Time: 3:00-4:30 p.m. Central Time

Location: Virtual (Zoom)

Description: This REL Midwest webinar will showcase how competency-based education (CBE) strategies can positively impact student learning outcomes and how to create structures within a school or classroom to effectively implement CBE strategies. A senior researcher from the American Institutes for Research will present an overview and key findings from a study that examined the relationship between CBE practices and students’ learning skills, behaviors, and dispositions. Participants also will hear from a school leader with a high school in Illinois about her experience implementing CBE instructional strategies, including challenges and lessons learned. Finally, representatives from the Minnesota Department of Education will discuss how the department is supporting state-approved alternative and online learning programs implementing CBE.

Partnership or Research Alliance: Midwest Alliance for Career Readiness Research

Audience: This webinar is designed for principals, instructional coaches, other school leaders, teachers, district administrators, and state administrators whose work involves CBE or equity, with a special focus on targeting members of the Minnesota Networked Improvement Community.

Speakers:

• Dominque Bradley, PhD, REL Midwest
• Susan Burkhauser, PhD, REL Midwest
• Lisa Balata, Ridgewood High School
• Jeff Plaman, Minnesota Department of Education
• Sally Reynolds, Minnesota Department of Education
• Kristina Zeiser, PhD, American Institutes for Research

Report Citations: Haynes, E., Zeiser, K., Surr, W., Hauser, A., Clymer, L., Walston, J., Bitter, C., & Yang, R. (2016). Looking under the hood of competency-based education: The relationship between competency-based education practices and students’ learning skills, behaviors, and dispositions. Quincy, MA: Nellie Mae Education Foundation. Retrieved March 13, 2020 from https://www.air.org/sites/default/files/downloads/report/CBE-Study%20Full%20Report.pdf.