Going Deeper or Going Further: Where Students Advance in Competency-Based Models
Originally posted Jan. 29, 2014 at The Christensen Institute. The crux of competency-based education is that students…
Last Week’s News on Competency Education
Here are a few highlights about competency education from last week! About K-12 The Washington Post interviewed…
Four Pitfalls to Implementing Personalized Mastery: The Culture
The journey to a personalized learning system is fraught with pitfalls and hurdles. Can you get your…
Performance-Based Assessments as a Tool for Building Lifelong Learning Competencies
I’m sharing this article on Laconia High School that was originally published in the Center for Secondary…
Schools and Software: What’s Now and What’s Next
This post originally appeared June 17, 2014 on EdSurge. “We’ve basically run our public schools off…
Learners Rule
I took a few hours out from gardening yesterday to dive into Learners Rule by Bill Zima,…
What Do We Mean by Completion?
I always save an hour or two on Friday afternoons to read about things I don’t know…
What’s New in Competency Education?
Here is a quick review of some of the great things happening or reported about in competency…
Does Competency Education Mean the Same Thing for K-12 and Higher Education?
Over the past two months, I’ve had several invitations to discuss the intersection of higher education (HE)…
What Is a Proficiency-Based Diploma?
By far, this news piece on Maine’s proficiency-based diploma is the best I’ve seen at explaining what…