Personalizing Learning in an Alternative Arts High School
This is the second post in a series about the Eastern Carver County Public Schools in Minnesota….
Recognizing Outstanding Student Achievement in Competency-Based Schools
CompetencyWorks recently received this inquiry from an administrator of a school that was working to deepen its…
Activate Student Agency and Ownership in Competency-Based Education
This post first appeared on CompetencyWorks on November 26, 2018. What is student agency? The standard reply…
What Happens When You Really Listen? Student Voices and Reshaping Policy
This post originally appeared on EdWeek’s Next Gen Learning in Action blog on March 25, 2019. Educators…
Diversifying the Student Body and Personalizing Student Schedules at NYC iSchool
This is the second post in a series about the Mastery Collaborative in New York City. Links…
How Data Notebooks Can Support Goal-Setting and Student Agency in Elementary School
This is the final article in a nine-part “In Real Life” series based on the complex, fundamental…
Bless the Mess: A Teacher’s Reflection on Student Voice and Choice
“When I was in your class, I never felt like my voice or my opinions weren’t heard….
Competency-Based Education Quality Principle #7: Activate Student Agency and Ownership
This is the eighth article in a series based on the book Quality Principles for Competency-Based Education. You…
3 Tools to Engage Ownership in Your Classroom
It’s easy to say teachers should give students more ownership of their learning. It’s easy to say…
Quality Principles for Competency-Based Education
This book, developed with input involving practitioners as part of the National Summit on K-12 Competency-Based Education,…