Professional Learning

Learning for All Innovation Zones

2024-2025 Archive

All three of the SRSN Innovation Zones come together the second Wednesday of each month to engage in using a personalized competency-based mindset to support learning design. A key feature of these sessions centers around assessment for learning and reimagining a state-wide assessment/accountability system. Participants engage with national and state experts, and share insights about their own practices. Many of the videos and resources provided are excellent tools for building and district leaders striving to create quality professional learning experiences.

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Session 1

Session 1

  • Celebrate current milestones for district’s personalized competency-based learning journey

  • Identify key elements of the Demonstration Project and understand the current status of designing a new assessment

  • Identify examples of innovative strategies for implementing integrated real-world learning in diverse school environments across urban, rural, and suburban regions

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Session 2

Expanding Real-World Learning to Every Classroom

  • Share learning from Real-World Learning Pathways Conference

  • Sharing real life examples of district dashboards

  • Understand opportunities for AI to Connect to Real World Learning

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Session 3

Expanding Real-World Learning Pathways

  • Sharing practice across the network

  • Consider ideas for using the Continuous Improvement Framework

  • Update from the Demonstration Project

  • Consider new outcomes, new experiences, new signals as an overall strategy to get to new pathways and RWL

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Session 4

Connecting the Work of Career Technical Education and the Success Ready Students Network

  • Updates from the Demonstration Project

  • Tenets of CTE and IRC

  • SRSN connection to CTE and IRC Efforts

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Session 5

Applying The Competency-Based Learning Mindset To Real Practice

  • Update on Professional Learning for All Educators

  • Update from the Demonstration Project

  • Examine the work of the Aurora Institute and Connections to the Success-Ready Student Network

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Session 6

Competency-Based Reporting’s Transformative Impact on Education

  • SRSN Professional Learning Overview

  • Recap of previous learning sessions

  • Update from the Demonstration Project

  • Gain an overview of competency-based reporting models

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Session 7

Systems and Structures to Support Competency-Based Assessment

  • Understand Professional Learning Opportunities for Educators

  • Understand the purpose of the Master Teacher Cadre

  • Hear Update from the Demonstration Project

  • Hear Update from an SRSN Convener

  • Consider Systems and Structures to Support Competency-Based Assessment

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Session 8

Authentic Assessment

  • Hear how two districts are personalizing their own journey to shift toward a PCBL mindset.

  • Understand how authentic assessments with intentional design aligns with both student needs and academic standards.

  • Determine how relevance, accessibility, and feedback mechanisms allow teachers to design assessments that not only measure learning but also inspire it.

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