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 increased these calls for help. Most everyone has read the CompetencyWorks blogs, they’ve tackled a few of the books that have been written,….. 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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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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Do you give grades when you give quizzes? Do you start a class by going over homework? Do you end class by teaching all the way to the bell?
If so, then Neuroteach: Brain Science and the Future of Education is for you. Because those 3 practices are on the authors’….. Read More
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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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What is your shared understanding of how children and adults learn that guides your school culture, design, instruction, and assessment?
I’ve been developing a series of virtual seminars (ready to go by February 1st if you are interested) to help teams in districts and schools expedite the process of understanding of what it means to modernize our education system…… Read More
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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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