What’s Your Dream Grading Tool? NYC Educators State Their Must-Haves
What is your dream mastery-based grading tool? This design challenge drew a roomful of educators from twenty…
Setting the PACE: Teacher Assessment Practices in a Competency-Based Education System
I continue to be amazed and impressed by our staff’s progress over the past five years related…
How Do You Measure Competency? Curriculum Can Help Guide the Way
Competency-based education is not about reformation – it is about transformation. Old processes and models of teaching…
Competency-Based Education: Faculty Goals and Student Grades
This post originally appeared at Next Generation Learning Challenges on March 12, 2015. I’m working with the faculty in…
Warning: Delayed Graduation Possible
This post originally appeared at the Foundation for Excellence in Education on February 23, 2015. MINIMUM GROWTH…
How Can I Tell if a School is Using Performance Assessments?
Project-based learning, problem-based learning, projects, tasks, performance tasks, performance assessments… When visiting schools over the last several…
In Search of the Goldilocks Scale
We have learned a lot over the past five years as our district has implemented a competency-based…
Chugach School District’s Performance-Based Infrastructure
This is the second post in the Chugach School District series. Read the first post here. I’ve…
A Construction Kit for Personalized Assessment of Competency-Based Learning
This post originally appeared December 15, 2014 at Q.E.D. Foundation. “What Changes in the Learner Are You Trying…
EPIC Schools: Putting Young Men of Color in the Center of the Design (Part 1)
This article is part of a series of case studies of schools in New York City. Read…