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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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Laying the Foundation for Competency Education: A Policy Guide for the Next Generation Educator Workforce
This report provides an overview of how competency-based learning can provide the skills and training necessary to develop a next generation workforce. The paper discusses the new skills that educators will need, policy shifts that will need to...
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State of the Nation: K-12 Online Learning in Canada (2010)
In classrooms across Canada, the proliferation of online resources has rapidly changed the learning environment. Building on the initial Snapshot Sate of the Nation: K-12 Online Learning in Canada report, the authors gained critical information into...
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Understanding the Implications of Online Learning for Educational Productivity
The purpose of this report is to support administrators and policymakers in becoming informed consumers of information about online learning and its potential impact on productivity. It provides foundational knowledge and a conceptual framework,...
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Wichita Public Schools’ Learning Centers
This report identifies Wichita Public Schools as a case study for analyzing disruptive innovation – or the use of computer-based learning. Launched in 1999, these Learning Centers were designed for dropout-recovery and credit-recovery purposes. By...
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Innovation Zones: Creating Policy Flexibility for Personalized Learning
This policy issue brief describes what innovation zones are, why they are important and examples of legislative language from various states. Innovation zones or districts of innovation help state policy leaders identify outdated policies and...
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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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Innovation Zones: Creating Policy Flexibility for Competency-Based Personalized Learning (updated August 2018)
This issue brief describes what innovation zones are, why they are important and highlights how the following seven states/localities have approached their innovation zones statutes and regulations: ArkansasColoradoKentuckyMinnesotaMississippiNew...
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Transforming Teaching: What University Presidents and Deans of Colleges of Education Need to Know about Modernizing the K-12 Educator Workforce
Higher education has immense power to support the transformation of K-12 teaching and learning because it incubates future educators and supplies opportunities for professional development. University presidents and deans of colleges of education...
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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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