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Creating Real-World Publications with AI
Designing projects with real-world audiences gives students a meaningful reason to produce high-quality work. Whether developing a magazine, designing a campaign, or creating digital media, students learn to collaborate, manage workflows, and tailor...
In Search of Efficacy: Defining the Elements of Quality in a Competency-Based Education System
This paper seeks to identify what makes up the structures of a competency-based system and launches an exploration of what we might ask or see in a competency-based district and school that would be identified as high quality. This paper explores...
Moving Toward Mastery: Growing, Developing and Sustaining Educators for Competency-Based Education
This publication re-envisions professional practice, learning and development for educators in competency-based education. As school districts transition to new, more powerful student-centered learning models, it’s critical that educators leading...
Agency by Design: Making Learning Engaging
“Learner agency is about having the power, combined with choices, to take meaningful action and see the result of those decisions. It can be thought of as a catalyst for change or transformation. Learner agency is about students having the...
Mere Engagement: Reflections about the Connections Between Online Learning, Student Agency, and Student Engagement
School leaders mustn’t lose sight of the need for student agency and student engagement as they contend with the myriad challenges posed by COVID-19. In fact, they must reimagine what agency and engagement can look like in cases when students are...
From Urgent to Future: Redesigning the Educator Role for the AI Era
This white paper reframes the debate about artificial intelligence in education by arguing that the central challenge is not technological disruption, but the design of the educator role itself. Grounded in research, field partnerships, and...
Open Learning Standards
West Belden has elected to use Engage NY’s open learning standards to meet Illinois' state standards, the Common Core State Standards.
Class Example: Shout-outs at ReNEW DTA
Daily "shout outs" are used to openly celebrate growth and success.
Students Choose Learning Objectives
Students are offered choice over what learning objectives to tackle and in what order in order to build agency and engagement.
Student Mastery Demonstration at ReNEW DTA
Students demonstrate mastery by creating a video illustrating how they work through an easy, medium, and hard problem within that standard.
Mastery Videos
Mastery is assessed in three ways, one of which is a demonstration recorded on an iPad.