Showcase, Share, Inspire: Performance-Based Assessment and Competency-Based Learning in Chicago Public Schools
This year, Dr. Ginger Reynolds from EdSystems, a division of Northern Illinois University, and Sonjanita Moore from…
Equitable Grading at Sunnyside
This blog post was originally published on June 14, 2023 as part of the storytelling series from…
Empowering Community Progress: Integrating Open Principles in Education
Education plays a pivotal role in driving community progress, development, and local democracy. In our upcoming book,…
From Good to Great, Initial to Ideal: A Way to Improve Exhibitions and Other Performance Assessments
Several things brought me back to this post by Adam Watson about bringing performance assessments from good...
The Shift In Action: Five Takeaways From Our Journey Towards A Competency-Based System
We want to be really clear. We haven’t implemented competency-based education into all learning experiences or classrooms,…
What’s New in K-12 Competency-Based Education?
As spring begins to bloom, bring along this selection of learner-centered, competency-based resources and research from the…
Advice from the Field: Initiating, Sustaining, and Scaling Personalized, Competency-Based Learning
During the 2020-2021 school year, my colleagues, Dr. Emily Difani and Dr. Sarah Moran, and I…
Equitable Grading Anchors NYC’s New Grading Policy Toolkit
New York City Public Schools signaled important learner-centered shifts in grading practices with its new Grading Policy…
Top Ten <em>Competency</em>Works Blog Posts of 2022
This post looks back on the most-read 2022 CompetencyWorks blog posts by ten different authors. We didn’t…
Building a Competency-Based Teacher Education Program: The High Meadows Experience, Part 2
In my first blog post, I introduced the principles and structure of High Meadows Graduate School of…