Flipping the Script on Schooling: A CBE Reading List
Thanks for all the support and encouragement about Wired for Brilliance [working title]. Sydney and I still have a ways to go to get it published. I also received a…
Category: Understanding Competency Education
Digging Through the Archives (and Finding Some Old Friends)
Ooh, the life of the digital world. It lives on and on—until it’s buried under the daily production of nearly half a zettabyte (whatever that unimaginably large number actually is)…
What Do We Know About CBE Through Evaluations?
This is an updated article originally published in 2019. Where’s the beef? Are you old enough to remember the Wendy’s slogan? It’s now a more general question about the value…
What Do High Quality CBE Alternative Schools Look Like?
This is an initial cut on this question. It’s a topic that hasn’t been adequately researched….yet. I’ll update as people share ideas and resources. Feel free to jump ahead to find…
CBE in the News
Competency-based education has been getting attention in the mainstream media. First the Wall Street Journal did an indepth look at the growing interest in CBE and spoke with several leading…
What I Missed (Or Even Got Wrong)
“You think we are smart?” blurted one of the 6th graders. Two other heads swiveled around to listen. “I’m not!” declared one. “Why do you think we are smart?” asked…
What Will Students Experience in a Competency-Based School?
What will students experience in a competency-based school? Below are a set of examples of experiences that every student should have in a well-developed personalized, competency-based system that was developed…
Making Sense of the Research on Learning
A colleague scoffed the other day when I mentioned science of learning. It was the word ‘science” that drew the reaction as science had been used to harm people of…
Laying the Foundation with Culture and Climate
This article is the sixth in the Designing Performance-Based Learning at D51 series. A reminder: D51 uses the phrase performance-based learning or P-BL. The first of District 51’s five phases…
Noble High School: Creating Timely, Differentiated Supports
If we gave out awards at CompetencyWorks, I’d give Noble High School an award for the fourth element of the CompetencyWorks definition of competency education: Students receive timely, differentiated support…