Simplify Competency-Based Learning in Illinois with SpacesEDU
Competecy-Based Learning in Illinois: Help All Students Succeed
- Support students in documenting evidence of adaptive competencies using multimedia tools, and easily track progress toward mastery at the individual student and classroom levels
- Make competency-based assessment easy by tagging artifacts of learning to Illinois Learning Standards in real-time and sorting evidence by standard or custom competency
- Monitor progress toward competency from the classroom to the district with a powerful Proficiency Report, competency-based grade book, and Administrator Reports that consolidate individual student and classroom data
Bring Your Portrait of a Graduate in Illinois to Life
- Create custom Portrait of a Graduate Portfolio Templates aligned to your local Portrait of a Graduate competencies and have students document their progress toward them K-12
- Equip teachers with the means to easily view, post, comment upon, and identify gaps in student competency development with an easy-to-use Competency Report
- Set students up for success after graduation with URL Sharing to share their Portfolio alongside college, scholarship, and job applications
Personalized Learning in Illinois: Support Every Student's Journey
- Equip educators with the tools to easily provide personalized learning pathways with custom spaces for group work, individual work, and full-class work
- Meet the needs of all learners with personalized Activities tailored to individual or group needs and aligned to Illinois Learning Standards
- Give students voice and choice into how they show what they know with multimedia, and enable teachers to provide learner-focused feedback with the very same media options
FAQs: Competency-Based Learning in Illinois
Why are districts in Illinois implementing competency-based learning?
Illinois school districts are adopting competency-based learning to ensure all students have the opportunity to demonstrate what they know, experience success, progress when ready, and develop the adaptive competencies needed for success after they leave the K-12 system. Currently, 45 school districts are participating in the Competency-Based High School Graduation Pilot Program in Illinois.
How does SpacesEDU support competency-based learning in Illinois?
SpacesEDU supports competency-based learning in Illinois through comprehensive competency-based assessment and reporting tools that help educators streamline their workflows and provide personalized learning environments more easily.
Our competency-based assessment and reporting tools allow educators to quickly tag evidence of learning to Illinois Learning Standards, view mastery at a glance at both individual and classroom levels, and provide multimedia feedback to meet the needs of all learners.
Why are school districts implementing Portrait of a Graduate in Illinois?
Districts in Illinois are developing and implementing their local Portrait of a Graduate to respond to the changing needs of the workforce and ensure their students have opportunities to build the employability skills and 21st-century skills, relevant to their local community, that they need to be future-ready and thrive after graduation.
How does SpacesEDU support Portrait of a Graduate in Illinois?
SpacesEDU supports Portrait of a Graduate in Illinois by helping Illinois school districts take their local Portrait of a Graduate from poster to effective implementation with a custom, local Portfolio Template that follows students K-12. Students document multimedia evidence of their learning and skill development over time and can share it in their defense of learning and alongside college and job applications. Stakeholders gain visibility into how students are progressing toward their Portrait of a Graduate competencies with district-wide reports.
How are other Illinois districts using SpacesEDU?
School districts in Illinois like Oregon Community Unit School District 220 use SpacesEDU to support taking their Portrait of a Graduate from poster on the wall into the hands of their students. Many Illinois school districts set custom grade ranges for their SpacesEDU Portfolio Templates to align with how different groups of learners demonstrate skills and to set grade-specific language and resources for these groups of students.
What does the typical onboarding process look like to support Portrait of a Graduate, personalized learning, and competency-based learning in Illinois?
When an Illinois school district decides to work with us, they will partner with a dedicated Partner Success Specialist to define their goals for Portrait of a Graduate implementation and competency-based learning using SpacesEDU, create custom training and communication plans, and ensure successful adoption of the software.
We work with each Illinois district to tailor their strategy, including offering a proof of concept term, to effectively evaluate the software for your use case and unique population of students.
