Aurora Institute

Aurora Institute is a nonprofit organization with the mission to catalyze the transformation of K-12 education policy and practice to advance powerful, personalized, student-centered experiences through competency-based, blended and online learning. Aurora Institute engages in policy advocacy, publishes quality standards and catalyzes new opportunities for anytime, anywhere personalized learning. Aurora Institute’s 2022 Federal Policy Priorities…

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10 Step Primer for Competency-based Learning Design

10 Step Primer for Competency-based Learning Design

By Josie Jordan As an educator on the design team of the Pathways program at Mt. Abraham Union High School, I got pretty good at designing and scaffolding personalized, competency-based projects for individual students. Back in the regular classroom, it was a challenge to transfer those same, powerful practices to larger groups of learners without…

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