Finding Your Path: A Navigation Tool for Scaling Personalized, Competency-Based Learning

Publication
August 9, 2021

By: Abbie Forbus Everett, Laura Hilger, Robin Kanaan, Lori Phillips

The way teachers teach and students learn is changing.

Finding Your Path: A Navigation Tool for Scaling Personalized, Competency-Based LearningAs more learning communities embrace personalized, competency-based learning – learning that centers each students’ strengths, needs and interests and provides differentiated supports and ways to demonstrate what they know and know how to do – educators and leaders are also working to ensure the changes they are making are systemic, sustainable and prioritize equitable, future-ready outcomes for all learners.

Finding Your Path: A Navigation Tool for Scaling Personalized, Competency-Based Learning is designed to help learning communities understand the conditions for sustainable systems change and to develop and advance a strategic plan for district-wide transformation to personalized, competency-based learning.

The tool explores:

  • System-level competencies aligned to learning targets that inform strategic action planning, professional development and community engagement goals
  • Guiding questions for educators, administrators and learners to help uncover progress and areas of growth for alignment toward equitable, systemic transformation
  • Examples of progress to look for across all areas of the system, from the classroom- to the community-level

Photos by Allison Shelley for EDUimages and Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for EDUimages.

THE AUTHORS

Abbie Forbus Everett
Director of Teaching and Learning
Laura Hilger
Director of Teaching and Learning
Robin Kanaan
Director of Teaching and Learning
Lori Phillips
Director of Teaching and Learning

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