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Moving Toward Mastery: Growing, Developing and Sustaining Educators for Competency-Based Education
This publication re-envisions professional practice, learning and development for educators in competency-based education. As school districts transition to new, more powerful student-centered learning models, it’s critical that educators leading...
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Modernizing the Teaching Workforce for Learner-Centered, Competency-Based, Equity-Oriented Education: State Policy Recommendations
This issue brief highlights state policy opportunities to create a shared vision to modernize professional learning for educators in a K-12, competency-based education system. Educators will be prepared for a future-focused profession that better...
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Advice: Communicating about Competency-Based Learning
The Foundation for Excellence in Education developed this state policy communications toolkit around competency-based education.
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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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Quality and Equity by Design: Charting the Course for the Next Phase of Competency-Based Education
This publication seeks to advance K-12 competency education along four key issues: quality, equity, meeting students where they are, and policy. K-12 education in the United States and across the world is at a critical point in its evolution, and...
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Transitioning to Competency-Based Learning at Trailblazer
Trailblazer slowly and strategically shifts to competency-based learning through ongoing professional development and defining scoring systems.
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Why Trailblazer Decided to Transition to Competency-Based Learning
The principal of Trailblazer discusses the rationale and benefits behind competency-based learning.
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Developing a Modern Teacher Workforce: Federal Policy Recommendations for Professional Learning and Supporting Future-Focused, Competency-Based Education Systems
This issue brief highlights federal policy opportunities to improve and modernize professional learning and development for educators for competency-based education systems. Three policy recommendations are identified: diversifying pathways into the...
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Parent Example: Competency-Based Learning at Trailblazer
Mrs. Vasquez, a teacher and a parent at Trailblazer, discusses the benefits of competency-based learning for parents of students.
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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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Single-Point Rubrics at Trailblazer
Teachers designed and utilize single-point rubrics to assess mastery and give ongoing feedback to students.
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