We Need a Good Story
Sitting on the shores of Crystal Lake, my mother’s friends were clutching the edges of their beach…
Five Areas We Need to Get Right
Other than the schools that have been doing competency education for a decade, such as Diploma Plus…
Creating a Classroom Parking Lot
You can have all the best well-crafted assessments, lessons, targets, and reporting systems in your school, yet…
Process-Folios: Peeking Into A Student’s Head
What educator hasn’t wished they could get inside a student’s head – if even just for a…
Summertime Reading Part 4: Perspective for Teachers
Competency education is only as effective as the leaders and districts that implement it. The following are…
Pace Yourself: Restructuring Content In A Competency-Based Classroom
This post was first published by Blend My Learning on July 30, 2013. It has been reposted…
Summertime Reading Part 3: Principal’s Perspective
Incorporating competency education into a school or district is a challenging task. With so many facets and…
From PBL to PBI
What’s a project-based school to do? You’ve developed an incredibly powerful model that engages students through rich…
Not ‘Til the Dishes are Done: Childhood, Chores, and Constant Expectations
As with many children growing up in America, we had certain things we were expected to complete….
Summertime Reading Part 2: Case Studies
Ever wonder what specifically is happening in other schools that have incorporated competency education? Case studies are…