Is Competency-Based Education Feasible Without a Guaranteed Viable Curriculum?
Competency-based education has gathered much energy and momentum across the nation during the past year, evidenced by…
Performance Assessment for Competency Education
On Monday August 11, 2014, leaders from our four NH PACE-implementing school districts gathered, along with our…
7 Ways State Policy Can Promote Competence
Originally posted Aug. 8, 2014 at Getting Smart. Since Horace borrowed the idea from the Prussians, we’ve…
Mindsets and Student Agency
Originally published in the Spring 2013 issue of Unboxed, a publication of High Tech High Deeper learning…
Schools and Software: What’s Now and What’s Next
This post originally appeared June 17, 2014 on EdSurge. “We’ve basically run our public schools off…
Interested in Innovative School Models? What to Consider to Make Sure They Are Successful
In working with over 100 schools across the country on new approaches to integrating instruction and technology…
Reflections on Competency-Based and Blended Learning
Originally posted June 4, 2014 by Education Elements Last week, Justin DeLeon and I attended the…
Thoughts on Grain Size
As schools across the country engage with and implement proficiency-based learning, one of the first steps educators…
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…
Voices from the Field: Owning the LEARNING!
This article was originally published in the Reinventing Schools Coalition January newsletter. The RISC newsletter is designed to give…