Understanding Competency Education – Page 2

Steps Toward Maturity: Introducing the Concept of Student Autonomy (Part 2)

Chris Sturgis June 1, 2020 No Comments

In the first part of this series, I call for us to be strategic in how we communicate the concepts related to student agency to the general public while also…

Steps Toward Maturity: Making Meaning of the Mindsets and Skills for Student Agency (Part 1)

Chris Sturgis June 1, 2020 No Comments

Student agency is a phrase that is nearly impossible to use in everyday language and is certainly not a phrase that parents use to describe their children. “Look at the…

Shining the Competency Education Light on Education in the Time of Covid19

Chris Sturgis May 27, 2020 No Comments

Has Covid19 lifted the window of opportunity for a massive transformation of the education system? During several presentations on rethinking schools and the future of education, many of the speakers…

FAQ: Are graduate aims the same as competencies?

Chris Sturgis March 11, 2020 No Comments

Do you see graduate aims as roughly the same thing as competencies? Is it a nomenclature issue or a conceptual difference? What a good question! The answer is it depends.…

FAQ: When students have different learning journeys, won’t that lead to more inequity?

Chris Sturgis March 11, 2020 No Comments

Do students pass from one grade to another based on their mastery level? Does that mean every child would have a different learning journey that would not be based on…

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…

16 Quality Principles to Guide Implementation to Competency-Based Education

Chris Sturgis September 24, 2019 No Comments

If you are just starting out or are midway in your process of making the transition to personalized, mastery learning, it might help you to read Quality Principles for Competency-Based…

KY Competency Education and Assessment Consortium Pre-Reads and Resources

Chris Sturgis July 7, 2019 1 Comment

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…

Ten Flaws in the Traditional System

Chris Sturgis June 27, 2019 No Comments

The traditional system is simply not designed to produce the goals we have set for it, or that our children, communities and nation so desperately need and deserve. There are…

Ten Distinguishing Features of Competency-Based Education

Chris Sturgis June 26, 2019 No Comments

Across the country, schools, districts and states are replacing the traditional, time-based structure with one that is designed to help each student reach proficiency. Competency-based education is a system designed…

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