Performance-Based Assessment in Action
Originally posted May 16, 2014 at gettingsmart.com. For more on Danville’s overall approach see District Transformation in Danville….
Education Innovation Fellowship: Key Learnings from Some of Detroit’s Competency-Based Learning Models
Posted on April 29, 2014 @ blendmylearning.com. For the past four months, the 19 public and public…
Counted or Not, Doing What Counts in Competency-Based Education
“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” – William…
How a District Ended Student Dropouts with Personalized Learning
This post originally published on EdSurge. Author Roger Cook is the Superintendent of the Taylor County School…
District Transformation in Danville
I’m itching to go to Danville, Kentucky after listening to Superintendent Carmen Coleman on the webinar How…
Light at the End of the Tunnel
After finishing a round of site visits in New Hampshire and Colorado I had come to the…
Chewing on Learning Progressions: Some Food For Thought
One of the big pushes in our district (and many others throughout Maine) is customized learning: students…
Gateways, Not Grades
This is the second of a two-part series on Making Community Connections Charter School. Click here for…
Igniting Learning at the Making Community Connections Charter School
This is the first of a two-part series about Making Community Connections Charter School. Click here for…
Voices from the Field: Growth Mindset
We’ve been hearing a lot recently about the importance of these attributes through the work of Pink,…