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Personalized Language Learning meets Proficiency-Based Credits in a Delaware Classroom

April 17, 2025

Tom Welch

Issue(s): Evaluate Quality, Rethink Instruction, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments, Activate Student Agency

Calibration Supports Quality for Flexible, Competency-Based Systems

April 3, 2025

Laurie Gagnon, Katie Wilczak

Issue(s): Redefine Student Success, Design for Educational Equity, Rethink Instruction, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments

Grounded in Their Competency Model, Boston Day and Evening Academy Evolves and Sustains

March 18, 2025

Laurie Gagnon

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Commit to Equity, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field

The Importance of Competency-Based Education and the Mentor Mindset for Equity

February 18, 2025

John Clemente

Issue(s): Redefine Student Success, Commit to Equity, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field, Engage Community

BFA Fairfax’s Proficiency-Based System Is a Learning System

January 27, 2025

Laurie Gagnon

Issue(s): Redefine Student Success, Rethink Instruction, Activate Student Agency

Competency-Based Education Across America

November 6, 2024

Laurie Gagnon

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field

Innovation in New Mexico: Project-Based Learning at ACE Leadership High School

August 27, 2024

Laurie Gagnon

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field

Getting Started With Real-World Learning at a Comprehensive High School

May 30, 2024

Chiara Wegener

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, How to Get Started, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field, Activate Student Agency, Engage Community

Empowering ELL Students and Myself: One New Hampshire Teacher’s Micro-Credential Experience

May 3, 2024

Caitlin Lomando

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction, Modernize and Diversify the Educator-Leader Workforce

A Handbook for Change: Empowering Learner Agency at TYWLS of Astoria

March 28, 2024

Greg Zimdahl

Issue(s): Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field, Activate Student Agency

Grounding in Community: The Aurora Team Visits EQA Schools in NOLA 

March 21, 2024

Laurie Gagnon, Chiara Wegener

Issue(s): Aurora Institute Symposium, Commit to Equity, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field

Finding My Future: My Big Picture Learning Experience

March 14, 2024

Izaiah Jones

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation, Rethink Instruction, Create Enabling Conditions for Competency-Based Education

Beyond Packaging: Manifesting Mastery-Based Learning in the Classroom at TYWLS of Astoria

February 29, 2024

Greg Zimdahl

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Support Professional Learning, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field

Mindsets and Resources for Unleashing Learner Agency

February 22, 2024

Derek Wenmoth, Marsha Jones

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Rethink Instruction, Activate Student Agency

The ACE CBE Model: Rethinking Curriculum for Depth and Engagement

January 18, 2024

Laurie Gagnon

Issue(s): Commit to Equity, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field

Using My Voice to Shape My High School

December 19, 2023

London Gray

Issue(s): Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field, Activate Student Agency

Science of Learning: The Engine that Powers Competency-Based Schools

December 12, 2023

Natalie Young

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Rethink Instruction, Create Enabling Conditions for Competency-Based Education

Together We Shine Brighter: A Teacher’s Insights from #Aurora23

November 17, 2023

Dylan Shelofsky

Issue(s): Aurora Institute Symposium, Lead Change and Innovation, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field

Flexible, Competency-Based Learning in Action at COA

October 12, 2023

Laurie Gagnon, Adam Aronson

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field, Activate Student Agency

Connecting the CBE Design Principles with a Defensible Body of Evidence

October 10, 2023

Karin Hess

Issue(s): Rethink Instruction, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments

The Evolution of a Competency-Based Academic Model at Chelsea Opportunity Academy

October 5, 2023

Laurie Gagnon

Issue(s): Lead Change and Innovation, Rethink Instruction, Activate Student Agency, Design for Educational Equity

A New Framework to IMPACT Building a Defensible Body of Evidence

October 3, 2023

Karin Hess

Issue(s): Rethink Instruction, Create Balanced Systems of Assessments, Activate Student Agency

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Competency-Based Education (CBE), According to an AI Language Model

September 21, 2023

Alyssa Weaver, ChatGPT

Issue(s): Lead Change and Innovation, Rethink Instruction

It's Time to Level the Post-Secondary Playing Field: Six Principles for Building a Career Pathways Program

September 1, 2023

Melissa Olson

Issue(s): Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field, Activate Student Agency

Portrait of a Graduate: A Gateway to Competency-Based Learning

August 24, 2023

Briana Medina, Khamiah Alderman

Issue(s): Rethink Instruction, Learn Lessons from the Field