{"id":1563,"date":"2017-12-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/blog\/new-inacol-policy-issue-brief-on-rethinking-state-accountability-to-support-personalized-competency-based-learning-in-k-12-education\/"},"modified":"2022-11-04T16:54:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T20:54:47","slug":"new-inacol-policy-issue-brief-on-rethinking-state-accountability-to-support-personalized-competency-based-learning-in-k-12-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/blog\/new-inacol-policy-issue-brief-on-rethinking-state-accountability-to-support-personalized-competency-based-learning-in-k-12-education\/","title":{"rendered":"New iNACOL Policy Issue Brief on Rethinking State Accountability to Support Personalized, Competency-Based Learning in K-12 Education"},"content":{"rendered":"
What could accountability look like to better support transparency of outcomes and improvements in practice toward high-quality personalized learning and competency-based education systems?<\/span><\/p>\n iNACOL published a new policy issue brief, <\/span>Rethinking State Accountability to Support Personalized, Competency-Based Learning in K-12 Education<\/span><\/i><\/a>. The issue brief explores the opportunities state policymakers have when amending and redesigning accountability systems in the future to move from compliance to continuous improvement in K-12 education. The issue brief outlines how to:<\/span><\/p>\n Next generation accountability designs will provide transparency and help build capacity for innovative practices through personalized, student-centered, competency-based learning. <\/span><\/p>\n Education systems should reflect families\u2019 and communities\u2019 hopes for student success in school, work, life and society. <\/span>States can articulate a statewide vision for student success and align accountability systems to ensure every student has what they need to succeed. Next generation accountability systems can empower states, districts and schools with timely, relevant information and provide the capacity to analyze and continuously improve on their practice. <\/span><\/p>\n Accountability systems provide the underlying structure for school and district support and improvement. <\/span>Accountability systems for K-12 education could empower stakeholders with the information they need to help students succeed, providing the right information to the right stakeholders at the right time. <\/span><\/p>\n With the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), states gain considerably more authority and autonomy over the design of school accountability systems. ESSA provides an opportunity for states to transform accountability with models that advance equity and align to student-centered learning. This shift in responsibility creates the opportunity for states to reimagine new accountability models that align to goals of college and career readiness for all students, and to move from a culture of compliance to one of continuous improvement. <\/span><\/p>\n State leaders can begin to transform state accountability systems to better support student learning, provide greater transparency, and allow districts and schools the capacity to analyze and continuously improve on their practice. Policymakers may want to consider the following recommendations, and take advantage of the opportunities in ESSA, to move toward building student-centered learning systems in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n As states begin to consider and design next generation accountability systems that are dynamic and responsive to stakeholders, they should remember they can submit a request to the U.S. Department of Education to amend their state accountability plans at any time. <\/span><\/p>\n For more information, download the iNACOL issue brief, <\/span>Rethinking State Accountability to Support Personalized, Competency-Based Learning in K-12 Education<\/span><\/i><\/a>, <\/span><\/i>and access other issue briefs here: <\/span><\/p>\n What could accountability look like to better support transparency of outcomes and improvements in practice toward high-quality…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"issue":[385,377,388],"location":[],"class_list":["post-1563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","issue-redefine-student-success","issue-state-policy","issue-redesign-accountability-systems-for-continuous-improvement"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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