Reflecting on The Field of Competency Education: Organizations and Literature
In the first part of this reflection, we focused on where we started and where we are…
What’s New in K-12 Competency Education?
This VUE article, written by Scott F. Marion, Jonathan Vander Els, and Paul Leather, looks at how…
What Does It Mean to Meet Students Where They Are?
This post first appeared on CompetencyWorks on June 15, 2017. This is the twelfth blog in a…
Incredible Opportunities for Learning and Networking at the iNACOL2017 Pre-Conference
Each year the competency education strand expands at the iNACOL Symposium, and the sessions for iNACOL2017 are…
Five Examples of Effective School Communication Strategies, on Five Different Platforms
This post originally appeared on KnowledgeWorks’ site, here. Communicating effectively to people throughout your school district presents…
Charting the Course for High Quality Personalized, Competency Education
This post first appeared on CompetencyWorks on June 14, 2017. This is the eleventh blog in a series for…
Competency Education and the Complicated Task of Communicating
Did you see that competency education (the same as mastery-based education) was mentioned in the New York…
Alternative Credentials are Reshuffling the Higher Education Deck
This post originally appeared at the Christensen Institute on July 25, 2017. “Hard problems often solve themselves,…
Supporting Educators as Ambassadors for Mastery-Based Learning
“Teachers tell us ‘we know so much more about supporting students, it would feel like malpractice to…
How Could We Build a Shared Understanding of Quality in Competency Education?
This post first appeared on CompetencyWorks on June 14, 2017. This is the tenth blog in a…