{"id":1110,"date":"2019-11-14T14:43:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T19:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/issues\/federal-policy\/design-for-educational-equity\/"},"modified":"2023-03-12T20:58:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T00:58:39","slug":"design-for-educational-equity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/federal-policy\/design-for-educational-equity\/","title":{"rendered":"Design for Educational Equity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_section full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1574377504784{padding-top: 80px !important;padding-bottom: 80px !important;background-color: #3119a8 !important;}&#8221; el_class=&#8221;bg-gradient text-white bg-gradient&#8211;branded&#8221;][vc_row el_class=&#8221;reveal&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; offset=&#8221;vc_col-lg-7&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1576590715290{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Education innovations must be for equity and designed to create an education system that is effective for every learner, not just for some. There is growing recognition that despite dramatic improvements in education over the last century, the one-size-fits-all, time-based system simply does not work as well as needed. High-quality, competency-based education starts with a deep commitment to equity by leadership and a fundamental belief that all students can and should learn and achieve at high levels.<\/p>\n<p>Competency-based education is being implemented at deeper levels in more schools every year. It is a major shift in school culture, structures, and pedagogy focused on ensuring that all students succeed and addressing the fundamental shortcomings of the traditional model. To ensure that all students are consistently held to high expectations, policy leaders have to intentionally act to provide equitable resources, serve historically underserved students, identify bias, and challenge patterns of institutional racism and classism. Enhancing diversity and inclusion within the educator workforce will help personalized, competency-based education systems address these issues.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; offset=&#8221;vc_col-lg-offset-1 vc_col-lg-3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<strong>Recommendations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Policymakers can support technical assistance for strategies, practices and professional development to advance DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) by directing funds to DEI initiatives and prioritizing equity.<\/li>\n<li>Policymakers\u00a0 should encourage state education agencies and local education agencies to include multiple measures of academic proficiency, progress and growth in their accountability systems.<\/li>\n<li>Policymakers should encourage states to disaggregate data across multiple measures of success to identify and illuminate disparities in outcomes among peer groups and target resources to provide adequate supports for continuous improvement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_section][vc_section full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1570576107005{padding-top: 60px !important;padding-bottom: 60px !important;background-color: #f6f6f6 !important;}&#8221;][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"split-divider\">Related COntent<\/h6>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<div class=\"listing--slider\"><div class=\"list-item\"><p class=\"list-item__type post-type-label\">Report<\/p><p class=\"list-item__date\">October 19, 2021<\/p>    <h4 class=\"list-item__title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/resource\/aurora-institutes-federal-policy-priorities\/\">Aurora Institute\u2019s Federal Policy Priorities: Charting a New Path for America\u2019s Learners<\/a><\/h4><p class=\"list-item__authors\">Fred Jones, Alexis Chambers, Susan Patrick<\/p><\/div><div class=\"list-item\"><p class=\"list-item__type post-type-label\">Report<\/p><p class=\"list-item__date\">April 3, 2018<\/p>    <h4 class=\"list-item__title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/resource\/designing-equity-leveraging-competency-based-education-ensure-students-succeed\/\">Designing for Equity: Leveraging Competency-Based Education to Ensure All Students Succeed<\/a><\/h4><p class=\"list-item__authors\">Chris Sturgis, Katherine Casey<\/p><\/div><div class=\"list-item\"><p class=\"list-item__type post-type-label\">Report<\/p><p class=\"list-item__date\">October 3, 2017<\/p>    <h4 class=\"list-item__title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/resource\/quality-equity-design-charting-course-next-phase-competency-based-education\/\">Quality and Equity by Design: Charting the Course for the Next Phase of Competency-Based Education<\/a><\/h4><p class=\"list-item__authors\">Susan Patrick, Chris Sturgis, Nina Lopez<\/p><\/div><div class=\"list-item\"><p class=\"list-item__type post-type-label\">Issue Brief<\/p><p class=\"list-item__date\">March 1, 2019<\/p>    <h4 class=\"list-item__title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/resource\/developing-a-modern-teacher-workforce-federal-policy-recommendations-for-professional-learning-and-supporting-future-focused-competency-based-education-systems\/\">Developing a Modern Teacher Workforce: Federal Policy Recommendations for Professional Learning and Supporting Future-Focused, Competency-Based Education Systems<\/a><\/h4><p class=\"list-item__authors\">Maria Worthen, Katherine Casey<\/p><\/div><div class=\"list-item\"><p class=\"list-item__type post-type-label\">Report<\/p><p class=\"list-item__date\">May 1, 2018<\/p>    <h4 class=\"list-item__title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/resource\/levers-and-logic-models-a-framework-to-guide-research-and-design-of-high-quality-competency-based-education-systems\/\">Levers and Logic Models: A Framework to Guide Research and Design of High-Quality Competency-Based Education Systems<\/a><\/h4><p 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