Reimagining Education, Together
Personalized, competency-based learning has the power to make learning meaningful and relevant. Not only for students, but also for educators and leaders.
Beyond the Horizon
Read recommendations for moving from our current systems of assessment and accountability toward equitable, learner-centered school quality systems.
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Unleashing
the Potential
of Student Voice
Pave the path toward a brighter future for education by exploring practical strategies for authentic engagement.
What is a competency?
Find answers and learn how you can get started designing them. Check out our informative video series.
Your Partners in Education Transformation
Helpful Tools
Map a Path to
the Future of Learning
Bring future possibilities into your strategic plans and systems change efforts, using the 12 activities in this toolkit.
State Policymakers Guide: Student-Centered Systems
Identify the steps to support schools and districts in implementing personalized, competency-based learning.
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Understand conditions for sustainable systems change and advancing transformation to personalized, competency-based learning.
Insights from the Field
School systems in Hawai’i and Wisconsin meet to learn from each other. How do their shared values contribute to advancing student-centered learning?
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Resources
A KnowledgeWorks and WestEd report investigates whether state measurements on school performance accurately reflect school quality.
- Published: November 28, 2023
- Topics: Assessment and Accountability, Education Equity
Improvements to the IADA give states a chance to design improved student-centered assessment systems.
- Published: November 21, 2023
- Topics: State and Federal Policy, Student-centered Learning

Here are three practices teachers can implement in the classroom to help make learning more student-centered.
- Published: November 7, 2023
- Topics: Student-centered Learning, Systems Change

Testimonial
I’ve done some pretty ambitious collaborations before, but to work this closely with eight other people, online, to go from a blank page to a continuum of defensible competencies? Thanks to the Utah State Board of Education and KnowledgeWorks for laying the groundwork and providing the structure and supports to help us achieve this successful outcome.