May CompetencyWorks Catch-Up

Here are the highlights from May 2016 on CompetencyWorks. Happy reading. And let us know if you have questions you want us to delve into!

SITE VISITS AND CASE STUDIES

Mastery-Based Learning in Connecticut

• Part 1 – Creating Meaningful Instruction through Mastery-Based Learning in New Haven, CT
• Part 2 – Windsor Locks: Starting with Pedagogy
• Part 3 – Naugatuck Public Schools: Making Meaning for Teachers with Mastery-Based Learning
• Part 4 – Superintendents Leading the Way in Connecticut
• Part 5 – New Haven Academy: Pedagogy Comes First

Montpelier Public Schools

• A Conversation with the Two Mikes from Montpelier

Providence After School Alliance (PASA)

• PASA Forges Ahead with Competency-Based Expanded Learning Opportunities

PRINCIPAL, SUPERINTENDENT, AND TEACHER PERSPECTIVES

Culture Comes First by Courtney Belolan

How I Learned What Proficiency-Based Teaching and Learning Really Means by Kate Gardoqui

EDUCATOR RESOURCES

What’s New in K-12 Competency Education? by Natalie Abel

What’s New in Competency-Based Higher Education? by Natalie Abel

Learner-Centered Tip of the Week: Refurbishing for Personalized Learning by Courtney Belolan

REPORTS

Seizing the Moment

REFLECTION

Meeting Students Where They Are: Accountability Paradox (Part 1)

Meeting Students Where They Are: Academic Domains (Part 2)

How are We Doing Implementing Student-Centered Learning?

POLICY UPDATES

South Carolina Overview

Update on Maine’s Proficiency-Based Diploma Policy

Laying the Groundwork for Proficiency-Based Learning in Rhode Island

Promising State Policies

AROUND THE WEB

Donnell-Kay Foundation

• How Might We Ensure Quality and Value Across a Larger Landscape of Learning? By Colleen Broderick

New England Secondary School Consortium

• Not Your Grandpa’s Voc Ed: Rigorous Career and Technical Education in Henry County, Georgia by Contributing Author

iNACOL

• Moving from Seat-Time to Competency-Based Credits in State Policy: Ensuring All Students Develop Mastery by Dale Frost

Getting Smart

• 5 Strategies for Fostering Independence in a PBL Classroom by James Fester
• ESSA: From Compliance to Opportunity by Samantha Tankersley

EdSurge

• Why Student Voice Means More Than Choice by Keaton Wadzinski

Educause

• Credentials Reform: How Technology and the Changing Needs of the Workforce Will Create the Higher Education System of the Future by Jamie Merisotis

LinkedIn Pulse

• What Happens When Students Are in the Driver’s Seat?