Competency-Based Education: The Break from Tradition that Our Schools Need
At this year’s iNACOL 2018 Symposium, I will have two opportunities to share my thoughts and experiences…
How One New Hampshire District is Leveraging Success Skills in a Competency-Based System
By Jonathan G. Vander Els, Director of Innovative Projects for the New Hampshire Learning Initiative and Sarah…
What’s New: What’s Happening in State Policy
This article reviews some of the new state policy resources and highlights the types of discussion and…
Highlighting Deeper Learning Competencies in New Hampshire
It is hard to argue the importance that being a strong collaborator, an articulate communicator, a self-directed…
Our Quest to Personalize Competency-Based Learning in New Hampshire
This article was was originally posted on January 9, 2018 at Education Week in the Next Generation for…
Three Lessons Learned from PACE
Parker Varney Elementary School in Manchester, NH has been involved in the PACE initiative since 2015. (You can…
PACE Sees Early Evidence of Student Achievement Gains
Please note: This article was corrected on September 6th to accurately reflect the findings on PACE. According…
Amidst Opioid Addiction, Plummeting Morale, One Elementary School Reinvents Itself
This post and all photos originally appeared at EdSurge on June 19, 2017. When you enter Parker-Varney…
Adult Learning: Creating Buy-in
This post and graphics originally appeared at 2Revolutions on May 17, 2017. Designing and facilitating high-quality professional…
Goodbye ABCs: How One State is Moving Beyond Grade Levels and Graded Assessments
This post originally appeared at EdSurge on May 16, 2017. The term “grades” has become almost taboo…