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10 Elements of High Quality Digital Learning
Digital Learning Now’s Roadmap For Reform provides lawmakers, Governors, and policymakers with tangible steps to transform education into a model for the world, a system where every student graduates from high school with the skills and knowledge to...
What Is Competency-Based Education? An Updated Definition
This report updates the field's 2011 working definition of competency-based education, which helped to build the field and create common understandings of key elements in competency-based systems among stakeholders. Competency-based education is...
A Promise for Equitable Futures: Enabling Systems Change to Scale Educational and Economic Mobility Pathways
Fewer than one in five American students follow a clear and uninterrupted path from high school through college to career. The promise of a public education is to prepare all learners to engage in, contribute to, and achieve purpose in the world,...
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...
West Belden's Collaborative Teaching
West Belden teachers work across classrooms to deliver instruction and support to multi-age cohorts.
Daily Agenda
West Belden creates daily agendas to help organize the different learning activities taking place during a class period.
Goal-setting Process
West Belden students increase agency and ownership of their learning through goal setting and tracking their own progress.
Weekly 1:1 Conferences
West Belden teachers value and expect to spend significant amounts of time individually with each student.
Periodic diagnostic process
West Belden utilizes NWEA assessments to determine students skills and groupings
Lindsay High School
Lindsay High School serves all grade 9-12 students in Lindsay Unified Public Schools, a California district that uses a performance-based approach to personalized learning.