My TEDx talk, "The Empowering Future of Education" calls for an updating of what we value in education and the roles of teachers and students in schools. These systemic updates make school more personal and relevant. SEE THE WHOLE TALK on the TEDx Channel youtube.com/watch?v=A_M6Lu…

"Our job is to help people understand WHY schools must change, not just the possibilities the future holds for education." Tony Wagner #MTCSymposium2023 #MTC

In his welcome, Tony Wagner details the problem with education currently, not meeting its purpose of preparing students for meaningful work, for active citizenship, and a life of health and wellbeing. This formulation of the problem is key. #MTCSymposium2023 #MTC

Wow, the new Progress tracker unveiled at the #MTCSymposium2023 is a game changer in growing, assessing, and recording development of competencies on a regular basis and sharing a progress report snapshot for caregivers. #MTC #GrowProgressShare

It is always a pleasure to GROW, PROGRESS, and SHARE (GPS) with the Mastery Transcript Consortium® (MTC) team and network. It was a pleasure connecting with new friends at the #MTCSymposium2023 ❤️👊🏽

Favorite Mythbuster: Transcripts have never all looked the same. #GrowProgressShare #MTCSymposium2023 Mastery Transcript Consortium® (MTC)

"Making learning and competencies visible to the learner and the reader is one of the purposes of next gen credentials" such as the Mastery Transcript Consortium® (MTC) Laurie Gagnon leads one of the final sessions to help call teams to action at the #MTCSymposium2023 #MTC

We love being in the room as Mendon-Upton RSD, a GOA member, is presenting at the Mastery Transcript Consortium® (MTC) Symposium today. We learned so much and enjoyed connecting with so many of you Jason Cummings #competencyed #CBL

Closing out the #MTCSymposium2023 CEO Mastery Transcript Consortium® (MTC), Mike Flanagan sends us off and gets us excited for next year's symposium in Denver on Sept 19-20th.

During his closing remarks, Mike Flanagan CEO of Mastery Transcript Consortium® (MTC) makes the case for MORE, referencing Amazon's flywheel & how #MTC will grow over the coming years, knowing growth is possible by leveraging the direction of coming tailwinds and AI technology. #MTCSymposium2023

Further reading for the Mastery Transcript Consortium® (MTC) community from the student perspective: How Being in a Competency-Based Learning Environment Prepared Me for College aurora-institute.org/cw_post/how-be… #GrowProgressShare #MTCSymposium2023 Aurora Institute

In contrast to the current system, a #StudentCentered system would place emphasis on mastery of knowledge, assessment, use of data to measure growth & calibrate pace & progress. Read about the five themes for transforming school systems. bit.ly/3ZgeFdD #BeyondTheHorizon

1) Mike Flanagan, #MTC CEO, closed out the #MTCSymposium2023 by recapping MTC’s journey from a scrappy start-up to an influential network poised to help scale competency-based learning models that give learners greater choice, voice and agency as they pursue career pathways!

#StudentCentered systems emphasize mastery of knowledge, assessment of skills, and use of data to calibrate pace and progress. #BeyondTheHorizon offers a deep dive into this topic, highlighting five themes for transforming school quality systems. bit.ly/3ZgeFdD

Join Susie Bell, Chief Program Officer, and Eddie Arteaga, Senior Director of Higher Ed. Engagement, in discussions of accreditation, current grading practices vs mastery-based reporting, and admission trends/practices at #Aurora23! Register: bit.ly/AttendSymposiu… Aurora Institute

“Over the next three-to-four years, you’re going to be seeing us making bolder moves so that we can take everything that we’ve built with you and for your young people and really try and make it ubiquitous.” - MTC CEO Mike Flanagan #MTCSymposium2023

“Every learner leaves our system with a purpose to make the world a better place.” ⁦Tyler S. Thigpen⁩ ⁦The Forest School: An Acton Academy⁩ ⁦Aurora Institute⁩ #aurora23

Mastery Transcript Consortium® (MTC) is truly laying the groundwork for meaningful innovation! CSCS is so happy to be a part of this work!

Virgel Hammonds, Chief Learning Officer at KnowledgeWorks, shared 2 examples of large scale, innovative practices at our #2023MTCSymposium. The first was NYC's grading framework, which abolishes zeroes & is rooted in evidence of learning over compliance and completion. (cont'd)