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Student-Centered Learning: Functional Requirements for Integrated Systems to Optimize Learning
Learn more about this research in our archived webinar on this report. This paper illustrates the technical requirements and functionalities that learning management systems need to shift toward student-centered instructional models. This...
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Promising State Policies for Personalized Learning
The passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in December 2015, which reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), ushered in a historic opportunity to rethink K-12 education across the country.3 The new law allows...
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State Strategies to Develop Teacher Capacity for Personalized, Competency-Based Learning
This issue brief shares state policy recommendations and action steps for policymakers who are supporting the redesign of educator workforce systems to enable educators to build the skills, competencies and knowledge needed to thrive in modern,...
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Promising State Policies to Advance Personalized Learning
iNACOL published the report Promising State Policies for Personalized Learning to highlight specific state examples of promising policies to support and scale personalized, competency-based learning to close equity and achievement gaps. This...
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Agency by Design: An Educator's Playbook
Here is the book you’ve been waiting for - “Agency by Design: An Educator's Playbook!” This book is a call to action, providing the tools, strategies and user friendly rubrics to guide you as you unlock the potential of your students, as they...
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An Introduction to the National Summit on K-12 Competency-Based Education
This paper provides an overview of the goals of the National Summit on K-12 Competency-Based Education, the four papers that form the basis of discussion at the Summit, and a glossary of terms used in the four papers. CompetencyWorks is hosting the...
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In Search of Efficacy: Defining the Elements of Quality in a Competency-Based Education System
This paper seeks to identify what makes up the structures of a competency-based system and launches an exploration of what we might ask or see in a competency-based district and school that would be identified as high quality. This paper explores...
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Expanding Student Access to Work-Based Learning: Federal Policy Recommendations
We know the importance of learning experiences that happen beyond the confines of a traditional classroom. But how might federal policy support such experiences to prepare young people for life after high school? That’s where work-based learning...
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Levers and Logic Models: A Framework to Guide Research and Design of High-Quality Competency-Based Education Systems
Levers and Logic Models: A Framework to Guide Research and Design of High-Quality Competency-Based Education Systems, uses logic model frameworks to convey relationships between essential levers (outcomes, drivers and mediating factors) that inform...
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Going Beyond the Traditional: Next Gen Credentials and Flexible Learning Pathways
The new world of work demands not only academic knowledge and skills but also transferable skills such as communications, creativity, and collaboration—skills that are rarely captured formally. Meeting that demand will require a new approach to the...
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In Pursuit of Equality: A Framework for Equity Strategies in Personalized, Competency-Based Education
This paper seeks to unpack the concept of equity, review key equity strategies that have been developed to serve historically underserved students, and offer an initial framework to launch discussion at the National Summit on K-12 Competency-Based...
