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Capturing and Communicating Learning Requires More Than Time-Based Measures
Learn how a mastery-based transcript meets the needs of future-focused teaching and learning and how we can implement it.
How I’m Using Imagining Liberatory Education Futures
A futurist walks us through how she works with our forecast Imagining Liberatory Education Futures and applies it locally.
Topics: 101, Community Partnerships, Future of Learning, Vision and Culture
2022 Legislative Session Recap
As the legislative sessions end, we take a look at education policies supporting personalized, competency-based learning across the nation, using...
Topics: Education Policy
From State Commitment to District Implementation
A new exploratory report examines the implementation of personalized, competency-based learning across four states.
Topics: Impact and Improvement
Building Toward ESEA Reauthorization
Now is the time for change. Here is a learning agenda for federal assessment and accountability reform.
Accelerating Assessment and Accountability Innovation
Assessment and accountability recommendations for states leading the future of student-centered school quality systems
Portrait of a Graduate: A North Star for Teaching and Learning in Utah
Utah's portrait of a graduate guides their transformation process. Hear about it from the Utah State Board of Education's chief...
Educating Kentucky: Innovation, One Step at a Time
Learn the steps Kentucky took to innovate their system into one that is futures-oriented, collaborative and inclusive.
Looking Beneath the Surface to Create Liberatory Education Futures
Because we will never break out of systems, it’s important to examine them to understand and change them. The systems...
Students Talk Equitable and Personalized Learning in Remaking Tomorrow Podcast Takeover
In this takeover of a podcast about the future of learning, we hear from those closest to learning: students.
Topics: Education Equity
2022 Legislation to Keep Your Eyes On
We’ve identified over 200 bills across 40 states that would advance priorities in support of personalized, competency-based learning. Find out...
Topics: Education Policy
Could education help us reconnect?
The fight for just societies is setting the context for the future of learning and creating shared, existential challenges that...
What We Measure Matters
Student data is about more than just achievement. We need to capture evidence of meaningful, relevant learning experiences, too.
Critically Uncertain: The 2×2 Matrix and Futures for Liberatory Education
Why it’s important to spend time with uncertainty to help us clarify what we want from the future
Topics: Future of Learning
States Report on Advancing Student-Centered Learning at SXSW EDU
Two SXSWedu sessions hosted district and state leaders sharing their efforts in pursuit of systemic change.
Topics: Education Policy
What is liberatory education?
What is liberatory education? Let's break it down with the work of Zaretta Hammond and Rapheal Randall.
The Learners Are Wondering When We Will Get Together
Sustainable change at the systems level isn’t possible unless we’re participating meaningfully as a group.
Topics: Systems Change
Discussion Guide for IMPACT: Learning Edition
It’s about more than winning. This discussion guide can help you get the most IMPACT out of your game.
Federal Action to Support Competitive Grants for State Assessments
The Fiscal Year 2022 Appropriations bill which Congress passed includes funding for the Competitive Grants for State Assessments program.
Routes Not Ruts: Detracking Our Paths to Equity
Debunking myths that reinforce tracking and showing how personalized, competency-based learning pathways can replace it
Topics: Education Equity
What Does Student Learning Look Like in Your Classroom?
How one Utah teacher sees that technology shouldn’t be center stage in teaching and learning; rather, the focus should be...
Leading for and through Change
Three CCSSO leaders share strategies from their states in support of personalized, competency-based learning. And none are alike.
Imagining Liberatory Education Futures
Introducing our sixth anchor forecast Imagining Liberatory Education Futures.
Overcoming Differences in Federal Accountability and Assessment Reform
KnowledgeWorks is thinking deeply and critically about a set of policy solutions that will help our country create a bridge...
Topics: Education Policy