This is the third article in a four-part series on Swannanoa School in New Zealand. Start here.
Each year, the team at Swannanoa School creates a new Manawa Line (heart line) that helps to recommit to the vision and goals…… Read More
Locations: New Zealand
IMS Global is reporting that progress is being made in creating the infrastructure to make badges (and I assume microcredentials) a viable way of communicating what you know and can do. There was a great panel by folks from Credly, Badgr and My Mantl on the efforts of the IMS workgroup Badge Connect API…… Read More
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I’m at the IMS Global Digital Credentials Summit and my head is spinning. Everything is competency. Employers are creating competencies for all their positions. They are struggling to develop skill frameworks that are robust enough to have several levels of knowledge and skills, flexible enough that employees can build and demonstrate knowledge and skills in multiple ways,….. Read More
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The following is the keynote at IMS Global Digital Credentials Summit.
In some ways, we are all here because we are stewards of our future. We are here — K12, higher ed, workforce development, employers — because we are all engaged in modernizing our education system and the overall workforce development system…… Read More
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This is the second article in a four-part series on Swannanoa School in New Zealand. Start here.
Swannanoa, like other schools in New Zealand, is expected to build strong relationships with the local iwi (tribe) as part of its accountability to the community and for upholding the Treaty of Waitangi…… Read More
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Here are the highlights from Learning Edge in January 2019. As always, let me know if you have questions you’d like me to delve into. Happy reading!
Hobsonville Point Secondary School
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This is the first article in a four-part series on Swannanoa School in New Zealand. You can also find articles on Hobsonville and Karori Normal School here.
At one point during my visit to Swannanoa School,….. Read More
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The series on Aotearoa New Zealand continues here with the second article on Karori Normal School.
The beauty of NZ’s National Curriculum is that can be tailored to any community. Everywhere I went in New Zealand, the principals all said the same thing…… Read More
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The series on Aotearoa New Zealand continues here with several articles on Karori Normal School.
Karori Normal School (KNS) was the first school I visited in New Zealand. (Normal refers to a relationship with a college of education to offer teaching opportunities and mentoring to student teachers.) As always,….. Read More
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Locations: New Zealand
The series on Aotearoa New Zealand continues here with the fourth article on Hobsonville Point Secondary School.
One of the questions I asked at every school I visited in New Zealand was how they developed the instructional & assessment capacity to support Overall Teacher Judgment,….. Read More
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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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