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Future Learning Council urges Michigan shift from seat time to competency-based learning
Summary
Superintendents from the Future Learning Council told a House appropriations subcommittee they want Michigan to move away from time-based pupil accounting and toward personalized, competency-based learning, asking for modest strategic grants and policy support to scale demonstration districts.
The Future Learning Council urged the House Appropriations Subcommittee on School Aid and Department of Education on Oct. 21 to pursue competency-based, personalized learning and to change Michigan’s pupil-accounting structures that tie funding to seat time rather than demonstrated mastery.
Dr. Lori Haven, superintendent of Perry Public Schools and a member of the Future Learning Council, told the committee the group has grown from about a dozen superintendents eight years ago to roughly 80 districts, intermediate school districts and charters working monthly to design models that let students progress after demonstrating competency rather than after fixed seat time. “We are really trying to look and be champions for that innovation, instructional practice and policy that supports personalized learning and competency-based…
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