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Building 21’s Open Competencies, Rubrics, and Professional Development Activities

December 23, 2019

Thomas Gaffey

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, How to Get Started, Lead Change and Innovation, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments

The Challenges of a Large, Diverse School District and the Promises of Performance Assessment Micro-credentials

December 2, 2019

Justin Elliott

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Commit to Equity, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments, Learn Lessons from the Field

But What About The Test?

November 25, 2019

Christy Kingham

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Rethink Instruction, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments, Learn Lessons from the Field, Create Enabling Conditions for Competency-Based Education

CompetencyWorks Releases Report Updating Definition of Competency-Based Education

November 14, 2019

Eliot Levine, Susan Patrick

Issue(s): State Policy, Issues in Practice, How to Get Started, Commit to Equity, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments, Activate Student Agency, Design for Educational Equity

Education Domain Blog

CompetencyWorks Releases Report Updating Definition of Competency-Based Education

November 14, 2019

Eliot Levine, Susan Patrick

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Commit to Equity, Rethink Instruction, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments, Activate Student Agency

Student Thinking Made Visible: Assessing Transferable Skills with Brief Performance Tasks

November 12, 2019

Eliot Levine

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments

Education Domain Blog

Eliot Levine Shares News on the Definition of Competency-Based Education in the Latest Innovation Spotlight Podcast

November 12, 2019

DeQuendre Bertrand

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Commit to Equity, Rethink Instruction, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments, Activate Student Agency

Keeping Students at the Center with Culturally Relevant Performance Assessments

July 29, 2019

Maya Kaul

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Commit to Equity, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments, Design for Educational Equity

Shifting the English Department to Competency-Based Assessment

June 20, 2019

Eliot Levine

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments

Building Our Assessment Literacy

October 23, 2018

Chris Sturgis

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments

AASA Explores Competency-Based Education Grading

March 6, 2018

Chris Sturgis

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments

Sign on to the 10 Principles of Building a High Quality System of Assessments

February 16, 2018

Chris Sturgis

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments

School Consortium Proposes a Better Transcript

October 2, 2017

Tom Vander Ark

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments

Education Domain Blog

Refining the Instructional Model and Enhancing the Instructional Cycle

March 14, 2017

Chris Sturgis

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, How to Get Started, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments

Education Domain Blog

Configuring the Instruction and Assessment Model

January 4, 2017

Chris Sturgis

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, How to Get Started, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments

Education Domain Blog

The Power of Grades

December 19, 2016

Julianna Charles Brown, Meg Stentz

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments

Refining the Instructional Model and Enhancing the Instructional Cycle

December 13, 2016

Chris Sturgis

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, How to Get Started, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments

Configuring the Instruction and Assessment Model

October 17, 2016

Chris Sturgis

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, How to Get Started, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments

WestEd's Student Agency in Assessment & Learning Project

September 16, 2016

Tony Siddall

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments, Activate Student Agency

Separating the Facts from the Myths in the Competency-Based High School Transcript

September 12, 2016

Brian Stack

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments

Will Eliminating the “F” Eliminate Bad School Design?

July 9, 2016

Julia Freeland

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments

What Does it REALLY Mean to Do Standards-Based Grading? (Part 2)

June 28, 2016

Chris Sturgis

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments

What Does it REALLY Mean to Do Standards-Based Grading? (Part 1)

June 27, 2016

Chris Sturgis

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments

When Grading Harms Student Learning

February 23, 2016

Andrew Miller

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments

Collecting a "Body of Evidence"

January 28, 2016

Jonathan Vander Els, Jill Lizier, and Terry Bolduc

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments