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Redesign at Pittsfield School District (Part 1)

Chris Sturgis March 21, 2019 No Comments

This article was originally published on CompetencyWorks in 2014. It was a delight to visit Pittsfield School District (PSD) to learn about the redesign of the district starting with the…

Hand in Hand: Pittsfield Integrates Personalized Learning and Competency Education

Chris Sturgis March 21, 2019 No Comments

(This is the second in a series about Pittsfield. The article was originally published in 2014 at CompetencyWorks.) One of my big takeaways from my visit to New Hampshire is…

Pittsfield Rethinks Adult Roles (Part 3)

Chris Sturgis March 21, 2019 No Comments

(This is the third part of a series on Pittsfield. The article was originally published at CompetencyWorks in 2014.) One of the big questions that we have barely begun to…

Implementation Insights from Pittsfield School District (Part 4)

Chris Sturgis March 21, 2019 No Comments

(This is the last of a four-part series on Pittsfield.The original article was published on CompetencyWorks in 2014.) That’s a constant refrain when talking to districts converting from traditional curriculum/time-based…

Is There a Goldilocks Principle for Modernizing Schools?

Chris Sturgis March 11, 2019 No Comments

The chairs! Too big, too small! And one was just right. The porridge! Too hot, too cold! And one was just right. We all know the story of Goldilocks. (I…

R5 High School: Abuzz with Learning

Chris Sturgis March 1, 2019 No Comments

This article is part of a series Designing Performance-Based Learning at D51 series originally published at ComepetencyWorks in March 2017. A reminder: D51 uses the phrase performance-based learning or P-BL.…

CBE at Harvard

Chris Sturgis February 21, 2019 No Comments

What fun it was to gather together at Harvard University Graduate School of Education for a conversation on competency-based education. It was also truly humbling to once again be reminded…

Designing Schools So Students Want to Learn

Chris Sturgis February 18, 2019 No Comments

This is the fourth article in a four-part series on Swannanoa School in New Zealand. Start here. The team at Swannanoa School understand that learning starts with engaging and motivating activities.…

PhenoBL, the Next Branded Learning Initiative?

Chris Sturgis February 13, 2019 No Comments

Finland will become the first country in the world to get rid of all school subjects! The headline certainly caught my attention. I’ve been increasingly thinking that we need to…

EPIC North: Changing the Educational Trajectories of Black and Latino Young Men

Chris Sturgis February 12, 2019 No Comments

The following is a compilation of my two visits to EPIC North in NYC in 2014-16. The series was originally published at CompetencyWorks For about two years, I spent an…

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