Promising State Policies
There are those who say we shouldn’t be trying to define personalization because it will inhibit innovation…
A Conversation with the Two Mikes from Montpelier
The New England Secondary School Consortium’s March conference is becoming a must-go meeting for me – as…
South Carolina Overview
It’s hard to stay on top of all fifty states now that district-wide and whole school competency-based…
Promising State Policies for Personalized Learning
The passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in December 2015, which reauthorized the Elementary and…
Proficiency-Based High School Diploma Systems in Maine
I toured the state of Maine last fall to try to understand what was happening in districts,…
Blast Off with the Assessment for Learning Grantees
With ESSA upon us, we are all hurrying to get our heads wrapped around what is possible…
An Opportunity in ESSA for Performance Assessment Literacy and Teacher Leadership
The hope of ESSA is that it will offer a rebalancing for our nation’s accountability principles by…
Competency-Based Education Task Forces: A State Policy Mechanism to Foster Personalized Learning by Creating Dialog, Surfacing Barriers and Providing Solutions
This post originally appeared at iNACOL on March 23, 2016. Transitioning from a traditional seat time based…
11 Strategic Policy Priorities to Support Personalized, Competency-Based Learning
Creating learner-centered, personalized, competency-based environments requires strong leadership and a shift in culture and values to move…
Competency-Based Education Task Forces: A State Policy Mechanism to Foster Personalized Learning by Creating Dialog, Surfacing Barriers and Providing Solutions
Transitioning from a traditional seat time based system to a competency-based learning system often requires changes at…