The State Policy Framework for Personalized Learning establishes an end-state policy structure for those seeking to advance the growth of student-centered and competency-based approaches at the state level.
State policy plays a crucial role in driving school and district education practice, including the adoption of personalized, competency-based learning. When well designed, policy and implementation steps can support and advance the work being done in communities throughout a state. When designed poorly, it can act as a hindrance at best and an insurmountable barrier at worst. This third edition of the State Policy Framework is grounded in more than a decade of experience working in states and presents an “end-state” framework for a transformed state policy environment that would support and advance the growth of personalized, competency-based learning.
The framework is divided into eight policy conditions that our extensive field experience shows are necessary to support student-centered learning, including personalized, competency-based education. The conditions are:
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Each condition includes several details, including:
- What an evolved state policy environment would look like
- Transformative policies requiring state-level policymakers to exercise formal authority
- Implementation actions that will help readers translate recommendations into action
- State examples that illustrate policy conditions in action
- Additional resources to support deeper exploration
While the eight conditions offer our collective vision of the ideal policy environment, KnowledgeWorks encourages states to consider their own unique realities when developing and implementing policy. Our work supporting nearly two dozen states to build meaningful policy systems suggests that doing so is key to ownership and sustainability.
