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Student Agency: Creating An Integrated and Authentic K-12 Approach
By: Kate Bean. What does authentic student agency look like and how can we move beyond the surface to create a student-driven learning experience for elementary students as well as high schoolers preparing for college and career?
How Assessing Growth Informs Individualized Instruction
By: Kathy Dyer. While there are assessment measures that provide educators with valuable data representing the growth of the whole student, for many schools and districts it calls for a thorough review of their current assessment system.
Superintendents Reflect on their Move Beyond Test Scores
By: Todd Brekhus. To truly understand and support their students’ literacy, these two superintendents have adopted an innovative method they call “measuring reading with reading." Learn more about their strategies here.
Pacing in Competency-Based Learning
Learning isn't a race--a competency-based environment should allow students to progress in each area of student learning at a pace that’s just right through a mixture of individual and group work.
6 Ways States Can Redefine Student Success and Transform Education Under ESSA
By: Dale Frost and Maria Worthen. iNACOL's "Meeting The Every Student Succeeds Act’s Promise: State Policy to Support Personalized Learning" report provides specific recommendations on how state policymakers can take advantage of ESSA opportunities.
Competency-Based Education Can Better Inform Parents, Students & Teachers
By: Karla Phillips and Carri Schneider. Competency-based systems create a more transparent, complete, and accurate picture of student achievement than the traditional time-based and cohort-based system.
Data is Great, but Action is Key
By: Dr. James E. McCoy. As a superintendent, I need to empower principals and teachers with technology to successfully execute our educational development plan while meeting all standards. Here is how my district plans to do both this school year.
10 Ways Educators Can Use SEL Measurement and Assessment for Student Success
By: Jonathan E. Martin. Here are ten ways that schools or districts can use the data and reports they receive from social emotional learning assessments to assist with students' future success.
Social and Emotional Learning and Assessment: The Demand is Clear
By: Jonathan Martin. Noncognitive skill assessment is a necessary, even critical component, of strengthening social and emotional learning in schools.
The Role of Performance Monitoring in Competency-Based Education
By: Jason Ellingson. Competency-based learning may resolve some of the concerns with current approaches to performance monitoring being publicly displayed.