Thoughts on Grain Size
As schools across the country engage with and implement proficiency-based learning, one of the first steps educators…
Little Boxes: Common Assessments in the Age of Competency Education
I am a sucker for quality hip hop music and the art of sampling. There is something…
Education Innovation Fellowship: Key Learnings from Some of Detroit’s Competency-Based Learning Models
Posted on April 29, 2014 @ blendmylearning.com. For the past four months, the 19 public and public…
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…
The Paradox of Right the First Time: Transform Assessment Practices to Reflect Growth
Those of us experimenting with how we accurately measure student skills and abilities hit a wonderful fork…
A Tide of Understanding
Lately, I have been pondering how to help educators better visualize a progression of learning targets while…
Chewing on Learning Progressions: Some Food For Thought
One of the big pushes in our district (and many others throughout Maine) is customized learning: students…
Competency Education Supports Both Traditional and CTE Learning
Amanda is a typical high school student who loves spending time with her friends, participating in a…
The Right Work To Do
The boxes arrived last week. Those boxes stacked high, full of Iowa Assessment test booklets, answer sheets,…
The Perfect Grilled Cheese Sandwich and Honors in Our Competency-Based System
The Need For Change: Brian’s Uh-huh! Moment I was watching a cooking competition on the Food…