This is the fourth post in a series on Mastery Education in Idaho. Links to the other articles in the series can be found below.
Kuna School District in Idaho established Initial Point High School eight years ago because it believes that every student has the “potential to be successful socially and academically if they choose the correct environment and apply themselves.” Initial Point,….. Read More
Locations: Idaho
This is the third post in a series on Mastery Education in Idaho. Links to the other articles in the series can be found below.
During my visit to Synergy at Kuna Middle School, the conversation with Kelly Brady, Idaho Department of Education;….. Read More
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Locations: Idaho
This is the tenth article in the series on Mastery Education in Idaho. Links to the other articles can be found below.
Oh, there is so much to learn in Idaho. Where to start?
1) Learning from others and making it your own…… Read More
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Locations: Idaho
High school is a lot of things…and one of those things is that it is one long four year old game based on the rules set for grading. Students can get points added or subtracted for behaviors. At some schools they might get more points for taking an AP course…… Read More
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It continues to be a pleasure to read the story of Chugach School District’s journey of transformation described in Delivering on the Promise: The Education Revolution (DeLorenzo, Battino, Schreiber, and Carrio, 2009). Even though the term competency-based education is not mentioned once in the book,….. Read More
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I just heard that Westminster (formerly Adams 50) Public School’s superintendent Pamela Swanson has been picked as the 2020 Superintendent of the Year by the Colorado Association of School Executives. Congrats! It’s wonderful to see Swanson (and her team’s) leadership recognized. They’ve been working at developing a personalized,….. Read More
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Word is that iNACOL is finally going to announce a new name at next week’s Symposium in Palm Springs. Thank goodness. It’s been challenging for the field to have one of the biggest gatherings to happen under an umbrella of online learning. It’s made it much more difficult for us to talk about technology as a tool not a solution when one of the leading organizations in competency education emphasizes online delivery modes…… Read More
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I’m delighted to announce that The Mastery Transcript Consortium (MTC) just released a theory of action paper: “Getting Our Signals Straight for Students.”
Katherine Casey and I worked with MTC on this paper to help them be able to communicate their big bold vision for creating a new transcript that captures students’….. Read More
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If you are just starting out or are midway in your process of making the transition to personalized, mastery learning, it might help you to read Quality Principles for Competency-Based Education. If you are in planning stages, be sure to read the first section, which is a primer on competency-based education including the flaws in the traditional system…… Read More
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Are you interested in learning about New Zealand’s education system but don’t have the time or resources to visit? I’ve organized my articles on my visit in 2018 to make it easy for you to get a quick picture of what you might learn if you were able to visit yourself…… Read More
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Locations: New Zealand
All the photos of students actively engaged in learning are courtesy of Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for American Education: Images of Teachers and Students in Action.
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