Portrait of a Graduate: A Gateway to Competency-Based Learning
This blog post reviews the Next Generation Learning Challenge (NGLC)’s new resource, How Students Develop the Skills…
A (Self) Portrait of a Graduate
“How do you grade art?” As a high school visual art teacher, this was the question I…
Empowering Community Progress: Integrating Open Principles in Education
Education plays a pivotal role in driving community progress, development, and local democracy. In our upcoming book,…
Competency-Based Education Across America
This post compiles links to more than 200 CompetencyWorks blog posts from our site visits and interviews…
From Good to Great, Initial to Ideal: A Way to Improve Exhibitions and Other Performance Assessments
Several things brought me back to this post by Adam Watson about bringing performance assessments from good...
Diving into a Deep Blue(grass) Sea of Innovation, Part Two: Early Lessons Learned When Implementing Multi-District Deeper Learning in Kentucky
In Part One, I discussed how I joined a Kentucky educational cooperative’s newly launched Deeper Learning Team…
Diving into a Deep Blue (grass) Sea of Innovation, Part One: How Educational Cooperatives and Deeper Learning Teams are Poised to Help Transform Kentucky Education
As I began my eighteenth year in education, I felt ready for a new challenge. How could…
The Quiet Revolution in Education: Building a More Effective, Personalized, Future-Focused Education System in Kentucky
The stories we hear these days about education are largely focused either on the culture wars–what gets…
Leading for Deeper Learning in Kentucky
This post originally appeared at 2Revolutions on August 29, 2022. Phase 1: Danville, KY Several years ago,…
A District-wide Personalized Professional Learning System to Advance Competency-Based Education
The Shelby County Public Schools (SCPS), a 13-school district near Louisville, Kentucky, have been transitioning to competency-based…