What Is Competency-Based Education? An Updated Definition
This report updates the field’s 2011 working definition of competency-based education, which helped to build the field…
Pathways, Pacing, and Agency Are Intertwined
This is the third post in a series about the Chugach School District in Alaska. Links to…
Supporting Deeper Learning Through High-Quality Internship Projects
My recent CompetencyWorks post focused on helping schools facilitate deep, authentic student learning through real-world projects. This…
What Do You Mean When You Say “Student Agency”?
This article is the first part of a two-part series exploring student agency as it has been…
Strategies for Building Student Ownership of Their Learning
This is the fifth post in a series about the Eastern Carver County Public Schools in Minnesota….
Flexible Scheduling, Supports, and Monitoring at Pioneer Ridge Middle School
This is the fourth post in a series about the Eastern Carver County Public Schools in Minnesota….
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…