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 based on their individual learning needs.
In fact, the school is designed around providing multiple support strategies,….. Read More
Locations: Maine
This post is part of the series Road Trip to Maine. This is the fourth of a four-part look at Casco Bay High School. Read Tips and Takeaways (Part 1), Learning as Exploration (Part 2), The What and HOW of Learning, and We Will Shape our School by our Learning (Part 4). ….. Read More
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Locations: Maine
This post is part of the series Road Trip to Maine. This is the second of a four-part look at Casco Bay High School. Read Tips and Takeaways (Part 1), Learning as Exploration (Part 2), The What and HOW of Learning, and We Will Shape our School by our Learning (Part 4)…… Read More
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Locations: Maine
This is the seventh post in a series on Mastery Education in Idaho. Links to the other articles in the series can be found below.
Throughout the conversations during the site visit to Columbia High School, there were many important insights. Principal Cory Woolstenhulme reflected,….. Read More
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Locations: Idaho
This is the eighth post in a series on Mastery Education in Idaho. Links to the other articles in the series can be found below.
The conversation with Cory Woolstenhulme, principal of Columbia High School, was rich with insights. He is reflective and candid,….. Read More
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Locations: Idaho
This is the sixth post in a series on Mastery Education in Idaho. Links to the other articles in the series can be found below.
Columbia High School in the Nampa School District is the only comprehensive high school moving to personalized learning among the Idaho mastery-based learning pilots…… Read More
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Locations: Idaho
This is the fourth post in a series on Mastery Education in Idaho. Links to the other articles in the series can be found below.
Kuna School District in Idaho established Initial Point High School eight years ago because it believes that every student has the “potential to be successful socially and academically if they choose the correct environment and apply themselves.” Initial Point,….. Read More
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Locations: Idaho
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.
As with my first visit to EPIC North, the conversation started with students…… Read More
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Locations: New York
Angelica was a model student at KAPPA International. She had a good attitude, did her homework, always went for the extra credit, participated in class, and had a 90 in all of her classes. But then she failed the Earth Science Regents Exam…… Read More
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Locations: New York
The following is a compilation of my two visits to EPIC North in NYC in 2014-16. The series was originally published at CompetencyWorks
For about two years, I spent an hour every afternoon on the phone with a fourteen-year-old who was struggling to figure out what it meant to be himself,….. Read More
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Locations: New York
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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