Add Hire Education to Your Summer Reading List
Leaders in higher education and K12 should take the time to read Hire Education: Mastery, Modularization, and…
Challenges and Solutions in Creating a Learner Improvement Cycle for Personalized Mastery
In our previous entry, we foreshadowed the need for learner involvement in all aspects of the Learner…
Four Pitfalls to Implementing Personalized Mastery: The Culture
The journey to a personalized learning system is fraught with pitfalls and hurdles. Can you get your…
Learners Rule
I took a few hours out from gardening yesterday to dive into Learners Rule by Bill Zima,…
Does Competency Education Mean the Same Thing for K-12 and Higher Education?
Over the past two months, I’ve had several invitations to discuss the intersection of higher education (HE)…
Reflections on Competency-Based and Blended Learning
Originally posted June 4, 2014 by Education Elements Last week, Justin DeLeon and I attended the…
Step Two: Picture It
One of the first things teachers and teams ask for when we begin talking about student-centered proficiency-based…
Three Steps for Personalizing Assessment
Why do we always assess students at the same time and let that be the governing factor…
Step 1: Separate The Baby From the Bathwater
Consider this moment: I’m sitting in a summer planning session with a team of teachers from different…
The Journey to a Personal Mastery System
Originally published in the Reinventing Schools Coalition May newsletter It all starts with an essential question. What…