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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There is a lot of framing to be done when you are moving towards modern schools. It’s not so different than putting in a new foundation, load bearing walls, and new windows when rehabbing a house.
The most important is the mindset frame — the one that is built on your beliefs about people,….. Read More
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The following are the slides and major talking points for Day Two at the Competency-Based Education Workshop.
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The next 2 hours is for you…… Read More
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The following are the slides and major talking points for Day One at the Competency-Based Education Workshop.
Feel free to leave questions or suggested resources in comments.
We designed these 2 days around three outcomes.
#1 Creating an understanding of competency-based education and assessment…… Read More
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Kentucky districts are gathering July 15-16 for a Competency-Based Education Workshop as part of the KY Competency Education and Assessment Consortium. We’ll be thinking about how to align districts and schools with the graduate profiles and the research on learning. We’ll dig into the flaws of the traditional system…… Read More
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Where’s the beef?
Are you old enough to remember the Wendy’s slogan? It’s now a more general question about the value of any idea. Although I am an advocate for personalized, competency-based education, I also think we should be asking Where’s the beef? . We need feedback to know if we are designing a system that is benefiting students…… 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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