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Habits of Success

In 2021, Equity in Learning, Getting Started, Lessons Learned, Professional Learning, Report, Rethinking Instruction, Student Agency, Training by wpprd999admin

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 …

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Making Learning Engaging

In 2021, Community Engagement, Equity in Learning, Getting Started, Lessons Learned, Quality in Learning, Report, Rethinking Instruction, Student Agency, Training by wpprd999admin

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 …

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Math Teacher’s Journey

In 2021, Getting Started, Lessons Learned, Professional Learning, Report, Rethinking Instruction, Student Agency, Training by wpprd999admin

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 …

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Mere Engagement

In 2021, Community Engagement, Equity in Learning, Report, Rethinking Instruction, Student Agency, Training by wpprd999admin

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 …

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A Promise for Equitable Futures

In 2020, Community Engagement, Equity in Learning, Professional Learning, Quality in Learning, Report, Rethinking Instruction, Student Agency, Training by wpprd999admin

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 …

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Strengthening Local Assessment Systems

In 2020, Professional Learning, Report, Training by wpprd999admin

Strengthening Local Assessment SystemsStrengthening Local Assessment Systems for Personalized, Proficiency-Based Education: Strategies and Tools for Professional Learning This report describes Vermont’s convenings to support schools, districts, and other education organizations seeking to create high-quality local comprehensive systems of assessments. It can serve as a resource for schools, districts, and states that are working toward improving their own assessment systems. Readers …

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Quality Principles

In 2018, Equity in Learning, Getting Started, Lead Change & Innovation, Report, Training by wpprd999admin

Quality PrinciplesQuality Principles for Competency-Based Education This book, developed with input involving practitioners as part of the National Summit on K-12 Competency-Based Education, offers 16 Quality Design Principles to guide the development of competency-based learning with the goal of creating a system in which every student succeeds. While producing high-quality schools certainly requires attention to the structure, policy and operations, …

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Landscape Scan of Personalized Learning

In 2018, Lead Change & Innovation, Report, Rethinking Instruction, Training by wpprd999admin

Landscape Scan of Personalized LearningA National Landscape Scan of Personalized Learning in K-12 Education in the United States This publication provides findings from a national survey of teachers and students to underscore how, and to what extent, core elements of personalized learning are taking hold in K-12 schools and districts across the United States. iNACOL partnered with the Center on Reinventing …

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Designing for Equity

In 2018, Equity in Learning, Report, Training by wpprd999admin

Designing for EquityDesigning for Equity: Leveraging Competency-Based Education to Ensure All Students Succeed This publication offers equity strategies for personalized, competency-based education to ensure a more equitable K-12 education system. Districts and schools can use the equity principles within this report to develop an equity agenda within their personalized, competency-based systems. Competency-based education systems, designed to ensure all students achieve …

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Meeting Students Where They Are

In 2018, Report, Rethinking Instruction, Training by wpprd999admin

Meeting Students Where They AreMeeting Students Where They Are Meeting Students Where They Are, written by Antonia Rudenstine, Sydney Schaef, Dixie Bacallao and Sarah Hakani of reDesign, provides school and district leaders with an in-depth exploration of the relational, pedagogical and structural dimensions of meeting students where they are in K-12 competency-based education systems. Competency-based education models, designed to ensure …