Getting Started and Scaling Competency-Based Education
Iowa is a state no longer content with the status quo perpetuated by an antiquated educational system….
Progress and Proficiency: Redesigning Grading for Competency Education
The purpose of this report is to explore how to redesign grading systems to best help students…
Competency Education: The Solution to Retention
Recently a group of teachers was working on performance tasks and assessments. They were aligning their units…
Data analytics in K-12 online learning – Guest blogger Dr. Joe Cozart
Dr. Joe Cozart is guest blogging today. Joe is the Associate Director of Strategic Planning at Georgia…
Proficiency-Based Education Meet-Up in Oregon
If you live in Oregon you should be putting March 6-7, 2014 on your calendar. The Confederation…
Is Mastery a 3 or a 4 or Something Far Beyond That?
We hear the critique of competency education occasionally as a linear, rigid, boring process of students learning…
APEX Academy: A Diploma Plus School
Earlier this year I had the opportunity to visit with Alfonzo Paz, Assistant Principal at Academic Performance…
Colorado Department of Education Research
In January 2013, the Colorado Department of Education presented to the iNACOL community about their research on…
How Competency-Based Grading Has NOT Changed Our School’s Transcript
My school district implemented a K-12 competency-based grading and reporting system four years ago. The implementation included…
Getting Up to Speed on Grading
We are getting ready to release a paper on competency-based grading in January. In the meantime, I…