Dear Colleagues: CompetencyWorks
is posting a series on McComb School District in Mississippi that is on a path
toward personalized learning. McComb is one of the few districts that is
currently implementing personalized learning, competency-based education and
blended learning simultaneously. - Personalizing
the Learning in McComb, Mississippi
- McComb’s Six
Pillars of Student-Centered Learning
- McComb’s
Strategic Planning Begins with the Community
- Piloting Change
in McComb
- Empowering
Scholars at McComb’s Summit Elementary
- Starting
with the Kindergarteners in McComb
- Starting the
Journey to CBE at Otken Elementary School
- Supporting
Practitioners in McComb
CompetencyWorks
published Designing for Equity: Leveraging
Competency-Based Education to Ensure All Students Succeed, which offers a framework of strategies for
personalized, competency-based education to ensure a more equitable K-12
education system. Districts and schools can use the principles within this
report to develop an equity agenda within their personalized, competency-based
systems. An example of how districts can drive toward equity is described by Joe
Ellison, principal at Martha Layne Collins High School. He discusses using
intentional practices in hiring staff for the purpose of cultural
responsiveness in Hiring for Cultural
Responsiveness – A Necessary Consideration. Kathleen McClaskey, founder of Make Learning Personal, has a written a three-part blog series that
explores how the Universal Design for Learning can strengthen teaching and
reinforce a culture where every learner feels valued and can be successful. - Understanding
the Pedagogy of a Learning Science to Nurture an Inclusive Learning Culture
- Discover the Learner – Building the Skills of
Agency and Self-Advocacy using the UDL Lens
- Understanding and Meeting Learners Where They
Are using the UDL Lens
Chris Sturgis, MetisNet Susan Patrick, iNACOL Natalie Abel, iNACOL
CompetencyWorks
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