What Beliefs are the Bedrock of Your Competency-Based System?
We believe…Students need to learn academic knowledge, the skills to apply it, and the lifelong learning skills…
Promising Practices for Teaching English Language Learners
This post originally appeared at iNACOL on January 2, 2018. It is the third blog in a series that explores the…
AASA Explores Competency-Based Education Grading
The focus of the February AASA Administrator is on what they refer to on the cover as “performance-based…
Looking Ahead: Realizing the Promise of Next Generation Learning Models for English Language Learners
The case studies presented in the previous blogs illustrate how schools and education programs have begun to…
The Learning Sciences: Two Perspectives
In recent years, there has been a lot more talk in Education about the science of learning….
Differentiation to Mass Customization: Same Goal, Different Eras
If there is one example that best exemplifies the paradigm shift from industrial to information eras, it…
Moving from Current Models of Teaching English Language Learners to New Learning Models Designed to Meet the Needs of All Students
This post originally appeared at iNACOL on December 18, 2017. It is the second blog in a series that…
Grades, College Admission, and Competency-Based Education
There’s a great quick read in the February AASA School Administrator on standards-based grading and the college admissions…
February 2018 CompetencyWorks Catch-Up
Here are the highlights from February 2018 on CompetencyWorks. Happy reading. And let us know if you…
Charting the Course for the Next Phase of Competency-Based Education: Strengthening Understanding
This is the eighteenth post in the blog series on the report, Quality and Equity by Design:…