CompetencyWorks | April 2018

April 26, 2018


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From the Field

Designing for Equity

Educator Capacity Issue Brief

Agents of Their Own Success

10 Principles for High Quality Assessments

The Practice Base for How We Learn


Dear Colleagues: 

CompetencyWorks is posting a series on McComb School District in Mississippi that is on a path toward personalized learning. McComb is one of the few districts that is currently implementing personalized learning, competency-based education and blended learning simultaneously.  

  1. Personalizing the Learning in McComb, Mississippi
  2. McComb’s Six Pillars of Student-Centered Learning
  3. McComb’s Strategic Planning Begins with the Community
  4. Piloting Change in McComb
  5. Empowering Scholars at McComb’s Summit Elementary
  6. Starting with the Kindergarteners in McComb
  7. Starting the Journey to CBE at Otken Elementary School
  8. Supporting Practitioners in McComb

CompetencyWorks published Designing for Equity: Leveraging Competency-Based Education to Ensure All Students Succeed, which offers a framework of strategies for personalized, competency-based education to ensure a more equitable K-12 education system. Districts and schools can use the principles within this report to develop an equity agenda within their personalized, competency-based systems. An example of how districts can drive toward equity is described by Joe Ellison, principal at Martha Layne Collins High School. He discusses using intentional practices in hiring staff for the purpose of cultural responsiveness in Hiring for Cultural Responsiveness – A Necessary Consideration.

Kathleen McClaskey, founder of Make Learning Personal, has a written a three-part blog series that explores how the Universal Design for Learning can strengthen teaching and reinforce a culture where every learner feels valued and can be successful.

  1. Understanding the Pedagogy of a Learning Science to Nurture an Inclusive Learning Culture
  2. Discover the Learner – Building the Skills of Agency and Self-Advocacy using the UDL Lens
  3. Understanding and Meeting Learners Where They Are using the UDL Lens


Chris Sturgis, MetisNet

Susan Patrick, iNACOL

Natalie Abel, iNACOL

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