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A Review from an iNACOL Newbie

October 29, 2018

Ann Hadwen

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

Competency-Based Education Quality Principle #2: Commit to Equity

October 25, 2018

Chris Sturgis

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

Becoming an Effective Educator of English Learners: Job-Embedded, Competency-Based Professional Development for All Teachers

October 24, 2018

Laureen Avery

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Support Professional Learning

Customizing a System for Us by Us

October 24, 2018

Lisa Balata and Eric Lasky

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Evaluate Quality

“Find Your Tribe, Love Them Hard.” ~Danielle LaPorte

October 24, 2018

Brenda Vogds

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

Building Our Assessment Literacy

October 23, 2018

Chris Sturgis

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

CBE Problems of Practice: Granularity on Advance Upon Mastery is Too Small

October 22, 2018

Chris Sturgis

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

How Can States Transition to Student-Centered Learning?

October 22, 2018

Karla Esparza-Phillips

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

Nov 7 Webinar on Meeting Students Where They Are

October 22, 2018

Chris Sturgis

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

Competency-Based Education: The Break from Tradition that Our Schools Need

October 22, 2018

Brian Stack

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Rethink Instruction

The MTC Network: Reinventing How Students Prepare for College, Career, and Life

October 21, 2018

Stacy Caldwell

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Rethink Instruction

Competency Education Quality Principle #1: Purpose-Driven

October 19, 2018

Chris Sturgis

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Evaluate Quality

Education Domain Blog

Policies that Support Building Capacity to Lead Change to Advance Personalized, Competency-Based Education

October 19, 2018

Susan Patrick, Maria Worthen, Natalie Truong

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

When Equity and Student-Centered Learning Go Hand in Hand

October 18, 2018

Chris Sturgis

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

Competency Education at iNACOL18

October 18, 2018

Chris Sturgis

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

A Decade On: Lindsay Unified’s Personalized Learning Journey

October 17, 2018

Amanda Avallone

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

Education Domain Blog

Connecting Science with Learning and Human Development

October 16, 2018

Pamela Cantor

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

CBE Problems of Practice: Individualizing Learning

October 15, 2018

Chris Sturgis

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

CompetencyWorks Meetup at iNACOL18

October 15, 2018

Chris Sturgis

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

Why New Zealand? A Primer on the NZ Education System

October 12, 2018

Chris Sturgis

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

Education Domain Blog

Understanding How U.S. K-12 Accountability and Assessments are Too Often Conflated: What Policymakers Need to Know to Advance Student-Centered Learning Policies

October 12, 2018

Susan Patrick, Maria Worthen, Natalie Truong

Issue(s): Federal Policy, Create Space to Pilot Systems of Assessments, State Policy, Build Balanced Systems of Assessments

Quality Principles for Competency-Based Education

October 11, 2018

Chris Sturgis

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Evaluate Quality

Education Domain Blog

New CompetencyWorks Book Offers 16 Quality Design Principles for Competency-Based Education

October 11, 2018

Chris Sturgis, Katherine Casey

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Evaluate Quality

Education Domain Blog

An OECD Career in Innovation and Educational Futures

October 10, 2018

David Istance

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

Enjoying Learning or Completing Tasks? How Do You Explain Competency-Based Education?

October 9, 2018

Chris Sturgis

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Rethink Instruction