This post is part of a series on the University of Maine at Presque Isle originally posted at CompetencyWorks in 2016.
During my visit to University of Maine at Presque Isle, I had the chance to meet with Scott Dobrin, an Assistant Professor of Biology,….. Read More
Locations: Maine
Angelica was a model student at KAPPA International. She had a good attitude, did her homework, always went for the extra credit, participated in class, and had a 90 in all of her classes. But then she failed the Earth Science Regents Exam…… Read More
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Locations: New York
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 Pittsfield Middle High School. It’s a comprehensive design: Keep “students at the center” using personalized learning strategies that build upon a competency-based infrastructure to ensure students master twenty-first century skills and demonstrate academic content and skills…… Read More
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Locations: New Hampshire
(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 that personalized learning and competency education go hand in hand. When personalizing education,….. Read More
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Locations: New Hampshire
(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 tackle is how do districts have to be transformed within a personalized, competency-based environment?
In preparing to transform the Pittsfield Middle and High School to a personalized,….. Read More
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Locations: New Hampshire
(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 systems to student-centered systems. Below are a handful of insights shared by the Pittsfield School District leadership team about their redesign process and the challenges they are encountering…… Read More
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Locations: New Hampshire
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 was reminded of it when it was selected as a play by a school serving nearly 100 percent Maori and Pasifika students…… Read More
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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.
One of the reasons I believe D51 is going to be successful in implementing performance-based learning is that they already have a 100 percent strategy in place,….. Read More
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Locations: Colorado
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 of how difficult it is to convey the core concepts of competency education without falling down a rabbit hole of misconceptions rooted in the beliefs that drive the traditional system…… Read More
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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. As we walked through the campus,….. Read More
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Locations: New Zealand
All the photos of students actively engaged in learning were used in the original blogs on CompetencyWorks. They are courtesy of Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for American Education: Images of Teachers and Students in Action.
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