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Education Domain Blog

Webinar: Research on Race to the Top Blended STEM Initiative (Recording link)

January 24, 2014

Kathryn Kennedy

Issue(s): Issues in Practice

Can't Visit a Competency-Based School?

January 22, 2014

Chris Sturgis

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

Education Domain Blog

Webinar: Research on understanding quest-based learning: Game-based mechanics and community (Recording link)

January 22, 2014

Kathryn Kennedy

Issue(s): Issues in Practice

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

Education Domain Blog

Webinar: Research on attendance in K-12 online learning programs (Recording link)

January 13, 2014

Kathryn Kennedy

Issue(s): Issues in Practice

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

Education Domain Blog

Upcoming Research Webinar on NCVPS’s blended learning initative

January 10, 2014

Kathryn Kennedy

Issue(s): Issues in Practice

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

Education Domain Blog

Webinar: Research on Algebra 1 and Biology Teachers (Recording link)

January 8, 2014

Kathryn Kennedy

Issue(s): Issues in Practice, Rethink Instruction

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

Education Domain Blog

Data analytics in K-12 online learning – Guest blogger Dr. Joe Cozart

December 23, 2013

Dr. Joe Cozart

Issue(s): Issues in Practice

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

Education Domain Blog

Colorado Department of Education Research

December 16, 2013

Kathryn Kennedy

Issue(s): Issues in Practice