A Big District Strategy for Implementing Competency-Based Education
Commitment counts. It seems to make a difference when school boards and district/school leadership make a commitment…
A Paradigm is a World of Circumscribed Tools, Rules, and Problems
The task of this blog series, laid out in the first entry, is to analyze the struggles…
Creating a Peer Coaching Program to Grow Student-Centered Learning (Part 2)
This post originally appeared at Students at the Center on January 2, 2018. Read Part 1 here. In part…
We Are in the Midst of a Historic Paradigm Shift in Education
Why is it that the state of education today is so driven by discord and disagreement about…
Personalized, Competency-Based Education for English Language Learners
Designing new learning environments based on ensuring every student reaches mastery of the knowledge, skills and dispositions…
Practicing What They Preach: Micro-Credentialing at Kettle Moraine
This article is part of a series on personalized, proficiency-based education in Wisconsin and the eighth in…
Moving Forward with the Science of Learning
Deadlines do matter. They get us to focus our attention to put in the time and effort…
An Equity Framework for Competency-Based Education
This is the eleventh post in the blog series on the report, Quality and Equity by Design:…
A Growing Movement: Behind the Shift to Competency-Based Diplomas
Why We Must Reconsider the High School Diploma By at least one important metric, American education appears…
Creating a Peer Coaching Program to Grow Student-Centered Learning (Part 1)
This post originally appeared at Students at the Center on December 15, 2017. In southern Maine, the…