The Shift to Competencies: A Practical Approach
Welcome Back! I hope you all thoroughly enjoyed the time that you had during the summer months….
Competencies Build Better Assessment Practices
Competencies have the potential to truly shift assessment practices in the classroom. If you took a sampling…
The Creative Process — Spark It!
Instruction of the creative process is primarily the domain of arts educators, but application of the creative…
Assessment of Learning with Competency-Based Grading
This past spring, two members of my administrative team at Sanborn Regional High School in Kingston, New…
Changing our Bumper-Sticker Message: My Student is More Proficient Than Your Student!
On a recent walk, I was stopped by my neighbor who had a complaint about her son’s…
Competency-Based Instruction & Assessment: Building the Framework
As the Rochester School District embarks upon its K-12 Full-Competency Based System of Instruction and Assessment, we…
Re-Learning and Reassessment
While that last planning year was filled with excitement and adventure, we hadn’t anticipated the journey that…
Assessment at the Center
Student-centered instruction must be built around the feedback and assessments that are given to students while they…
Five Ideas for Building a System of Support
Over the last few weeks, I have been conducting interviews with national experts who are working to…
An Engineering Kind of Mind
It was during my five-year-old’s visit to pre-calculus class in my second year out of college and…