Tag Archives: iNACOL

Posted on May 31, 2018 by Stan Freeda

Today, CompetencyWorks released a new report, Levers and Logic Models: A Framework to Guide Research and Design of High-Quality Competency-Based Education Systems. Competency-based education is designed to ensure all students develop the skills they will need to be successful for … Continue reading →

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Designing for Equity: Leveraging Competency Based Education to Ensure All Students Succeed

Posted on April 5, 2018 by Stan Freeda

CompetencyWorks releases new publication, Designing for Equity: Leveraging Competency Based Education to Ensure All Students Succeed. This publication offers equity strategies for personalized, competency-based education to ensure a more equitable K-12 education system. Districts and schools can use the equity … Continue reading →

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iNACOL Publishes Guidance on Moving Education from Current to Future State

Posted on January 23, 2018 by Stan Freeda

Current to Future State: Issues and Action Steps for State Policy to Support Personalized, Competency-Based Learning This report provides a roadmap and action steps for state policymakers to catalyze transformational change in K-12 education toward a future vision for systems … Continue reading →

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Next Generation Approaches to Certifying Student Readiness for Future Success

Posted on December 20, 2017 by Stan Freeda

Meaningful qualifications are credentials and degrees awarded based on demonstrated mastery of the skills, knowledge and dispositions students need for success in higher education, the modern workforce and in life. More meaningful qualifications can motivate students, improve college persistence and … Continue reading →

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iNACOL Releases: Quality and Equity by Design: Charting the Course for the Next Phase of Competency-Based Education

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Stan Freeda

This publication seeks to advance K-12 competency education along four key issues: quality, equity, meeting students where they are, and policy. K-12 education in the United States and across the world is at a critical point in its evolution, and … Continue reading →

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iNACOL Issues Policy Brief on K-12 Competency-Based Education

Posted on August 29, 2017 by Stan Freeda

Today, iNACOL released a new issue brief on State Policy & K-12 Competency-Based Education, which provides an overview of competency-based education, state policy recommendations and resources for policymakers who are ready to enable and support competency education. Competency-based education is … Continue reading →

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Clarifying the Overall Pedagogical Approach

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Stan Freeda

Posted on iNACOL.org on December 29, 2016 in New Learning Models, Practice by Chris Sturgis.  This is the eighth article in the series Implementing Competency Education in K-12 Systems: Insights from Local Leaders.  Links to the other articles in this series … Continue reading →

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Modernizing Educator and Leader Development for a Next Generation Workforce

Posted on December 23, 2015 by Stan Freeda

A highly trained and engaged educator workforce will be the single most important driver of a successful personalized, competency-based education system. Educators and leaders will take on new roles as they work individually and collectively to design customized pathways to … Continue reading →

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iNACOL Releases Blended Learning Report

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Stan Freeda

Blending Learning: The Evolution of Online and Face-to-Face Education from 2008–2015 In 2008, iNACOL produced a series of papers documenting promising practices identified throughout the field of K–12 online learning. Since then, we have witnessed a tremendous acceleration of transformative … Continue reading →

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Digital Learning Equity Act of 2015 Introduced in the US Senate

Posted on June 22, 2015 by Stan Freeda

On Friday, June 19, U.S. Senators Angus King (I-Maine) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.) introduced the Digital Learning Equity Act of 2015, major legislation that would support innovative ways to improve student access to the Internet and other digital learning … Continue reading →

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