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Anytime, Anywhere Evidence of Learning

Recognizing growth in skills and knowledge through evidence collected within and beyond the school walls. The system honors learning that occurs across all aspects of a learner's life. Move from legacy practice credit is confined to learning that is associated with formal instruction to learner-centered practice where recognizing growth in skills and knowledge through evidence collected within and beyond the school walls. The system honors learning that occurs across all aspects of a learner's life.

Resources to support your practice:

  • Heather Cole Talks About Extended Learning Opportunities | Source: Nellie Mae Education Foundation
  • What is Place-Based Education and Why Does it Matter? | Source: Getting Smart
  • Enabling Anytime, Anywhere Learning through the Personalized Learning Framework | Source: Aurora Institute (iNACOL)

Aspirational Vision

A co-created illustration that describes a future to which the organization aspires.  Move from legacy practice where the district has an outdated vision/mission and may not reflect the collective community to learner-centered practice where a co-created illustration that describes a future to which the organization aspires.

Resources to support your practice:

  • Communicating a Shared Vision for Students and Education | Source: Hewlett Deeper Learning
  • Aligning Around a Common Vision for Learning | Source: Learner-Centered Collaborative

Culture of Innovation

Leaders nurture a culture where risk is encouraged, agency is rampant, expectations are high, and iteration is continuous. Move from legacy practice where decisions about the district and its schools are mostly made by leadership with little opportunity for input and/or collaboration, maintaining the status quo is encouraged, and following process and procedures is rewarded to learner-centered practice where leaders nurture a culture where risk is encouraged, agency is rampant, expectations are high, and iteration is continuous.

Resources to support your practice:

  • Essential Learning: Leadership for Learning | Source: Leading with the Learning
  • How collaborative leadership delivers sustainable innovation | Source: Harvard Business School
  • Discover and develop leadership talent hiding in plain sight | Source: SmartBrief

Educator Agency

Evaluation, professional development and teaming support educator risk-taking and growth to meet the aspirational vision of a personalized and competency-based system. Move from legacy practice where accountability systems are based on traditional achievement measures to learner-centered practice where evaluation, professional development and teaming support educator risk-taking and growth to meet the aspirational vision of a personalized and competency-based system.

Resources to support your practice:

  • 16 Ways to Own Your Professional Learning | Source: Dr. John Spencer
  • The Role of Coaching in Developing Playful Lessons | Source: Edutopia

Integrated Data Ecosystem

Data management systems are transparent, real-time and easily accessible to all stakeholders to support each learner’s progress and goals. Move from legacy practice where data repositories and sources are fragmented, difficult to access and use, and not available to students to learner-centered practice where data management systems are transparent, real-time and easily accessible to all stakeholders to support each learner's progress and goals.

Resources to support your practice:

  • How to Share Data with Families | Source: ASCD
  • Using Data: Engaging Students | Source: EL Education
  • Making Students Partners in Data-Driven Approaches to Learning | Source: KQED

Learner-Centered Human Capital

Organizations utilize adults in roles aligned to the goals of learners and the design of the system. Move from legacy practice where the traditional staffing model is highly structured, with one teacher to a cohort of 20 to 30 students to learner-centered practice where organizations utilize adults in roles aligned to the goals of learners and the design of the system.

Resources to support your practice:

  • Getting Clearer: Stakeholders At The Heart of Education | Source: Getting Smart
  • Innovative Staffing to Personalize Learning: How new teaching roles and blended learning help students succeed | Source: Christensen Institute
  • Toward the Structural Transformation of Schools: Innovations in Staffing | Source: American Institutes for Research
     
Learner-Centered Structures

Organizational structures are designed to support learners through flexibility in use of time, pace of advancement, and use of physical spaces. Move from legacy practice where students are expected to progress at the same rate within a prescribed amount of time (time is the constant; learning is the variable) and traditional classrooms and furniture may limit flexible grouping and inhibit interaction to learner-centered practice where organizational structures are designed to support learners through flexibility in use of time, pace of advancement, and use of physical spaces.

Resources to support your practice:

  • Having our cake and eating it too | Source: Education Reimagined
  • Innovative High School Schedules | Source: Getting Smart
  • Credentialed Learning for All | Source: Getting Smart

Learner-Centered Systemic Policies

Leaders will align local policy to remove barriers and support the depth and sustainability of a learner-centered system.  Leaders will challenge the state and national policies that are not aligned to the aspirational vision and advocate for policies that are aligned. Move from legacy practice where leaders are informed of educational policy at the local, state, and national level and local policies inhibit learner-centered practices that have been identified to learner-centered practice where leaders will align local policy to remove barriers and support the depth and sustainability of a learner-centered system.  Leaders will challenge the state and national policies that are not aligned to the aspirational vision and advocate for policies that are aligned.

Resources to support your practice:

  • State Policies to Support Student-Centered Learning | Source: Education Commission of the States
  • Exploring Existing Policies that Present Possibilities to Support Ecosystem Design | Source: Education Reimagined

Learner-Driven Technology

The learning drives the use of technology as learners determine what they learn, how they learn, and/or how they demonstrate learning. The technology enhances, deepens, or accelerates understanding and mastery of content. Move from legacy practice where technology is used primarily as a substitute for, or augmentation of, existing tasks to learner-centered practice where the learning drives the use of technology as learners determine what they learn, how they learn, and/or how they demonstrate learning. The technology enhances, deepens, or accelerates understanding and mastery of content.

Resources to support your practice:

  • 2023 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report: Teaching & Learning Edition | Source: Educause
  • Triple-E Framework for Tech Integration | Source: Liz Kolb
  • Empowered Learner - 1B: Customized Learning Environments (ISTE Standards for Students) | Source: ISTE
  • 10 Ways to Use EdTech to Elevate Learning | Source: Alice Keeler

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