July CompetencyWorks Catch-Up

Here are the highlights from July 2016 on CompetencyWorks. Happy reading. And let us know if you have questions you want us to delve into!

SITE VISITS AND CASE STUDIES

Competency-Based Education Across America

Cumberland High School: Starting with Proficiency-Based Grading

Mastery-Based Learning in Connecticut

• Shaping Student-Centered Learning at Our Piece of the Pie

Mastering Mastery-Based Learning in NYC

• NYC Big Takeaways
• Catalyzing Mastery-Based Learning: NYC’s Mastery Collaborative
• The Young Women’s Leadership School of Astoria
• Flushing International’s Three Learning Outcomes: Habits, Language, and Academic Skills
• KAPPA International: The Story of Angelica

HIGHER EDUCATION

Organizing Around Competencies, Not Courses by John Milam

What’s New in Competency-Based Higher Education? by Natalie Abel

Harvard and Wellesley and Tufts, Oh My! (And Did I Mention MIT and Babson?)

EDUCATOR RESOURCES

What’s New in K-12 Competency Education? by Natalie Abel

Frequently Asked Questions

Insights from the RTT-D Personalized Learning Summit

REFLECTION

When Tears Don’t Stop Flowing

PRINCIPAL AND SUPERINTENDENT PERSPECTIVES

Student Ownership of Non-Curricular Cognitive Competencies by Jonathan Vander Els, Jill Lizier, and Terry Bolduc

POLICY UPDATES

Department of Education Proposes New Rules for ESSA’s Innovative Assessment Pilot

AROUND THE WEB

Christensen Institute

• Will Eliminating the “F” Eliminate Bad School Design? by Julia Freeland Fisher

Students at the Center

• Three Key Components of School-Community Engagement by John Freeman

Getting Smart

• Is it a Project or an Activity? Project-Based Learning and its Cousins by Tom Vander Ark and Bonnie Lathram
• Get the Culture Right: The Most Important New School Factor by Tom Vander Ark

Next Generation Learning Challenges

• Rethinking the Achievement Gap (Part 1) by Matt Riggan
• Rethinking the Achievement Gap (Part 2) by Matt Riggan