reDesign, an organization dedicated to learner-centred education, has established CBE Catalyst, a team-based online professional learning community designed to accelerate school and district implementation of competency-based systems.
CBE Catalyst, launched at the Aurora Institute Symposium in November, is meant to help educators turn learning into action by providing a comprehensive, adaptable package of professional support services. It is designed to give school and district teams maximum flexibility to create a CBE pathway that fits their vision, community, and capacity. All activities are opt-in. Annual membership includes:
- CBE Ignite Essentials: Join a cohort of school teams for three launch modules facilitated by a reDesign coach. Essentials modules are offered quarterly so teams can determine the best timing.
- CBE Tools & Resources: Access an ever-expanding library of CBE tools, self-paced modules, and other resources delivered monthly to teams.
- Q&A Sessions: Engage with reDesign coaches for just-in-time guidance and support.
- Community of Practice: Collaborate, troubleshoot, celebrate successes, and crowdsource ideas.
- Youth Feedback: Create pathways for partnering with young people to provide feedback and pilot new CBE designs and policies.
Antonia Rudenstine, Founder and Executive Director of reDesign, said:
There is growing global agreement that education should focus on developing uniquely human skills that complement AI and other new technologies. Competency-based learning is a powerful lever in this work. However, systemic shifts to CBE require robust, adaptable, and engaging learning opportunities for educators that are affordable at scale. For years, educators at all system levels have shared that the fragmentation and cost of offerings in the CBE professional learning space stymies them.
Rudenstine added:
With 40% of states engaged in developing Graduate Portraits that spotlight the most important competencies young people need, we can accelerate the current momentum by collaborating as CBE learners, designers, and leaders. CBE Catalyst is a low-cost, membership community where educators can prepare to ignite this shift in their communities–tapping into the hard-won CBE expertise and solutions of colleagues from around the country while contributing to the field’s knowledge base regarding emergent best practices.
CBE Catalyst learning opportunities will commence in February 2025.
reDesign is a community of educators, coaches, designers provocateurs, parents, entrepreneurs, and researchers who believe that transforming education is possible. Since 2008, the company has partnered with schools, districts, and states to spark change in education. With more than 60 years of combined experience, it has helped communities create opportunities for over one million young people to develop the skills that enable them to thrive in a rapidly changing world.
