Sydney Schaef, Managing Director at reDesign, discusses the Future9 competencies, 34 skills for future readiness. They delve into developmental progressions in learning systems, independent of specific contexts, focusing on collaboration, research skills, and practical competencies like critiquing perspectives and navigating conflicts.
Future9 competencies define future readiness through 34 skills for student progression.
Skill progressions in competency frameworks focus on student-centric assessment over traditional grading systems.
Deep dives
Key Insight: Development of Future-Ready Skills
The episode delves into the creation of nine key competencies and 34 associated skills essential for preparing young people to navigate and shape the future world. These competencies aim to define future readiness by incorporating extensive research and stakeholder engagement over the years. Notably, they offer a practical framework developed through collaboration with school districts and state partners to assess learners' progression effectively.
Key Point: Skill Progressions and Assessment
The podcast highlights the significance of skill progressions as distinct from traditional rubrics in competency frameworks. Skill progressions outline developmental stages across competencies, focusing on a student-centric approach to assessment rather than a grading system. By providing tools for learning targets, rubric development, and student self-assessment, these progressions serve as a comprehensive backbone for learning and evaluation.
Insight: Enhancing Learning Experiences and Educator Support
The future nine competencies address challenges faced by educators in aligning standards and curriculum with essential skill sets. By emphasizing clarity and usability, the competencies aim to provide educators with accessible resources for developing learning goals, designing assessments, and supporting student growth. The design choice to embed elements like feedback, questioning, and reflection into competency development reflects a research-informed approach to skills acquisition and future readiness.
On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Rebecca Midles is joined by Sydney Schaef, Managing Director at reDesign, a nationally recognized, women-led education design lab committed to ensuring every young person is future-ready. reDesign recently released the Future9 competencies, 34 skills across a six-level designed progression. The framework draws on more than a decade of collaboration with schools, districts, and state leaders, alongside extensive research reviews, and feedback sessions with academics, young people, and industry leaders.
Together they investigate the the implementation of developmental-level progressions within learning systems, that operate at a different grain size from standards and are typically independent of specific contexts or curricula.