NSBA Report Misses Mark on High Quality Online Education
The National School Boards Association’s (NSBA) recent report on virtual learning seems to reference and regurgitate bullet points…
Art and Science of Designing Competencies
Greetings everyone! We just wanted to let you know about our first working paper — the working…
Mastery – Putting Learning Before Grades
I work with a team of people that submitted a letter of intent to the New Mexico…
Autonomy, Apples, and Oranges
What have you learned about how to work with districts in introducing competency-based schools–and what district leaders…
Is a Standard a Competency? (Part 2)
Read Part 1 or take a look at New Hampshire’s ELA and Math Competencies Following up on…
Juggling Frogs
Read the first post on Spaulding High School. Organizational change is always a case of juggling frogs….
Blowing Up K-12?
It seems sacrilegious, really, but I am advocating that we do away with the K-12 grade level…
Spaulding High Holds the Spirit of Competency Education
Read more about Spaulding High School. Traveling to Amherst, Massachusetts, for the Proficiency-Based Pathways meeting and a…
Is a Standard a Competency? (Part 1)
Read Part 2. Here are links to NH math competencies and ELA competencies The answer simply is…
Welcome to CompetencyWorks: Why We are Here
Over the last two years, I have been on a journey to try to make right what…