Habits of SuccessHabits of Success: Helping Students Develop Essential Skills for Learning, Work, and Life This report offers guidance for K-12 districts and schools by synthesizing the latest research and knowledge on emerging practices for: 1) developing local habits of success frameworks, 2) addressing equity and cultural considerations in implementing habits of success and lifelong learning skills, and 3) promoting …
Making Learning Engaging
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 …
Math Teacher’s Journey
Math Teacher’s JourneyA Mastery-Based Math Teacher’s Journey This case study highlights a high school math teacher’s successful journey of taking the steps needed to move away from traditional teaching methods to innovative pedagogies supporting mastery-based teaching and learning. Mastery-based learning (also called competency-based learning) is a shift away from traditional, one-size-fits-all teaching. Teachers ensure each student masters academic knowledge and …
A Strategic Reflection
A Strategic ReflectionA Strategic Reflection on the Field of Competency-Based Education Schools and districts across the United States are realizing the promise of competency-based education—transforming the culture, structure, and pedagogy of the traditional time-based system into one that is designed to help every student succeed. Watch this webinar to hear Fred Jones, Eliot Levine, and Susan Patrick of the Aurora …
Exploring Innovative School Models
Exploring Innovative School ModelsExploring Innovative School Models in the Canopy Project’s Interactive National Database Newly released data from the Canopy project provide an overview of how 200+ schools are innovating during the COVID-19 era. In this webinar, we will: Describe the Canopy Project’s crowdsourced approach to building collective knowledge on a more diverse set of innovative schools across the country. …
Developing Equity, Efficacy, and Effectiveness
Developing Equity, Efficacy, and EffectivenessDeveloping Equity, Efficacy, and Effectiveness in a Competency-Based System An interactive conversation that will ignite transformational ideas based on experiences and adaptations for our competency-based system. Participants will review a continuum of attributes: starting with equity, developing efficacy, and measuring effectiveness. Personalized learner-centered experiences that were adapted for remote learning will be included. The goal will …
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. …
Positive Youth Development Strategies
Positive Youth Development StrategiesQHow Teachers Are Incorporating Positive Youth Development Strategies in Personalized Learning Research from the learning sciences tell us that the search for identity and autonomy is a primary aspiration of all young people. Schools — and teachers in particular — are pivotal in supporting students on this journey: helping them build competencies that connect to purpose, providing …
Develop Students as Global Citizens
Develop Students as Global CitizensStrategies for Teachers to Develop Students as Global Citizens In personalized learning models across the country, teachers are providing students with real-world learning opportunities, interconnected with the community, to develop important skills and dispositions that prepare them for a lifetime of success. Lincoln-West School of Global Studies (a high school within the Cleveland Metropolitan School District) …
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