RETHINK: Planning and Designing for K-12 Next Generation Learning
This toolkit from Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) and the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL)…
Getting Your Feet Wet Reading List
The question came up the other day, what are the best 2-3 short readings for someone that…
Competencies For Competency Education?
With the help of our Advisory Board, Susan Patrick and I have been trying to sketch out…
Put On Your Creative Hat When Thinking About Proficiency-Based Grading
Every day there seems to be one more webinar on grading. This is great that more information…
Site Visit Takeaways
As you may know, ACHIEVE has established a Competency-Based Pathways Work Group to examine how competency education…
Leadership in a Competency-Based System
At what point did leading a school through a continuous improvement process become so confusing? In my…
Need Your Help On FAQ: Non-academic Competencies?
I am receiving an increasing number of emails from people that have questions about competency-, proficiency-, mastery-,…
Think Swiss Cheese
I think about design a lot. Indeed, Fast Company is a monthly read. Design is an empowering,…
To Dream the Impossible Dream?
In the NCLB era of disaggregated student achievement data, we have zoomed in on our population of…
Mastery Learning
Competency education didn’t just pop out of the woodwork as a new reform. It’s been built upon…