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Breaking Down Silos: Why Skills-based Education Is Gaining Momentum

Skills-based education is gaining traction as states, employers and educators work to replace time-based learning with competency-driven systems.

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4 Strategies for Leading Change with Authenticity

Discover why authentic leadership is critical for sustainable transformational change in education. Get four strategies to help lead change.

Deion A. Jordan
Director of Teaching and Learning

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Your Favorite Resources of 2025

Your top 10 resources from 2025 reveal interest in creating bold visions to make way for personalized, competency-based learning.

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Ready to rally parents around personalized learning? Here’s how.

10 ideas to build public will among parents and guardians around personalized, competency-based learning

Shelby Taylor
Director of Marketing and Communications

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EngageMN: A New Kind of Movement for Education in Minnesota

A new bill in Minnesota supports real-world learning for credits. Here’s how an education advocacy group and a former student in particular supported it.

Shelby Taylor
Director of Marketing and Communications

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Curriculum That Connects: 5 Essentials for Student-centered Learning

When it comes to curriculum in personalized, competency-based learning, it’s more than voice and choice. Here are five essentials for educators.

Shelby Taylor
Director of Marketing and Communications

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From Collegiality to Collective Efficacy

Shift from collegiality to collective efficacy to transform schools and classrooms.

Laura Hilger
Senior Director of Teaching and Learning

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From Collaboration to Collective Efficacy: Lessons from Emerging Leaders

Emerging leaders are learning how to move beyond collaboration to build collective efficacy that drives real impact in schools.

Kate Westrich
Vice President of Marketing and Communications

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Ideas and Tips for Student Agency in Assessment

Empowering students to set goals and track their progress using clear rubrics and reflective tools

Abbie Forbus Everett
Senior Director of Teaching and Learning

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States Are Reimagining Education Through Student-centered Policy

Insights from five years of policy implementation and progress

Lillian Pace
Vice President of Policy and Strategic Advancement

KnowledgeWorks works alongside teachers, school district leaders and communities to provide competency-based education implementation support and to assist in the scaling of a personalized, competency-based learning system tailored to each learning community.

8 Reasons Teachers Are Embracing Personalized Learning

Hear directly from teachers on why they value personalized, competency-based learning.

Sarah Jenkins
Senior Director of Programs

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Seeing with the Heart in the Age of AI

Approaching the Nevada Portrait of a Learner and the use of AI in education through the lens of The Little Prince

Shelby Taylor
Director of Marketing and Communications

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