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Executive Summary: Current to Future State-Issues and Action Steps for State Policy to Support Personalized, Competency-Based Learning

In January 2018, iNACOL published Current to Future State: Issues and Action Steps for State Policy to Support Personalized, Competency-Based Learning to provide state policymakers with a set of action steps to drive transformation of education systems for the long-term. These policy actions are designed to ensure that every student graduates with the knowledge, abilities and dispositions necessary to achieve success, to contribute to their communities and to advance society.

This executive summary includes the graphic below that draws attention to the following six issues to tackle from the report:

Redefining student success,
Creating meaning qualifications,
Constructing balanced systems of assessments,
Redesigning accountability for continuous improvement,
Developing educator capacity for next-generation learning, and
Building capacity to lead change.

September 18, 2018

Secondary School Flexible Scheduling Structures for Personalized Pathways

An infographic highlighting various ways to use the school schedule flexibly to create more opportunities for personalized learning.

September 12, 2018

Unlocking Time’s strategy on access to college classes

There are three primary designs for providing access to community college for high school students: dual enrollment, concurrent enrollment, and early college.

September 11, 2018

Unlocking Time’s strategy on implementing a flex time period

Flex time periods offer students some degree of flexibility to follow their own interests and manage their own learning time, providing as much flexibility as the school structure and culture can support.

September 11, 2018

Unlocking Time: School Time Assessment

Unlocking Time is a national project that empowers K12 school leaders to adopt new time strategies that fuel student-centered learning. The project will gain new insights on how U.S. schools structure their time, provide a rich set of resources to help K12 school leaders align time and resources with their values, and provision administrators from eligible high-need schools with new master scheduling tools and services to implement new time-based strategies.

September 7, 2018

How to Scale College in High School

A state policy guide for implementing dual enrollment and early college designs under the Every Student Succeeds Act. Provided by College in High School Alliance.

September 7, 2018

Essential Elements for Early College Expansion

Lessons from a Federal Investing in Innovation Grant, which brought early college to an additional 30,000 students in three districts over five years.

September 7, 2018

Why Create A Flex Block?

Schools around the country have successfully personalized their students’ learning by adding a flex block to their schedule. In what specific ways have students benefited? This video will explore five reasons – from real schools and educators – why you should consider adding a flex block to your schedule.

September 7, 2018

How Can You Create A Flex Block?

Adding a flexible block of time to your school schedule can help personalize learning for your students. But with an already busy schedule, how can you add another block of time? Won’t students be missing important class time? What does a ‘flex block’ look like in different schools?

September 7, 2018

Design Tech High’s approach to intersession (2:42)

At Design Tech High, students take elective classes four times a year for two weeks at a time. (Note: The portion of the video referencing intersession begins at the 2:42 timestamp.)

September 5, 2018

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