Celebrate the Flops (Then They Don’t Hurt So Much): 7 SEL Mindset Tips
This post originally appeared at Getting Smart on July 13, 2016. Our 15-year-old son loves to flip….
Supporting Student Agency Through Student Led Conferences
This post originally appeared at Getting Smart on July 24, 2016. In a world where young people…
Student Ownership of Non-Curricular Cognitive Competencies
This is the fourth and final article in a series specific to the developing understanding of skills…
Developing a Competency-Based ELA Classroom
This post originally appeared at Springpoint on June 1, 2016. When I started my journey at Denver…
Moving from Theory to Practice: Designing a New Competency-Based High School
This post originally appeared at Springpoint on May 31, 2016. Every school leader wants to create their…
Classroom Instruction of Skills and Dispositions
This is the third in a series of articles specific to the developing understanding of skills and…
10 Simple Lesson Plans for Scaffolding Student-Led Projects
This post originally appeared at Getting Smart on January 17, 2016. When working with my high school…
Collecting a “Body of Evidence”
This is the second in a series of articles specific to the developing understanding of skills and…
The Overwhelming Act of Assessing Writing in a CBE School
If you’ve ever been an English teacher, you know what it’s like to teach writing to 95…
The Power of Choice: Increasing Novel Reading From 21 Percent to 87 Percent
For those of us who have always taught with an end-goal in mind, competency-based education isn’t that…