Supporting the Learner Supporting 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 …
A Promise for Equitable Futures
A Promise for Equitable Futures A 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 …
Strengthening Local Assessment Systems
Strengthening Local Assessment Systems Strengthening 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. …
Developing Equity, Efficacy, and Effectiveness
Developing Equity, Efficacy, and Effectiveness Developing 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 …
Putting Data to Work
Putting Data to Work Putting 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 …
Science of Motivation
Science of Motivation Science 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 …
Transitioning to Remote Learning
Transitioning to Remote Learning Transitioning to Remote Learning: Free Online Professional Learning Opportunities for Teachers The COVID-19 pandemic has forced schools to turn to remote options to educate students. This shift has created major challenges for many who have spent little to no time teaching in an anytime, anywhere modality. This session will dive into six free, two-hour online courses …