Making Learning EngagingAgency by Design: Making Learning Engaging The global COVID-19 pandemic pulled back the curtain on the growing need for greater student agency and student engagement. As we rethink the future of education in a post-pandemic world, learner agency must be at the center of learning designs and learning models so that we can support students anytime, anyplace, and …
A Promise for Equitable Futures
A Promise for Equitable FuturesA Promise for Equitable Futures: Enabling Systems Change to Scale Educational and Economic Mobility Pathways Fewer than one in five American students follow a clear and uninterrupted path from high school through college to career. The promise of a public education is to prepare all learners to engage in, contribute to, and achieve purpose in the …
Putting Data to Work
Putting Data to WorkPutting Data to Work: Formative Evaluation and Continuous Improvement in Transformative Education Efforts In this webinar with WestEd and KnowledgeWorks, engage with researchers, practitioners, and district leaders to explore how we’re using continuous improvement as a critical component in the formative evaluation of our ongoing work with the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction. We are two …
Levers and Logic Models
Levers and Logic ModelsLevers and Logic Models: A Framework to Guide Research and Design of High-Quality K-12 Competency-Based Education Systems Competency-based education is gaining momentum and visibility nationally. To advance the field with quality and fidelity, CompetencyWorks developed a logic model defining key elements and levers of high-quality competency-based systems to accelerate research and advance the implementation of high-quality models. …
Quality and Equity by Design
Quality and Equity by DesignQuality and Equity by Design: Charting the Course for the Next Phase of Competency-Based Education This publication seeks to advance K-12 competency education along four key issues: quality, equity, meeting students where they are, and policy. K-12 education in the United States and across the world is at a critical point in its evolution, and the …
In Search of Efficacy
In Search of EfficacyIn Search of Efficacy: Defining the Elements of Quality in a Competency-Based Education System This paper seeks to identify what makes up the structures of a competency-based system and launches an exploration of what we might ask or see in a competency-based district and school that would be identified as high quality. This paper explores three questions …
Advance Personalized Learning
Advance Personalized LearningPromising State Policies Promising State Policies for Personalized Learning to highlight specific state examples of promising policies to support and scale personalized, competency-based learning to close equity and achievement gaps. This executive summary outlines the policies in that report.Learn MoreAdvance Personalized Learning Promising State Policies Promising State Policies for Personalized Learning to highlight specific state examples of promising …
Keeping Pace
Keeping PaceKeeping Pace with K-12 Digital Learning Special Keeping Pace has been tracking trends in online and blended learning policy and practice for 12 years. In this webinar, John Watson with the Evergreen Education Group and Maria Worthen, iNACOL Vice President for Federal and State Policy, presented the latest findings published in the 2015 report related to online schools, supplemental …
Competency Education
Maximizing Competency EducationMaximizing Competency Education and Blended Learning: Insights from Experts Twenty-three technical assistance providers convened to discuss the implementation of new learning models, to share knowledge and expertise, and to discuss next steps to advance the field. The convening findings informed this report, which discusses the implications of personalized learning as a main pillar of school design, structured around …