Insights into Implementation – Page 2

Questions, Questions and More Questions

Chris Sturgis March 11, 2020 No Comments

I receive questions along the way from different colleagues, clients and people trying to find their way through personalized, competency-based education. Last week I had a chance to speak with…

FAQ: What if a child is unable to reach the mastery level?

Chris Sturgis March 11, 2020 No Comments

What if a child is unable to reach the mastery level? What do you think can be CBE’s negative impact on a child’s self-efficacy? These are one of these types…

FAQ: What is the role of summative assessment?

Chris Sturgis March 11, 2020 No Comments

What is the role of summative assessment? Such a good question. I didn’t have an answer to this until I visited Champlain Valley Unified High School (CVU) on behalf of…

FAQ: What countries are implementing competency-based education?

Chris Sturgis March 11, 2020 No Comments

What countries are implementing competency-based education? Is there any insight into the cultures that are more aligned with it? This question isn’t easy to answer in that the term “competency…

FAQ: How to create a community of learners when students are at different levels?

Chris Sturgis March 10, 2020 No Comments

How do teachers manage a community of learners when students are all at different levels? This is a question that comes up a lot because it is so hard to…

How Innovations Flourish: Competency-Based Education in US and New Zealand

Chris Sturgis March 2, 2020 No Comments

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…

Still Learning from Delivering on the Promise

Chris Sturgis January 6, 2020 No Comments

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…

Congrats to Dr. Swanson

Chris Sturgis November 22, 2019 No Comments

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.…

What’s Your Framework? Your Competency Framework?

Chris Sturgis August 16, 2019 No Comments

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…

EPIC Schools: Putting Young Men of Color in the Center of the Design (Part 1)

Chris Sturgis June 1, 2019 No Comments

This series on Epic North High School, originally published at CompetencyWorks, was based on site visits in 2014 and 2016. See also South Bronx Community High School for another school…

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