Changing our Bumper-Sticker Message: My Student is More Proficient Than Your Student!
On a recent walk, I was stopped by my neighbor who had a complaint about her son’s…
Educator Pay in a Competency-Based System
How do we pay facilitators (teachers) in a Competency Based System? This is a question that naturally…
The Treacherous(?) Road to E-Learning
The following piece by Susan Patrick appeared this week on National Journal’s Education Experts Blog: Tom Vander…
Competency-Based Instruction & Assessment: Building the Framework
As the Rochester School District embarks upon its K-12 Full-Competency Based System of Instruction and Assessment, we…
Re-Learning and Reassessment
While that last planning year was filled with excitement and adventure, we hadn’t anticipated the journey that…
Using Competencies as a Blue Print to Personalize Learning
The following was written by Brian M. Stack, Principal; Michael Turmelle, Assistant Principal / Curriculum; Ann Hadwen,…
21st Century Learning, At All Levels
Last Friday, Mark Edmundson, an English professor at The University of Virginia, wrote a scathing critique of online…
Where Do End-of-Course Exams Fit In?
Anyone deep in competency education is probably getting a lot of calls from around the country asking…
A Key Support For Students: Supporting Adult Learning for the Sake of Learning
There is a fairly settled body of research that links the quality of the teacher to the…
Responding to Each Student’s Needs and Interests
What would an education system look like that responded to each student’s needs and interests – and…