Policy Background

• Kentucky’s ESSA Plan includes, and the Kentucky Department of Education is rolling out, aCompetency-Based Education and Assessment Pilot. Shelby County and Trigg County public schools have been accepted into the program. Teams from both districts began work in the spring of 2018, with the intent to launch the pilot during the 2018-2019 school year. Dale has reached out to David Cook to get more details on the program. Additionally, the state department published apersonalized learning glossary in partnership with KnowledgeWorks. (updated May 2018)
  
• Kentucky has released RFA for Competency Based Education and Assessment Pilot(for 2018)
  
• Districts of Innovation created by law in 2012 to redesign student learning in an effort to engage and motivate more students and increase the number of students who are college- and career-ready.
• Kentucky regs allow districts to issue "a standards-based, performance-based credit, regardless of the number of instructional hours." (KY Admin. Code, 704 KAR 3:305) (CFAT 50-State Scan of Course Credit Policies 2013)
• Open House: Kentucky Department of Education data site
• KY CCR Standards

Evidence of Improved Achievement, Attainment, or Cost-Effectiveness: No information at this time (May 2014)

Networks and Resources

• Member, ACHIEVE Competency-based Pathways State Partnership network, 2014
• Kentucky P20 Innovation Lab, Feb. 2014
• Innovation Lab Network: Kentucky is a member.
• Competency-Based Education: Helping All Kentucky Children Succeed. Report finalized in 2013 after statewide summit in 2012.
• Kentucky is one of six states (the others are Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Wisconsin and W. Virginia) working with researchers to test hypothetical learning progressions in elementary and middle school mathematics and English/language arts.
• Division of Innovation and Partner Engagement, KY Department of Education, supports districts in their applications and enables rapid prototyping
• Kentucky is considering an EAA/Buzz model. Participants will likely include districts within the Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative (consortium of 18 rural districts - RTTT winners). (Added by CS Dec 2013; not confirmed)
• Carmen Coleman, the superintendent of Danville School District, is taking a position at the University of Kentucky's National Center for Innovation in Education, where she hopes to oversee the founding of a performance-standards consortium like the one in New York. (From this article, June 2014)
• Univeristy of Kentucky dlab led by John Nash is helping districts and schools begin to think differently about how schools can be designed. 

Districts and Schools

• Danville Schools has some elements but is not fully cbe
• Eminence Independent Schools has many of the elements of cbe
• School on Fire Framework of Innovation for Reinventing Education
• Jefferson County School of Innovation
• Working with CCE (2017): moving towards competency-based  
• Taylor Co. School District - See description by Education Reimagined
• iLEAD Academy may become cbe
• Kentucky Valley Education Collaborative working with a number of districts around personalizing and innovation. They have had presentations on cbe but have not put it into place yet. (RTT District awardee)
• Frankfort considering performance-based credits (Jan 2016) 
• Shelby County (exploring 2016)
  

Higher Education

• Kentucky Commonwealth College (a collaborative effort of Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education, the University of Louisville, and Western Kentucky University)
• Learn On-Demand (see article)
• Berea College's Work/Service is competency-based

Blogs

• Kentucky Invests in Innovation to Advance College and Career Readiness, Mariana Haynes, Alliance for Excellent Education, May 2014
• The Danville Diploma, Jesse Moyer, World of Learning, July 2013

In the News

• Eminence on Fire after Changes, Kentucky Teacher, Oct. 2012