Craft Category: Artifacts

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the promising practices and trends in personalized learning and competency-based education for English language learner (ELL) students. This paper shares case studies and examples from schools and programs that are currently creating personalized, competency-based learning environments for ELL students.

This paper is designed for practitioners, including educators and education leaders, who want to advance next generation learning models to reach every student, and examine promising practices and considerations on designing ideal learning environments for ELL success.

The case studies in this paper represent promising practices in the field using personalized, competency-based learning specifically for ELL students. Case studies in the report include:

• International High Schools
• Distinctive Schools
• UCLA Project ExcEL Schools
• Lindsay Unified School District
• Westminster Public Schools
• Cesar Chavez Multicultural Academic Center

This paper, written by a team from reDesign, provides school and district leaders with an in-depth exploration of the relational, pedagogical, and structural dimensions of meeting students where they are in personalized, competency-based systems of education. It is organized around three driving questions:

1. How do we know where students are?

2. What do we do, once we know?

3. Which strategies help us navigate systemic constraints?

This draft paper was prepared in advance of the National Summit on K-12 Competency-Based Education and will be revised based on attendees’ input. CompetencyWorks is hosting the Summit in Denver, Colorado on June 21-23, 2017. The Summit is invitation-only and will convene 100 leading innovators to move the field of competency-based education through the next generation of ideas and actionable outcomes, with a specific focus on equity and diversity. The Summit will tackle 6 issues: equity, policy, quality, meeting kids where they are, identifying emerging issues and revising the working definition of competency education.

Review the other draft Summit papers that explore key issues:

• An Introduction to the National Summit on K-12 Competency-Based Education
• In Pursuit of Equality: A Framework for Equity Strategies in Personalized, Competency-Based Education
• In Search of Efficacy: Defining the Elements of Quality in a Competency-Based Education System
• Fit for Purpose: Taking the Long View on Systems Change and Policy to Support Competency Education

This paper provides an overview of the goals of the National Summit on K-12 Competency-Based Education, the four papers that form the basis of discussion at the Summit, and a glossary of terms used in the four papers.

CompetencyWorks is hosting the National Summit on K-12 Competency-Based Education in Denver, Colorado on June 21-23, 2017. The Summit is invitation-only and will convene 100 leading innovators and experts to move the field of competency-based education through the next generation of ideas and actionable outcomes, with a with a strong focus on equity.

Review the National CBE Summit papers that explore key issues:

• In Pursuit of Equality: A Framework for Equity Strategies in Personalized, Competency-Based Education
• Meeting Students Where They Are
• Fit for Purpose: Taking the Long View on Systems Change and Policy to Support Competency Education
• In Search of Efficacy: Defining the Elements of Quality in a Competency-Based Education System

The purpose of this paper is to explore and reflect on the ideas that state policy needs to address in the long term to support a transformation to competency-based education systems designed to ensure equity so all students can be truly ready for success. We explore threshold concepts (“core concepts, that once understood, are needed to transform a given subject”) of certifying learning; assessment literacy; pedagogical innovations based on learning sciences; and meeting kids where they are, as part of a long game strategy.

This draft paper was prepared in advance of the National Summit on K-12 Competency-Based Education and will be revised based on attendees’ input. CompetencyWorks is hosting the Summit in Denver, Colorado on June 21-23, 2017. The Summit is invitation-only and will convene 100 leading innovators to move the field of competency-based education through the next generation of ideas and actionable outcomes, with a specific focus on equity and diversity. The Summit will tackle 6 issues: equity, policy, quality, meeting kids where they are, identifying emerging issues and revising the working definition of competency education.

Review the other draft Summit papers that explore key issues:

• An Introduction to the National Summit on K-12 Competency-Based Education
• In Pursuit of Equality: A Framework for Equity Strategies in Personalized, Competency-Based Education
• Meeting Students Where They Are
• In Search of Efficacy: Defining the Elements of Quality in a Competency-Based Education System

This paper seeks to identify what makes up the structures of a competency-based system and launches an exploration of what we might ask or see in a competency-based district and school that would be identified as high quality. This paper explores three questions related to defining what high quality means in a competency-based district or school:

1. What are the common elements of the structure in competency-based schools?

2. What are the features one might expect to see in a high quality competency-based school?

3. What are the approaches that can be used to promote quality in a competency-based system?

This draft paper was prepared in advance of the National Summit on K-12 Competency-Based Education and will be revised based on attendees’ input. CompetencyWorks is hosting the Summit in Denver, Colorado on June 21-23, 2017. The Summit is invitation-only and will convene 100 leading innovators to move the field of competency-based education through the next generation of ideas and actionable outcomes, with a specific focus on equity and diversity. The Summit will tackle 6 issues: equity, policy, quality, meeting kids where they are, identifying emerging issues and revising the working definition of competency education.

Review the other draft Summit papers that explore key issues:

• An Introduction to the National Summit on K-12 Competency-Based Education
• In Pursuit of Equality: A Framework for Equity Strategies in Personalized, Competency-Based Education
• Meeting Students Where They Are
• Fit for Purpose: Taking the Long View on Systems Change and Policy to Support Competency Education

This paper seeks to unpack the concept of equity, review key equity strategies that have been developed to serve historically underserved students, and offer an initial framework to launch discussion at the National Summit on K-12 Competency-Based Education.

In this paper, three important concepts are introduced:

1. A definition of educational equity to guide the field’s conversations.

2. A set of equity strategies that every district and school should fully integrate into instructional capacity.

3. A framework that includes a set of guiding principles for ensuring that competency-based education is fully designed to support equity strategies and ensure all students are growing and progressing.

This draft paper was prepared in advance of the National Summit on K-12 Competency-Based Education and will be revised based on attendees’ input. CompetencyWorks is hosting the Summit in Denver, Colorado on June 21-23, 2017. The Summit is invitation-only and will convene 100 leading innovators to move the field of competency-based education through the next generation of ideas and actionable outcomes, with a specific focus on equity and diversity. The Summit will tackle 6 issues: equity, policy, quality, meeting kids where they are, identifying emerging issues and revising the working definition of competency education.

Review the National CBE Summit papers that explore key issues:

• An Introduction to the National Summit on K-12 Competency-Based Education
• Meeting Students Where They Are
• In Search of Efficacy: Defining the Elements of Quality in a Competency-Based Education System
• Fit for Purpose: Taking the Long View on Systems Change and Policy to Support Competency Education

This case study illustrates the impact of the Infinity Learning Maps on Principals.

This case study illustrates the impact of the Infinity Learning Maps on teachers.

This case study illustrates the impact of the Infinity Learning Maps on Students.