Finding Your Entry Point to Mastery Learning
I receive a few emails every week from educators who want to find out how to get started down the path of competency-based education. The pandemic’s demand for flexibility has…
Category: Case Studies
How Innovations Flourish: Competency-Based Education in US and New Zealand
Competency-based education and its partner, personalized learning, are expanding across the U.S as well as in pockets of innovation around the world. Below are short case studies from schools in…
Virtual Visit to Aotearoa New Zealand
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…
Insights from Aotearoa New Zealand: Credentialing Learning
One of the key features of a competency-based system is a transparent framework of learning. Every school making the transition takes the time at some point in their transition process…
A Primer on the NZ Education System
There are lots of reasons to go to New Zealand. The beauty of the country is well known. Their national effort to create a multi-cultural nation that fully respects and…
UMPI: Eliminating Remediation
This post part of a series on the University of Maine at Presque Isle originally posted at CompetencyWorks in 2016. One of the most fascinating discussions that was woven throughout…
UMPI: Faculty Perspective
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…
Designing Schools So Students Want to Learn
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.…
EPIC North: Changing the Educational Trajectories of Black and Latino Young Men
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…
The Swannanoa School Design
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)…