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 …
Hear It from the Next Generation
Hear It from the Next Generation!Let’s Hear It from the Next Generation! Virtual Panels with Mastery Collaborative Youth Advisors What do middle and high school students wish all adults magically knew about them? You’re invited to a conversation with Mastery Collaborative Youth Advisors, cohosted by the Mastery Collaborative (MC), CompetencyWorks, and KnowledgeWorks on April 22, 2021, from 3:30 – 5:30 PM …
Mere Engagement
Mere EngagementMere Engagement: Reflections about the Connections Between Online Learning, Student Agency, and Student Engagement School leaders mustn’t lose sight of the need for student agency and student engagement as they contend with the myriad challenges posed by COVID-19. In fact, they must reimagine what agency and engagement can look like in cases when students are learning virtually and also …
Strengthening Relationships
Strengthening RelationshipsStrengthening Relationships and Social Emotional Learning Supports to Foster Equity and Academic Success More than ever, successful schools are laser-focused on strengthening relationships with students, bolstering social-emotional learning (SEL) supports, and guiding each student’s academic growth. These are the facets of an effective primary person model—a term for the conditions and practices that enable these goals—which help to drive …
Supporting the Learner
Supporting the LearnerSupporting the Learner Throughout Their Competency-Based Journey: Examining Tech Standards Competency-based learning is informed by learner data. But what happens to competency achievement data when a learner transitions between schools, higher education, and into the workforce? A secure, unified record is needed which reflects the skills learners have mastered. Foundations, standards groups, and government agencies have joined forces …
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 …
Science of Motivation
Science of MotivationScience of Motivation: 5 Barriers to Student Motivation and How to Fix Them In this hands-on workshop, we’ll walk through several barriers to motivation and identify strategies to help students and adults engage, persist, and reach mastery. We’ll pay particular attention to how identity, including race and socioeconomic status, impacts motivation, as well as the impact of the …
Communication Strategies for Education Leaders
Communication Strategies for Education LeadersCommunication Strategies for Education Leaders Shifting Toward Competency-Based, Personalized Learning View this archived webinar to learn ways to communicate with stakeholders about shifting toward a competency-based and personalized system. Understand emerging national trends from a recent survey and landscape analysis on the best ways to communicate about competency-based and personalized learning, and cater these promising practices …
Personalized Learning
Personalized LearningWhat’s Possible with Personalized Learning? An Overview of Personalized Learning for Schools, Families & Communities This paper is designed to inform schools, families and communities about the potential of personalized learning. This report describes why personalized learning matters and shows what personalized learning looks like in schools for teachers and for students. Through case studies, this paper illustrates what …