Is Competency Education a Disruptive Innovation? The Answer is No
Once upon a time when Susan Patrick and I were just starting to understand the field of…
Three Perspectives on Personalization
Matt Riggan shares his perspective on the NGLC Bay Area convening, which took place in January 2015. This…
Pushing the Envelope with Student Centered Learning at VLACS
There are a handful of schools pushing past the concept of organizing learning based on credits to…
How Do You Measure Competency? Curriculum Can Help Guide the Way
Competency-based education is not about reformation – it is about transformation. Old processes and models of teaching…
Preparing Students for Life….Not Just College and Careers
This is the second post in a series on Lindsay Unified High School. Click here for the first,…
Shifting the Culture in Learner-Centered Environments
In 2012, the Maine Legislature passed into law LD1422, An Act to Prepare Maine People for the…
Never The First to Finish: Why Pace Matters
This post originally appeared at Getting Smart on January 30, 2015. Remember how it felt to be…
Negotiating Release
My husband and I have two dogs. Ollie is a springer spaniel; Tobey is a rather unfortunate…
On Perseverance in the Classroom
This post originally appeared at Students at the Center: Teaching and Learning in the Era of the…
When the Stars Align in Support of Learning . . .
This post originally appeared at the Foundation for Excellence in Education on December 8, 2014. There is…