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Leveraging Virtual and Hybrid Learning to Increase Course Access: Guidance for State Leaders
This guidance highlights a number of the considerations that states are making about their course access programs, demonstrates models states have developed based on these considerations, and provides resources to help states address critical...
Artifacts
New England Board of Education Policy Spotlight: How Selective Colleges and Universities Evaluate Proficiency-Based High School Transcripts: Insights for Students and Schools
New England Board of Education position paper on mastery-based transcripts and college admissions that confirms there is no cause for concern for students with non-traditional transcripts as long as schools provide some basic information and context...
Strategies
Advice: Communicating about Competency-Based Learning
The Foundation for Excellence in Education developed this state policy communications toolkit around competency-based education.
Artifacts
The State of Competency-Based Education Policy Map
The State of Competency-Based Education Policy Map is an interactive tool developed in partnership with KnowledgeWorks. Designed to highlight state-level innovation, this map provides a comprehensive overview of how K-12 education policies...
Artifacts
Necessary for Success: A State Policymaker’s Guide to Competency Education
Necessary for Success provides insights from state leaders on how to re-engineer policies and practices of our K-12 system. The authors introduce the main concepts behind competency-based learning, and they study important initial steps taken by...
Artifacts
Aligning K-12 State Policy with Competency Education
This CompetencyWorks brief provides an introduction to competency education with a snapshot of states’ policies regarding competency education. The report notes how states are advancing competency-based learning, and it describes eight ways that...
Artifacts
Policy Barriers to School Improvement: What's Real and What's Imagined?
States and districts have traditionally controlled the resources that go into schools and regulated the practices that governed them. Today though, school leaders who are empowered to make the decisions they think will most benefit students are...
Spotlights & Case Studies
Learner-Led Classroom Management: IgnitED Research Insight
In this installment of IgnitED Research, a series that aims to build stronger connections between learning science and instructional practice, we look at classroom management and how to empower students to co-create and drive management processes.
Spotlights & Case Studies
Today’s One Thing for Teachers: Social-Emotional Learning in a Virtual Setting
This installment of Today’s One Thing discusses how to implement social-emotional learning activities in a remote classroom setting.
Spotlights & Case Studies
Real-Time Redesign Case Study: Monterey Peninsula Unified School District
This case study provides an overview of Monterey Peninsula Unified School District's experience progressing through Real-Time Redesign.
Guides
Data Advocacy: Who Uses Data for Advocacy
To understand how best to leverage data for advocacy purposes, it is first necessary to identify key stakeholders and understand the types of data that they can access. Leaders, educators, students, families, and community members have a vested...