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Beyond the 4Cs: Empowering Youth in the 21st-Century
By: Connie Liu. Connie discusses the 4C’s framework, the skills that are most important for student success, and are principal components of becoming a 21st-century learner.
Meet the Culture Hackers: Microcredentials Aren’t Just for Students
By: Robert Thornton. Harmony Public Schools takes a competency-based approach to professional learning by awarding microcredentials to reinforce the skill-sets they believe are critical to success across a variety of roles within their system.
Educating All Learners Alliance Launches Flagship Site, Shares Personas Educators Can Use to Understand Students’ Lived Experience During COVID-19
Vulnerable learners will need more from our school communities this year, whether we’re operating in fully remote, hybrid, or in-person instructional environments.
Getting Clearer: Student Access
There are key inequities in student access that need to be addressed across the country to support improvement in learning experiences and outcomes.
Why SEL is More Important Than Ever: Meeting SEL Needs Virtually
Rachelle Dene Poth shares ideas for promoting SEL in distance learning.
Learning Coach Academy: Supporting the Role of Parents or Guardians in Remote Learning
By: Heather Hiebsch and Cheryl Fenlason. Heather and Cheryl share hybrid, personalized, and blended learning tips to develop and support Learning Coaches to help students adapt - and even thrive - in this uncertain educational landscape.
How Schools Can Help Cultivate Learner Identity and Agency
The Brooklyn Laboratory Charter Schools team shares how educators can cultivate opportunities to develop a strong sense of identity and agency.
Mastery Learning in Action
Mastery Learning in Action, a paper recently published by the Mastery Transcript Consortium, offers a comparative structure based on visits and interview from five of its member schools.
19 Year Old Earns Bachelors Degree
Learn how 19-year-old Tiana Brown just graduated from college debt-free through her innovative high school early college program.
Shining the Competency Education Light on Education in the Time of COVID-19
COVID-19 has created the conditions for a radical transformation in our schools. Chris discusses how personalized, mastery-based, competency, and proficiency-based approaches help teachers and schools.