Increase Opportunity for Student Success through Multiple Pathways to Graduation
Multiple pathways are an important element of personalized learning environments because they create distinct, equally-rigorous paths for…
Nineteen Districts in Idaho Start the Journey to Mastery-Based Learning
Last week, Superintendent Sherri Ybarra announced the twenty districts/schools that will launch Idaho’s Mastery Education Network (IMEN)….
Proficiency-Based High School Diploma Systems in Maine
I toured the state of Maine last fall to try to understand what was happening in districts,…
Blast Off with the Assessment for Learning Grantees
With ESSA upon us, we are all hurrying to get our heads wrapped around what is possible…
An Opportunity in ESSA for Performance Assessment Literacy and Teacher Leadership
The hope of ESSA is that it will offer a rebalancing for our nation’s accountability principles by…
Moving from Seat-Time to Competency-Based Credits in State Policy: Ensuring All Students Develop Mastery
School leaders find once they begin to optimize their instructional models using anytime, anywhere learning, state policies…
Florida and Utah Look to Support Districts through Competency-Based Education Pilots
This post originally appeared at iNACOL on March 29, 2016. Recently, iNACOL published a piece on competency-based…
Competency-Based Education Task Forces: A State Policy Mechanism to Foster Personalized Learning by Creating Dialog, Surfacing Barriers and Providing Solutions
This post originally appeared at iNACOL on March 23, 2016. Transitioning from a traditional seat time based…
Colorado Commissioner Rich Crandall on Bringing Personalized Learning Mainstream
“My goal is that a few years from now, every student in Colorado that wants to learn…
Innovation Zones: Creating Policy Flexibility for Personalized Learning
State policy makers have an opportunity to provide a pathway that enables personalized, competency-based learning by creating…