The Kirkwood School District has joined school districts across the state of Missouri to design a better way for each student to engage in meaningful learning, demonstrate individual growth, and prepare for future success. The success-ready students network (SRSN) is a framework for redesigning and reimagining assessment and accountability practices that places student learning at the center and ensures that every student can master and apply the knowledge, skills and dispositions they need to be high school, college, career and workplace ready.

SRSN Competency-Based Learning Definition

A competency-based, personalized learning mindset is an essential component that supports this student-centered framework and the work of the SRSN.

The Missouri framework for competency-based learning (CBL) includes the seven elements that define a competency-based education system, plus an additional Real World Learning element, for a total of eight elements.

1. Students are empowered daily to make important decisions about their learning experiences, how they will create and apply knowledge, and how they will demonstrate their learning.

2. Assessment is a meaningful, positive, and empowering learning experience for students that yields timely, relevant, and actionable evidence.

3. Students receive timely, differentiated support based on their individual learning needs.

4. Students progress based on evidence of mastery, not seat time.

5. Students learn actively using different pathways and varied pacing.

6. Strategies to ensure equity for all students are embedded in the culture, structure, and pedagogy of schools and education systems.

7. Rigorous, common expectations for learning (knowledge, skills, and dispositions) are explicit, transparent, measurable, and transferable.

8. Students engage in Real World Learning experiences that support high school, college, career and workplace readiness.