Back to Basics: Assessment for Learning
Maine’s Center for Best Practices is building up a resource center that can help principals and educators…
Put On Your Creative Hat When Thinking About Proficiency-Based Grading
Every day there seems to be one more webinar on grading. This is great that more information…
Unleashed to Learn: Book Highlights Performance Assessment
A new book by Linda C. Aronson, Unleashed to Learn: Empowering Students to Learn at Full Capacity,…
Assessment All the Time? Why Not?
When talking with people who are not educators, I often think of Fannee Doollee, a character from…
What Gets Measured Gets Done
Do you find the topic of assessments befuddling at times? I certainly do. But I’ve dedicated myself…
Our Competency-Based System Has Changed the Face of IEP Meetings
Carter’s Story This past week I had the privilege of attending an IEP meeting for Carter, a…
Productivity and Progress
In the report Making Mastery Work: A Close-Up View of Competency Education, the authors highlight four findings…
Question Making
There is something a bit magical about the transformation from time-based/A-F structures to competency-based education. Over and…
Competency-Based Learning and FLVS
Competency based learning has its origins in the business world. High school graduates who decide to become…
A GPS for Competency Education
We are now starting to see whole networks of schools move towards competency education. The Asia Society,…