Let Educators Drive: Gradual Release to Learner-Centered Design
Image: Allison Shelley This is the third in a series of blog posts focused on how The…
Designing Data-Driven Personalized Pathways for Professional Learning
This is the second in a series of blog posts focused on how The Center in Iowa…
A Roadmap for Personalized, Competency-Based Professional Learning
This is the first in a series of three blog posts focused on how The Center is…
Federal and State Policy Updates Published September 2021
Federal Updates Additional State COVID-19 Relief Spending Plans Approved by the U.S. Department of Education – The…
Federal and State Policy Updates Published August 2021
Federal Updates U.S. Department of Education Approves State Plans for Use of American Rescue Plan Funds to...
Update on Iowa: Multi-Stakeholder Leadership
Iowa was one of the states that charged out of the gates toward competency-based education in 2012…
Competency-Based Education Task Forces: A State Policy Mechanism to Foster Personalized Learning by Creating Dialog, Surfacing Barriers and Providing Solutions
This post originally appeared at iNACOL on March 23, 2016. Transitioning from a traditional seat time based…
Update from Iowa
Thanks to Sandra Dop at the Department of Education for helping me understand how competency education is…
Going BIG in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids is only twenty minutes down the road from Iowa City, a center of the educational…
State Policy: Resources for Getting Started
Looking for a few resources to send state policy makers to get started on competency education? Here…