KnowledgeWorks
KnowledgeWorks partners with learning communities to create personalized, competency-based learning environments that prepare students for future success. The organization supports transformative, culturally responsive education practices and aligns policies to facilitate these goals.
Services
KnowledgeWorks partners with learning communities to create purposeful paths and places to ensure each student graduates ready for what’s next. The organization provides expertise and technical assistance to align and implement local, state, and federal education policies that facilitate personalized, competency-based learning. It also offers a framework and customized technical assistance to state, district, and building leaders to ensure successful and sustainable implementation of these learning practices.
Partnership Approach
KnowledgeWorks takes a state-based and partnership approach to help districts and schools advance their personalized, competency-based learning goals. They emphasize the importance of community voice in building a vision for personalized learning and work collaboratively with school districts and communities to create innovative, competency-based education opportunities. Their partnership approach helps administrators and educators create community-wide plans to achieve their vision, understand opportunities for professional development, and build capacity to sustain personalized learning practices.
Transformative Education Strategies
KnowledgeWorks supports efforts to build transformative and culturally responsive education structures and pedagogy. This includes anti-racist teaching and universal design for learning. The organization emphasizes educator agency, well-being, and growth mindsets to help create human-centered learning environments. By using a democratized data-driven approach, they document, demonstrate, and improve efforts to implement personalized, competency-based learning that advance equity.
Future of Education
Since 2006, KnowledgeWorks has been engaged in a disciplined study of the trends shaping the future of education. They develop forecasts examining possible futures and explore actions that learning communities can take today to shape the future they want for their graduates. Some of their published Forecasts include the 2020 Forecast, Forecast 3.0, and Navigating the Future of Learning. Their vision is a future of learning where students of all races and ethnicities, incomes, and identities pursue learning experiences that enable them to uncover their passions and thrive in an evolving world.
History
Founded in 2000, KnowledgeWorks has a long history of improving education opportunities for students. Over the years, they have developed various strategies and policies to support innovative teaching and learning, focusing on personalized, competency-based education. Their core values, which include passion, courage, empowerment, partnership, and inclusion, guide their efforts as they continue to help learning communities develop a shared vision for personalized education.