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Learner-Centered Tip of the Week: Goal Setting
posted on March 11, 2016Breaking out of the Boxes at Building 21
posted on March 9, 2016What We Can Learn from Chugach School District
posted on March 8, 2016Dear Future Principal: Here is How You Can Positively Impact Student Learning
posted on March 7, 2016Henry County Schools: Ensuring Success for Each Student
posted on February 24, 2016Introductory Webinar on Competency-Based Education, April 20th
posted on February 22, 2016Maine: At the Forefront of Proficiency-Based Learning
posted on February 19, 2016Lake County Schools: Designing a Strategy to Bring Personalized Learning to Scale
posted on February 15, 20163 Smart State Approaches to Competency-Based Education
posted on February 10, 2016Red Bank Elementary: Five Big Takeaways
posted on February 2, 2016New! CompetencyWorks is hosting a webinar on Introduction to Competency Education on April 20 3-4 pm ET. Speakers are Dr. Kristen Brittingham, Charleston County School District, South Carolina; Sydney Schaef from Building 21(currently at reDesign); Virgel Hammond, KnowledgeWorks; Susan Patrick, iNACOL; and, Chris Sturgis. Register here.
New! NGLC Twitter Chat on Competency-Based Education, April 7th at 7 pm ET.
New! Center for Collaborative Education‘s is hosting webinar on Assessing Habits, Skills, and Dispositions for Student Learning, April 13, 2016, 3:30 – 4:30 pm. Register here.
Design and Professional Development Opportunities
New England Secondary School Consortium Conference is March 17 and 18. If you can’t be there, join the live stream. Register here.
Boston Day and Evening Academy’s REAL Institute is July 11-14. Register here.
Schools on the Pathway for Personal Learning, June 24-26, 2015, Spearfish, SD with Bea McGarvey and Chuck Schwahn.
Quality Performance Assessment (QPA) Summer Institute is an opportunity for educators to expand their assessment literacy and build the capacity to implement performance tasks in the classroom. The Institute will be held on July 18-21, 2016 in Boston, MA. Learn more at the online info session on March 2.
Sanborn Regional School District will hold two design studios this summer. 1) An Introduction to PACE Design Studio July 18-19, 2016. 2) Competency Education Design Studio July 20-22, 2016. For more information email sanborndesign (at) sau17.org
iNACOL Symposium is the best place to meet up with competency-based innovators from across the nation. October 25-28th (and look for pre-conference workshops as well) in San Antonio.
Site Visits
Lindsay Unified School District has one more site visit day left this school year on Friday, May 20, 2016. Register here.
Check out the Wiki for previous webinars:
An Introduction to Competency-Based Education
An International Study on Competency Education: Postcards from Abroad
Understanding Grading in Competency-based Schools
A K-12 Policy Framework for Competency Education
Aligning Competencies with the Common Core for Off-Track Youth,
Creating Systems of Assessments
Student Experience: Pacing and Personalization
Spanning the Grades: A Look At Elementary, Middle School And High School Competency-Based Models
Re-Engineering Information Technology: Design Considerations for Competency Education
The Learning Edge: Supporting Student Success in a Competency-Based Learning Environment
Roadmap for Mastery Learning, Mastery Learning Design Guides, and Resource Bank from reDesign.
Competency-based Pathways Sample School Report Card by Achieve. Also see Infographic on Competency-Based Pathways; Communications Toolkit; The Role of Learning Progressions in Competency-Based Pathways and Building a Strong Relationship between Competency-Based Pathways and Career Technical Education
Educator Competencies for Personalized, Learner-Centered Teaching; Students at the Center Hub; Equity in Competency Education: Realizing the Potential, Overcoming the Obstacles; and, The Past and the Promise: Today’s Competency-based Education Movement by Jobs for the Future.
Communications Toolkit and Model Legislation by Foundation for Excellent Education
Laying the Foundation for Competency Education: A Policy Guide for the Next Generation Educator Workforce by iNACOL and KnowledgeWorks Foundation
New Hampshire’s Story of Transformation
Mean What You Say: Defining and Integrating Personalized, Blended, and Competency Education, published by iNACOL
American Youth Policy Forum’s The Role of Expanded Learning in Competency-based Education Systems
An Emerging Federal Role for Competency Education by KnowledgeWorks
Necessary for Success: Building Mastery of World-Class Skills – A State Policymakers Guide to Competency Education, a CompetencyWorks Issue Brief
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