competency-based learning

What Will Students Experience in a Competency-Based School?

Chris Sturgis June 27, 2020 No Comments

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…

Supporting Teachers at D51: A Conversation with the Professional Learning Facilitators

Chris Sturgis June 23, 2020 No Comments

This article is the seventh in the Designing Performance-Based Learning at D51 series. A reminder: D51 uses the phrase performance-based learning or P-BL. Leigh Grasso, Director of Academic Achievement &…

Making Sense of the Research on Learning

Chris Sturgis June 21, 2020 No Comments

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…

Key Findings: Science of Learning and Development

Chris Sturgis June 21, 2020 No Comments

Although the high level findings of the science of learning often seem like common sense, the interplay between the different domains of research isn’t as simple. And we know that…

Laying the Foundation with Culture and Climate

Chris Sturgis June 21, 2020 No Comments

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

Chris Sturgis June 2, 2020 No Comments

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…

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…

Waukesha STEM Academy: Personalizing Instruction and Learning Experiences (Part 2)

Chris Sturgis June 1, 2020 1 Comment

This article, originally posted at CompetencyWorks is based on site visits in 2017 on personalized, proficiency-based education in Wisconsin. Many people describe WSA as a STEM school or as a…

Waukesha STEM Academy: Rethinking Space, Time, and Reporting (Part 3)

Chris Sturgis June 1, 2020 1 Comment

This article, originally posted at CompetencyWorks is based on site visits in 2017 on personalized, proficiency-based education in Wisconsin. “Once you get a new iPhone, you can’t go back to…

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…

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