Sharing the Pulpit
In practice, we at Big Picture Learning work directly with communities and schools across the country (and…
Slaying the Dragon: A Conversation with Cory Woolstenhulme on Mastery-Based Learning
This is the eighth post in a series on Mastery Education in Idaho. Links to the other…
Shaking up Credentialing: An Emergent Strategy
This post originally appeared at 2Revolutions on July 17, 2018. “We can’t find teachers ready for our…
What if… We Had Graduate Profiles for Elementary and Middle School?
There is more and more attention to the development of high school graduate profiles at the district…
ACT, Leader in Measurement, Shifts Focus to Student Success
This post originally appeared at Getting Smart on June 19, 2018. For nearly 60 years, the ACT test has…
What’s Happening with Competency-Based Transcripts and Rethinking College Admissions in the United States
This post originally appeared at iNACOL on June 11, 2018. What are competency-based transcripts, and why are…
Helpful Tools for Providing Effective Competency-Based Education
This post originally appeared at Getting Smart on June 18, 2018. We’ve been looking into what schools,…
Stealing a Page from Disruption to Transform Accreditation
This post originally appeared at the Christensen Institute on June 15, 2018. One of the only things…
How Do the Learning Sciences Drive Learning in Your School and District?
Two weeks ago, iNACOL/CompetencyWorks released the paper Levers and Logic Models. There are lots of interesting ideas…
A National Landscape Scan of Personalized Learning in K-12 Education in the United States
This publication provides findings from a national survey of teachers and students to underscore how, and to what…