When Grading Harms Student Learning
This post originally appeared at Edutopia on November 23, 2015. There are so many forces at work…
10 Tips for Developing Student Agency
This post originally appeared at Getting Smart on December 22, 2015. Agency is the capacity and propensity…
The 7Cs to College and Career Competency
This post originally appeared at Getting Smart on December 16, 2015. Marion is small urban center in…
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…
Avoiding “Learned Helplessness”
This post originally appeared at Edutopia on May 11, 2015. We all have students that just want…
5 Ways to Build a Student Agency in the Digital Age
This post originally appeared at Getting Smart on December 7, 2015. Recent research findings demonstrate a strong…
How is Personalized Learning Changing Lives? Ask Thomas Rooney.
This post originally appeared on the Foundation for Excellence in Education’s Ed Fly Blog on December 9,…
Teaching Differently in Competency-Based Schools
In December, Over-Tested and Under-Prepared: Using Competency Based Learning to Transform Our Schools by Bob Sornson will…
Over-Tested and Under-Prepared
In December, Over-Tested and Under-Prepared: Using Competency Based Learning to Transform Our Schools by Bob Sornson will…
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…