Future of Learning

Five Mega Trends Reshaping Global Learning

[…] University acquired youth badging platform LRNG to extend access and create new pathways to credentials, degrees, and opportunity. Similarly, a growing number of teachers are benefiting from personalized and competency-based learning organized as a series of microcredentials. Teachers gain the ability to choose (or build) what they wish to learn and how they demonstrate their learning. Hundreds of […]

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Future of Learning

Trends Shaping Education in 2022

[…] by actual employers, all while receiving high school and college credit.” Team Tools and Staffing After a hundred years of teaching as an individual practice, personalized and competency-based learning has been creating the need to work in teams. Next Education Workforce at ASU Fulton Teachers College has been advancing team-based preparation and staffing in Arizona schools […]

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Competency-Based Education

Amplifying Student Voice to Design the Vision for Learning

The iterative process of launching a microschool is challenging, but continuously engaging student voice in the process can elevate student learning and create shared ownership in a vision for learning.

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Personalized Learning

Supporting Statewide Change Through New Models For Remote Education

By: Tom Vander Ark & Devin Vodicka. During this pandemic, learning is taking new forms and it's important to seize the moment to introduce entirely new models for learning that are capable of achieving equitable outcomes.

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Competency-Based Education

Surviving the Extremes at the WPS Summit

Armed with swag and ready to learn all about competency-based systems, attendees from across the country poured into the Marriott Westminster for the Westminster Public Schools (WPS) Summit. The room buzzed with anticipation. The WPS Summit is a three-day conference focused on competency-based education. Located in Denver and in its third year, the summit […]

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Competency-Based Education

Why 20 Missouri School Districts Are Seeking New ‘Innovation Waivers’ to Rethink the Way They Test Students

[…] of it. Fulton said the Success-Ready Students Network will be working on a federal waiver later this year. Fulton said the state’s innovation waivers are key to competency-based learning, which allows students to move through education at their own pace as they demonstrate a full understanding of the material. “The whole proposal is designed to […]

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Competency-Based Education

Framing and Designing the HOW

Rebecca Midles carves the designing path to change for a learning organization.

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Future of Learning

Getting Clearer: Schooling Loss, Not Learning Loss

By: Kelly Niccolls & Rebecca Midles. Students have experienced school loss and peer interaction loss, not learning loss. Kelly and Rebecca outline how educators can help students continue forward in their learning journey.

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