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Drawing on lessons learned by innovators and early adopters, this blog shares original research, knowledge, and a variety of perspectives from across the field of K-12 competency-based education.

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Update on Iowa: Multi-Stakeholder Leadership

August 1, 2018

Chris Sturgis

Issue(s): State Policy, Create Enabling Conditions for Competency-Based Education

July 2018 CompetencyWorks Catch-Up

August 1, 2018

Chris Sturgis

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

The Day in a Life Student in a Personalized, Competency-Based School

July 31, 2018

Chris Sturgis

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

Increasing Credits Earned at Initial Point High School

July 30, 2018

Chris Sturgis

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

Accreditation: What is the Department of Education Thinking?

July 30, 2018

Alana Dunagan

Issue(s): Federal Policy, Leverage Career and Technical Education

Three Misconceptions of Competency-Based Education

July 25, 2018

Stephen Johnson

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

Moving Forward toward Mastery at Kuna School District

July 24, 2018

Chris Sturgis

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

35 Competency-Based Education Advocacy & Research Organizations

July 23, 2018

Getting Smart Staff

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

Finding Synergy at Kuna Middle School

July 17, 2018

Chris Sturgis

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

Mastery-Based Learning in Idaho

July 16, 2018

Chris Sturgis

Issue(s): State Policy, Create Enabling Conditions for Competency-Based Education

Summer Reading on Competency-Based Education

July 11, 2018

Chris Sturgis

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

What if... We Had Graduate Profiles for Elementary and Middle School?

July 10, 2018

Chris Sturgis

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation

Educator-Only Leadership Forum on Competency Education

July 9, 2018

Chris Sturgis

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

Webinar on Equity in Competency Education

July 9, 2018

Chris Sturgis

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Commit to Equity

ACT, Leader in Measurement, Shifts Focus to Student Success

July 3, 2018

Tom Vander Ark

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation

What’s Happening with Competency-Based Transcripts and Rethinking College Admissions in the United States

July 2, 2018

Natalie Truong and Susan Patrick

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation

June 2018 CompetencyWorks Catch-Up

July 1, 2018

Chris Sturgis

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

Helpful Tools for Providing Effective Competency-Based Education

June 27, 2018

Getting Smart Staff

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation

A Learner Bill of Rights

June 26, 2018

Chris Sturgis

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

How to Participate in the “Professional Learning and Development for Competency-Based Education” Technical Advisory Group (TAG)

June 26, 2018

Katherine Casey

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

The Rhetoric and the Reality of Student Outcomes in Competency-Based Schools

June 25, 2018

Chris Sturgis

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

What’s New in Competency-Based Higher Education?

June 25, 2018

Ashley Jones

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

Stealing a Page from Disruption to Transform Accreditation

June 21, 2018

Michael Horn

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Lead Change and Innovation

RISE (Revolutionary Individualized Student Experience)

June 20, 2018

Chris Sturgis

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

What's New in K-12 Competency-Based Education?

June 19, 2018

Ashley Jones

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