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 …
Deepening Project-Based Learning
Deepening Project-Based LearningDeepening Project-Based Learning: Lessons from Powerful New Research and Practice As we seek to shift the U.S. system of education toward competency-based education, project-based learning (PBL) offers a powerful strategy for greater student engagement and more authentic learning inside and outside the classroom. But does it work? And what are its implications for change at the school 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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Transitioning to Remote Learning
Transitioning to Remote LearningTransitioning 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 for …