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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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Why My Competency-Based School Failed – And How It Can Help Yours To Succeed

February 10, 2014

Stephanie Krauss

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

Do Learning Progressions Have to Be Linear?

February 5, 2014

Caroline Messenger

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Rethink Instruction

A K-12 Federal Policy Framework for Competency Education

February 3, 2014

Chris Sturgis

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

Three Quick Thoughts About Personalized Learning Plans

January 29, 2014

Chris Sturgis

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Rethink Instruction

Check Out What is Happening in New England

January 27, 2014

Chris Sturgis

Systematic Measurement of Progress Toward Competency

January 24, 2014

Bob Sornson

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Rethink Instruction

Can't Visit a Competency-Based School?

January 22, 2014

Chris Sturgis

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

Vermont Breakaway on Proficiency-Based Policy

January 20, 2014

Chris Sturgis

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

Oklahoma Considering Proficiency-Based Promotion

January 20, 2014

Chris Sturgis

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

Piecing it Together

January 16, 2014

Bill Zima

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, How to Get Started

Progress and Proficiency: Redesigning Grading for Competency Education

January 15, 2014

Chris Sturgis

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

Our School's Pathway to Competency-Based Learning

January 14, 2014

Jonathan Vander Els

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

Going Higher and Deeper

January 11, 2014

Chris Sturgis

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

Watch Out for Wyoming

January 10, 2014

Chris Sturgis

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

Whose Classroom Is This? The Importance of Students’ Voice in Creating a Writer’s Workshop

January 9, 2014

Kaili Phillips

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

Practitioner Implications in Competency Education: An Interview with Rose Colby

January 8, 2014

Anna Fazekas

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

Curriculum Models Need to Preserve Standards, Not Break Them Apart

January 7, 2014

Caroline Gordon Messenger, Ph.M. and Marc Pardee

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Rethink Instruction

Deadlines Matter: Debunking the Myth That Standards-Based Grading Means No Deadlines

January 6, 2014

Brian Stack

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Evaluate Quality, Rethink Instruction

Getting Started and Scaling Competency-Based Education

January 3, 2014

Andrea Stewart

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, How to Get Started

Competency Education: The Solution to Retention

December 30, 2013

Rose Colby

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Rethink Instruction

What Can We Learn From Our Foreign Language Teachers?

December 23, 2013

Chris Sturgis

Issue(s): State Policy, Base Learning on Mastery Not Seat Time

Proficiency-Based Education Meet-Up in Oregon

December 18, 2013

Chris Sturgis

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

Is Mastery a 3 or a 4 or Something Far Beyond That?

December 17, 2013

Chris Sturgis

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

APEX Academy: A Diploma Plus School

December 16, 2013

Chris Sturgis

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