About the Commission
The NCSL Student-Centered Learning Commission is a bipartisan group of state legislators that spent three years studying legislative policy options, obstacles and recommendations to help states move forward with systems that support student-centered learning opportunities.
Examples of Student-Centered Learning Principles
- Learning is personalized
- Learning is competency-based
- Learning takes place anytime, anywhere
- Students have ownership over their learning
NCSL Blog Posts About Commission Activities
Meetings and Timeline
- May 12, 2017: First meeting of the NCSL Student-Centered Learning Commission in Washington, D.C.
- June 28, 2017: Webinar | Overview of K-12 Competency-Based Education
- Aug. 6, 2017: Second meeting of the NCSL Student-Centered Learning Commission in Boston, Massachusetts
- Aug. 16, 2017: Webinar | ESSA and Personalized Learning
- April 13, 2018: Webinar | Performance-based Assessments for Teaching and Learning
- May 9-11, 2018: Third meeting of the NCSL Student-Centered Learning Commission in Manchester, New Hampshire
- Sept. 26-28, 2019: Fourth meeting of the NCSL Student-Centered Learning Commission in Boise, Idaho
- Nov. 14, 2018: Webinar | Support for Teachers and Leaders in Student-Centered Learning Environments
- April 26, 2019: Webinar | Student-Centered Learning for All Learners
- June 26-27, 2019: Fifth meeting of the NCSL Student-Centered Learning Commission in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Aug. 5, 2019: Final meeting of the NCSL Student-Centered Learning Commission in Nashville, Tennessee.
- January 24, 2020: Webinar | Student-Centered Learning: A Review of the Research