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…
Tying It Together with Performance Assessments
During the past year, Memorial Elementary School staff has focused our learning on how to develop high…
What’s New in Competency Education
There seems to be more reports, articles and advancements in competency education than ever before. Periodically we’ll…