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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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
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.
Feel free to leave questions or suggested resources in comments.
The next 2 hours is for you…… 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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“What is honors? We realized that it wasn’t more work, or faster. It was deeper learning, something all students should have access to.”
– Jennifer Gay, Personalized Learning Project Manager, Luella High School, Henry County School District, GA, 2016
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Competency-based education supports students to not only learn academic content,….. Read More
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“From day one, I have always shared with our staff that we can approach and reach our mission and vision a thousand different ways, but we can not have a thousand different mission and visions…we will always have one. We are all committed to our mission and vision,….. Read More
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I have never been a teacher. Thus, I don’t write very much about instruction and assessment as my knowledge base is about the size of a raindrop compared to the sea of knowledge that teachers tap into every day. I simply don’t have enough knowledge to know where to focus or the types of questions to ask…… Read More
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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 using the EPIC model.
The EPIC North school design is best explained by the students themselves…… Read More
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Locations: New York
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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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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