<\/i>Works is an initiative that provides information and knowledge about competency-based education in the K-12 education system. Drawing on lessons learned by innovators and early adopters, Competency<\/i>Works is an online resource for sharing knowledge, original research and policy advances, and a variety of field perspectives. Competency<\/i>Works provides an informative blog with practitioner knowledge on key topics and papers on emerging issues, with resources curated from across the field of K-12 competency-based education.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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